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One way empty legs between Houston and San Antonio, 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.
Houston Hobby sends 141 departures to 58 destinations in our record, and San Antonio is joint sixth of those at five listings. The sector is about 165 nautical miles and the listings put it at 42 to 48 minutes in the air, which is less time than the drive to either airport takes at the wrong hour.
Hobby's board is a Texas board. Its four Texas destinations in our record are Dallas at nineteen listings, Austin at sixteen, Fort Worth at six and San Antonio at five. Those four Texas corridors are 46 of Hobby's 141 departures between them, nearly a third of everything that leaves it empty, so the aircraft repositioning out of Hobby are mostly going somewhere else in the state rather than out of it. San Antonio is the smallest of the four and its five legs fall on only three dates, which is the one thing to hold against this corridor.
What earns this corridor a page rather than a line in a table is that every leg we have recorded on it carries a published price. That is true of only five corridors on this entire site, and two of the other four are also Texas, Dallas to Houston and Austin to Houston. The reason is the operator mix rather than anything about the route. Lone Star Aviators publishes a price, a tail number and a block time on all 418 of its listings, Jet Linx Aviation on 225 of its 227, and Jetvia on 1,648 of its 1,743.
With all five figures visible, the useful finding is that the price order runs opposite to the cabin order. The cheapest leg on the corridor is also the joint largest: a nine seat Cessna Citation Excel at USD 4,000. A seven seat Bombardier Learjet 60 is USD 4,800, and a nine seat Gulfstream G200 is USD 5,000. Three operators, the same 165 nautical miles, and a spread of USD 1,000 from top to bottom. On a sector this short the aircraft is not what sets the price, and these five figures are the evidence rather than an opinion.
All five movements fell inside eight days, 25 September to 2 October 2026, on three dates. Three of the five were one operator's aircraft on a single day: Jetvia listed three different Learjet 60s, tails N420KV, N448GL and N696RB, all for 28 September and all at USD 4,800. The other two were Jet Linx Aviation on 25 September and Lone Star Aviators on 2 October.
Nobody gives notice on this corridor. Four of the five first reached us three days before departure, and the fifth, the Learjet 60 on tail N420KV, appeared on the morning of the day it flew. All five have now flown and nothing on this corridor was on the board when this page was built, so the route alert below is the only thing that will catch the next one.
Approximate corridor between Houston and San Antonio. Operators fly the sector direct; the airports each listing uses are shown on the flight itself.
Hobby is the Houston field on every leg here, and it is the close one. George Bush Intercontinental sits north of the city and is a different drive entirely, so a listing that says only Houston is worth checking. Houston Executive sends two more listings to San Antonio, which makes three Houston area fields to ask about. At the far end there is no choice to make: San Antonio International is the only San Antonio field in our record and it takes all five of these.
Reading the record.
| Departure | Aircraft | Seats | Operator's published price | Status |
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Every leg we have recorded between Houston and San Antonio, 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.
All five recorded legs carry the operator's own published price for the whole aircraft, and they sit within USD 1,000 of each other. USD 4,000 on a nine seat Cessna Citation Excel, tail N883SC, from Lone Star Aviators on 2 October. USD 4,800 on each of three Bombardier Learjet 60s from Jetvia on 28 September. USD 5,000 on a nine seat Gulfstream G200, tail N280LT, from Jet Linx Aviation on 25 September.
Those are whole aircraft figures, not per seat and not a starting point. Read them as what three separate operators thought a 42 minute positioning flight across Texas was worth inside one eight day stretch, which is a more useful number than a quote on a corridor where nobody publishes anything at all.
The Citation Excel being both the cheapest and the joint largest cabin is the part worth carrying into a conversation. If you are quoted well above USD 5,000 for this sector on a light or midsize jet, you have something concrete to point at and you can ask what accounts for the difference.
San Antonio back to Houston is three listings on two dates in our record, which is not enough for a page of its own, so there is no reverse direction to set these figures against. Ask the operator whether the departure time can still move, which Houston field the aircraft is actually leaving from, and what happens if the paid flight that created this empty leg falls through.
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