One way empty legs between Houston and Austin, exactly as the operators list them. Prices are the operator's own, not a marked up quote.
Straight line distance between the two cities. Actual routing and flight time depend on the aircraft and the airports.
Austin is the third busiest destination Houston produces on our board. Of the 56 departures we have recorded from Houston, thirteen went to Dallas, six to Las Vegas and five to Austin. The sector is 105 nautical miles.
Four of the five legs come from Lone Star Aviators, which entered our record on 8 September 2026 and is the only operator in our whole collection that publishes a price, a seat count, a block time and a tail number on every listing it makes. All 90 of its rows carry all four, which is why four rows of the table below are complete and one is nearly empty.
The fifth is older and comes from a different kind of source. Thrive Aviation listed a Gulfstream G450 for 13 August 2026, since flown, with no price, no seat count, no block time and no airport code at either end. Thrive is the largest single source in our record at 644 listings and it publishes an aircraft type and nothing else on any of them, so the corridor is not one operator alone but almost everything you can read on this page comes from one.
Northbound is the dearer direction on the same aircraft. N242SG, a Pilatus PC-12 NG, is USD 1,800 on all three of its legs into Austin and USD 1,400 on all three going the other way. N567RW, a Cessna Citation Ultra, is USD 2,300 into Austin and USD 2,000 into Houston. If your dates are open either way, the reverse page is the cheaper read.
Mostly on a forward calendar. The four Lone Star Aviators legs all entered our record on 8 September 2026, with departures running from 13 September to 13 November, which is an operator publishing two months of repositioning in one go.
The fifth behaved the other way. The Thrive Aviation leg was published on 12 August for a 13 August departure, one day ahead. Both patterns exist on this corridor, and the route alert is the only way to catch the short notice kind.
Approximate corridor between Houston and Austin. Operators fly the sector direct; the airports each listing uses are shown on the flight itself.
Four of the five listings name a field at both ends and they do not all use the same pair: three run West Houston to Bergstrom and one runs Hobby to Austin Executive. The computed distance on this page uses West Houston to Bergstrom, the pair on three of the four. The fifth listing, the Thrive Aviation Gulfstream G450, names only the two cities and publishes no field at either end. On a sector this short the airport at each end decides more of your door to door time than the flight does.
Reading the record.
| Departure | Aircraft | Seats | Operator's published price | Status |
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Every leg we have recorded between Houston and Austin, in either direction, since 30 July 2026, whether it is still on the board or not. A leg leaves the board when the operator stops publishing it, and we cannot tell from outside whether it was sold or withdrawn, so these are counts of what was listed, not of what flew.
One bar per calendar month, from the first month in our record to the furthest date an operator has published so far. Grey bars are months already past, gold is this month and the months ahead. A blank month is a month we have no record for, and before August 2026 that means we were not yet recording. The months ahead hold only what operators have published up to now, and most empty legs appear days or weeks before departure, so those bars will keep growing. The shape says how far ahead operators publish, not how busy a month will be.
| Airports flown | Legs recorded | On the board | Priced | Last seen | |
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Each row is a pair of airports as the operator named them, in the direction flown. Both directions of the corridor are counted. An operator that names only the city leaves us the city, which is why some rows are city names.
The price on a card is the operator's figure for the whole aircraft. What that comes to per seat, across every type we see, is in how much an empty leg private jet costs.
Four of the five carry a published price: USD 1,800 on each of the three Pilatus PC-12 NG legs and USD 2,300 on the single Cessna Citation Ultra. Both are the operator's figure for the whole aircraft, not a per seat fare. The Thrive Aviation Gulfstream G450 publishes nothing at all, which is why one row of the table reads Not stated across three columns.
Seats are seven on all four Lone Star Aviators legs and are not published on the fifth. All four carry a tail number and two airframes cover them, N242SG three times and N567RW once, so this is two aircraft rather than four.
Published block times are 54 minutes on the three Pilatus legs and 42 minutes on the Citation Ultra. Each is six minutes longer than the same airframe's published time going the other way, on the same pair of cities.
Ask the operator three things: whether the departure time can still move, what happens if the paid flight that created this empty leg falls through, and which Austin field you are landing at, since Bergstrom and Austin Executive are on opposite sides of the city.
Houston to Austin empty legs are posted days ahead, not months. Leave your email and we watch both directions for you, Houston to Austin and Austin to Houston, and send you nothing else.