Las Vegas

Empty leg flights from Las Vegas

Las Vegas is the single busiest airport on this list, and it is a base as much as a destination. Operators keep aircraft here because demand is dense and predictable, and every paid charter out of the city leaves an empty leg behind it. That is why the board usually shows more leaving than arriving, and why there are more empty leg flights here than anywhere else we track.

The corridors run west and into the mountains: Las Vegas to Aspen most often, then Reno, Van Nuys for Los Angeles, Denver and Hailey for Sun Valley. The live counts below are read from the current board.

Which Las Vegas airport

• Harry Reid International (LAS) — handles most business aviation through dedicated terminals on the west side, minutes from the Strip.
• Henderson Executive (HND) — quieter and quicker on the ground, about twenty minutes south.
• North Las Vegas (VGT) — light aircraft only, and the closest field to the north of the valley.

Volume here means choice: on a city with this much traffic you are far more likely to find a leg near your date, and short notice works better than almost anywhere else on the list.

What an empty leg from Las Vegas costs

Where an operator publishes a price it is shown exactly as listed, as a whole-aircraft figure rather than a per-seat fare. Where none is published the card says so rather than estimating. Our guide to the most affordable way to charter a private jet compares the options, and the private jet cost per hour breakdown gives the standard-charter benchmark.

The western US network is flown by everything from light jets to heavy metal, with the Citation CJ4 and Challenger 300 recurring most. Browse by aircraft type if cabin size matters more than the exact date.

Where these flights go

Working out the busiest corridors…

What flies here

Working out which aircraft show up…

Airports

Where the aircraft actually go

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