Edinburgh, the arrival city on the London to Edinburgh empty leg route
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Empty legs from London to Edinburgh

One way empty legs between London and Edinburgh, exactly as the operators list them. The operator confirms availability and the price with you directly.

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London Edinburgh about 265 nm

Straight line distance between the two cities. Actual routing and flight time depend on the aircraft and the airports.

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Why this route produces empty legs

Edinburgh is a small node on our board and London Luton is most of it. Fifteen legs in our record touch Edinburgh and nine of them are Luton, five leaving Luton for Edinburgh and four coming back. The next busiest Edinburgh partners are Liverpool and Wevelgem with two legs each, then Birmingham and Farnborough with one. This is the only Edinburgh corridor with enough on record to carry a page.

From the Luton end it sits near the top without dominating. Edinburgh is Luton's fourth busiest partner in our record with nine legs, behind Larnaca with seventeen, Paris Le Bourget with twelve and Dublin with ten. It is the only domestic route in that group.

Two operators produced the five legs and they are not flying the same thing. Air Charter Scotland listed three, all on one Citation Latitude with nine seats, registration G-SHUI. Luxaviation listed the other two on larger Embraers, a Legacy 650 and a Legacy 600 with thirteen seats each. On 21 August both operators ran the sector on the same day.

The flow is slightly out of balance, five this way against four coming back, and that gap is where an empty leg comes from. Four legs in the other direction is below the bar we set for a page, so there is no Edinburgh to London page to send you to yet.

Recently listed on this corridor

Both directions, up to 20 flights, with the price exactly as the operator published it.

When they show up

In ones and twos across five weeks, mostly with two to three weeks of notice. The 3 September and 4 September departures were both on our board from the middle of August, twenty two days ahead. The 21 August Citation Latitude went up fourteen days ahead and the 8 August Legacy 650 gave four days. The fifth, the 21 August Legacy 600, was already listed on 31 July when our record begins, so all we can say is that it was there at least three weeks out, not when it actually went up. Five legs on four separate dates is a trickle rather than a schedule, so the alert below is worth more than checking this page.

The route on a map

Approximate corridor between London and Edinburgh. Operators fly the sector direct; the airports each listing uses are shown on the flight itself.

The airports on this route

Every leg on this corridor names both ends by ICAO code, so there is no ambiguity about where you leave from or land. That is not true of London generally: our record has legs leaving Luton, Biggin Hill, London City, Stansted and Farnborough under the single word London, and only Luton appears here. The map is drawn from Luton for that reason.

Every leg we have on record for this route

Between 31 July and 6 September 2026 we recorded 5 empty legs from London to Edinburgh. None of them carried a published price: every operator on this corridor lists it on request. Each one was an hour and a quarter or less in the air, on three types, a Citation Latitude with nine seats and Legacy 600 and Legacy 650 Embraers with thirteen.

DepartureAircraftSeatsOperator's published priceStatus
8 Aug 2026Legacy 65013On requestAlready flown
21 Aug 2026Citation Latitude9On requestAlready flown
21 Aug 2026Legacy 60013On requestAlready flown
3 Sept 2026Citation Latitude9On requestAlready flown
4 Sept 2026Citation Latitude9On requestAlready flown

This is a record, not availability. These are the legs we saw on this corridor in that window, kept so the route has a history you can judge it by. None of them is bookable from this table. What is actually open right now is the live list above, and if it is empty the route alert is the way to catch the next one.

Before you book

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 say price on request, so the figure comes from the operator when you ask and we show nothing rather than guess. Seats are stated on every one, nine on the Citation Latitude and thirteen on both Embraers, which is more than most corridors on this board give you.

The two operators do not agree on how long the flight takes. Luxaviation publishes fifty five minutes on both of its legs and Air Charter Scotland publishes an hour and a quarter on all three of its own, across the same 265 nautical mile sector. Both are the operators' own figures. Plan against the longer one and confirm it with whoever is flying you.

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 London field you are leaving from. If nothing is showing on the live list today, that is normal for a corridor that produced five legs in a five week record.

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London to Edinburgh empty legs are posted days ahead, not months. Leave your email and we watch both directions for you, London to Edinburgh and Edinburgh to London, and send you nothing else.

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