On the street
The West End
Union flags over the shopping streets, and the buses under them.
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The river, the City and Farnborough
By far the busiest city on our board, with 168 recorded legs. Larnaca and Paris are its two most frequent partners, and most of the private traffic uses Farnborough, Biggin Hill and Luton rather than the airline airports.
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Union flags over the shopping streets, and the buses under them.
The cathedral at the north end of the Millennium Bridge.
Parliament and the clock tower from the far bank.
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Availability is re-read from operator sources through the day, and each leg carries its timestamp.
The figure shown is the operator's own, for the whole aircraft. Where none is published we say so.
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London produces more empty leg flights than any other city on this list, and the reason is structural rather than seasonal. The city has a large based fleet and constant outbound charter, and every paid charter that leaves London has to be repositioned afterwards. That returning sector is the empty leg: the aircraft, crew and handling are already paid for, so the operator publishes the seat or the whole aircraft at a reduced one-way price rather than flying it empty.
In practice that means London is one of the few places where waiting for a match is a realistic strategy. Short European corridors refill quickly: London to Nice, London to Paris, London to Ibiza and London to Dublin are the ones that reappear most often on the board above. Longer sectors to the Gulf and the Atlantic show up less frequently but with more notice.
The city name in a listing is doing a lot of work. Luton, Farnborough, Biggin Hill and Stansted are four different drives and four different arrival experiences, so check which one before you commit:
For what a seat works out at across the whole board, by aircraft type and in the operator's own currency, see how much an empty leg private jet costs.
Prices on this page are the operator's own published figure for the whole aircraft, not a per-seat fare, and they are shown exactly as listed. Where the operator has not published one, the card says so rather than estimating. The saving against a standard charter is real but it is not fixed, and it depends entirely on how badly the operator wants to avoid flying that sector empty. Our guide to the most affordable way to charter a private jet compares the options, and the private jet cost per hour breakdown shows what a standard charter runs for comparison.
Aircraft on the London board range from light jets on the short hops through to heavy metal on the long ones: the Citation XLS and Citation Latitude on European sectors, the Global 6000 and Gulfstream G550 when the route is intercontinental. Browsing by aircraft type is often faster than by route if cabin size matters more than the exact date.
Reading the record.
These are counts from our own board, read when you opened this page, so they reflect the operators we read rather than the whole market, and they are a record of what was listed, not a forecast. New legs appear with days of notice, which is what the route alert is for.
An empty leg exists because of the paid charter around it, so it can be sold or moved without notice. Every listing here is recorded from what the operator published, and each one carries the date we last saw it. Treat what you see as a strong indication rather than a guarantee, and confirm the detail with the operator before you plan around it.
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Live legs leaving from, or landing at, other airports within 150 km of LHR. A leg from an airport an hour's drive away can be the one that fits; the distance shown is from LHR to the airport the leg uses, in a straight line.
Every leg we have recorded with one end at London 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.
| Airport at the other end | Legs out | Legs in | On the board | Priced | Last seen |
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Legs out left London, legs in landed at London. Airports are named as the operator published them, so a row is whatever the operator wrote. The few legs where both ends resolve to London are counted above but have no other end to list.
Every corridor touching London that has its own page, with the legs we have recorded on it. Every empty leg touching the country is on empty legs in the United Kingdom.