One way empty legs between Houston and Fort Worth, 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.
This is the fourth busiest sector out of Houston in our record and the third busiest into Fort Worth, which is what makes it a corridor rather than a coincidence. Houston produces seventy departures to thirty two destinations and five of them come here, behind Dallas on fourteen, Austin on eight and Las Vegas on six. Fort Worth takes sixty eight arrivals from thirty one origins, with College Station on eight and Austin on seven ahead of Houston on five.
Three operators appear on five legs, which is rare on a Texas corridor this short. Lone Star Aviators lists three of them, Jet OUT one and Thrive Aviation one, and the three carry five different aircraft types between them. Nothing here is a shuttle.
The published prices rise with the cabin, in a straight line. USD 2,900 for a Cessna Citation V with seven seats, USD 5,900 for a Bombardier Challenger 300 with nine, USD 6,600 for a Bombardier Challenger 604 with ten. All three are Lone Star Aviators listings, and that operator publishes a price on every one of its 141 listings in our record. Neither of the other two operators here publishes a price anywhere: Thrive Aviation on none of its 824 listings, Jet OUT on none of its 759.
The aircraft reposition inside the Texas triangle rather than to it, and we publish the other three sides. There are pages for Houston to Dallas, Dallas to Houston, Austin to Houston, Houston to Austin, College Station to Fort Worth and Fort Worth to College Station, and the reverse of this one, Fort Worth to Houston, is already live.
Thinly and at both ends of the calendar. Five legs is a trickle rather than a schedule: one in August, one in early September, two in the middle of September and one as far out as 26 November 2026.
The three priced legs all entered our record on the same day, 11 September 2026, one of them for a departure four days later and one for a departure eleven weeks later. The two unpriced legs were posted two days and nine days ahead. So the operator that publishes figures also publishes furthest in advance here, which means the prices you can see are the ones with the most notice.
Approximate corridor between Houston and Fort Worth. Operators fly the sector direct; the airports each listing uses are shown on the flight itself.
One of the five listings names no airport at either end: it gives the two city names and stops, which is that operator's habit throughout our data. The other four name Fort Worth Meacham, and three of those leave from Hobby against one from David Wayne Hooks. On a flight of under an hour the field you leave from decides most of your travelling time, so confirm it before planning 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 Fort Worth, 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.
Three of the five carry a published price, from USD 2,900 to USD 6,600 for the whole aircraft. Those figures are for the whole aircraft and not per seat, and they track cabin size closely enough that the Citation V at USD 2,900 and the Challenger 604 at USD 6,600 are really two different products rather than two prices for one journey.
The other two say price on request, and that is the operator rather than a gap in our collection: neither Thrive Aviation nor Jet OUT publishes a price on any listing anywhere in our record.
Block times are published on the three priced legs and run from 48 minutes for the Challenger 300 to 54 minutes for the Citation V and the Challenger 604, against a great circle of 220 nautical miles. The other two legs publish no block time, and one of them no seat count either.
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 field you are leaving from, since Hobby and David Wayne Hooks are on opposite sides of the city.
Houston to Fort Worth empty legs are posted days ahead, not months. Leave your email and we watch both directions for you, Houston to Fort Worth and Fort Worth to Houston, and send you nothing else.