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One way empty legs between Houston and Dallas, 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.
Dallas is the busiest destination Houston produces on our board and it is not close. Of the 56 departures we have recorded from Houston, 13 went to Dallas, against six for Las Vegas and five for Austin. The sector is 210 nautical miles, short enough that a corporate aircraft flies it and turns straight round, which is what leaves the return empty.
Eleven of the thirteen legs come from a single operator, Lone Star Aviators, which entered our record on 8 September 2026. It 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. That is why the table below is full where most of our route pages have to leave columns empty.
Those eleven legs are flown by five different airframes, not one aircraft working through its calendar. N567RW, a Cessna Citation Ultra, accounts for four of them. N813JA, a Bombardier Challenger 604, and N590MC, a Bombardier Challenger 300, take two each, and two Pilatus PC-12 NGs, N946RB and N242SG, take the rest.
The other two legs are older and come from a different operator. Thrive Aviation listed a Cessna Citation Longitude on 17 and 18 August 2026, both since flown, and neither carried a price, a seat count or an airport code. So the corridor is not one operator alone, but almost everything you can actually read on this page comes from one.
Mostly on a forward calendar rather than at short notice. Eleven of the thirteen entered our record on 8 and 9 September 2026 with departure dates running from 10 September to 10 December, which is an operator publishing three months of repositioning in one go.
The two August legs behaved the other way. The 17 August leg was published on 5 August, twelve days ahead, and the 18 August leg on 13 August, five days 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 Dallas. Operators fly the sector direct; the airports each listing uses are shown on the flight itself.
The listings name a city and then a specific field, and they do not all use the same one. Ten of the eleven coded legs run Hobby to Love Field, which is the pair the computed distance on this page uses. The two Thrive Aviation legs name 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, so confirm it before you plan the drive.
Reading the record.
| Departure | Aircraft | Seats | Operator's published price | Status |
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Every leg we have recorded between Houston and Dallas, 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.
Eleven of the thirteen carry a published price and they fall into two clear tiers. The Cessna Citation Ultra is listed at USD 2,900 on all four of its legs, the Pilatus PC-12 NG at USD 2,400 and USD 2,600, and both the Bombardier Challenger 300 and the Challenger 604 at USD 5,900. Every one of those is the operator's figure for the whole aircraft, not a per seat fare.
Seat counts are published on the same eleven: seven on the Citation Ultra and the PC-12 NG, nine on the Challenger 300 and ten on the Challenger 604. The two Thrive Aviation legs publish neither a price nor a seat count, which is why two rows in the table read Not stated across three columns.
Published block times run from 48 minutes to 1 hour 24 minutes over the same 210 nautical miles. The three longest are the PC-12 NG legs, so the aircraft on the listing changes the time in the air by more than half an hour on a sector this short.
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 Houston and Dallas fields the listing actually uses, since five different airports appear across this corridor.
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