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DepartureLas Vegas
ArrivalMonterey
One way empty legs between Las Vegas and Monterey, exactly as the operators list them. The operator confirms availability and the price with you directly.
Straight line distance between the two cities. Actual routing and flight time depend on the aircraft and the airports.
Monterey Peninsula (KMRY) is the field for Carmel, Pebble Beach and Big Sur, a short runway to a small and wealthy catchment with far more demand to arrive than to depart. Las Vegas is one of the largest pools of available charter aircraft in the western United States.
The result is a steady one way flow. An aircraft finishes a job in Las Vegas, is wanted on the Monterey Peninsula, and the positioning flight west is empty. All five legs we have on record came from one operator, Thrive Aviation.
Every leg on this corridor was a Cessna Citation: a Longitude, a CJ3+ twice and a Sovereign+ twice. That is a narrower spread of aircraft than the Las Vegas board shows as a whole, where we have recorded eight different types on the Las Vegas to Van Nuys corridor alone.
At short notice, mostly. Four of the five legs went on the board between three and twelve days before departure. Only the 23 October leg was listed further out, fifty six days ahead. If you want this route you are watching for it rather than booking it in advance.
Approximate corridor between Las Vegas and Monterey. Operators fly the sector direct; the airports each listing uses are shown on the flight itself.
Monterey has a short runway and sits on the coast, so fog is a genuine operational factor from late spring through summer. Ask the operator what the alternate is before you commit to a tight schedule at the far end.
Reading the record.
| Departure | Aircraft | Seats | Operator's published price | Status |
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Every leg we have recorded between Las Vegas and Monterey, 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 A leg leaves the board when the operator stops publishing it, and we cannot tell from outside whether it was sold or withdrawn, so these are counts of what was listed, not of what flew.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.
No operator on this corridor publishes a price. All five legs we have recorded say price on request, so the figure comes from the operator when you ask and we show nothing rather than guess.
No operator here published a flight time either, so the block figure on this page is worked from the great circle distance rather than taken from a listing. 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 what the plan is if Monterey is below minimums.
Las Vegas to Monterey empty legs are posted days ahead, not months. Leave your email and we watch both directions for you, Las Vegas to Monterey and Monterey to Las Vegas, and send you nothing else.