Empty legs from San Jose to Van Nuys

One way empty legs between San Jose and Van Nuys, exactly as the operators list them. The operator confirms availability and the price with you directly.

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Why this route produces empty legs

San Jose is a small node in our record and Van Nuys is most of it. Eleven recorded departures leave Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International for five different destinations and five of them come here, with nothing else reaching more than three. Coming the other way San Jose takes thirteen arrivals from four origins, seven from Camarillo and four from Van Nuys, so the whole of its private traffic in our data runs to and from Southern California.

Two operators listed the five and the split is uneven. Silver Air listed three, a Hawker 900XP twice and a Bombardier Challenger 350 once. XCEL JET listed the other two, both a Bombardier Lear 40XR with six seats. Van Nuys is the centre of Silver Air's board rather than an occasional stop: 52 of its 67 listings anywhere in our record have Van Nuys at one end.

Three aircraft types across five legs, and the block times split by airframe rather than by date. The Hawker 900XP and the Lear 40XR are listed at 1 hour on all four of their legs and the Challenger 350 at 54 minutes on its one, against a great circle of 255 nautical miles. Seats are published on every leg, at six, six, eight, eight and nine.

One of the five is a long way out. Four depart inside a fortnight, between 15 and 27 September 2026, and the fifth is 28 December, 107 days after the day it was listed. Everything else on this corridor was posted for a date inside three weeks.

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 a tight September cluster and then one winter date. Four of the five depart between 15 and 27 September 2026 and the fifth on 28 December.

The whole corridor as we know it was posted inside a fortnight. Every one of the five listings entered our record between 1 and 12 September 2026. Measured from that day to departure, the notice was 7, 6, 19, 16 and 107 days, so four of the five gave under three weeks and the route alert is worth more than checking this page.

The route on a map

Approximate corridor between San Jose and Van Nuys. Operators fly the sector direct; the airports each listing uses are shown on the flight itself.

The airports on this route

• Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International (KSJC): the departure on all five legs, at the southern end of the Bay Area and the closest large field to the South Bay.
• Reid Hillview (KRHV): the small general aviation field east of San Jose, not used on this corridor in our record.
• Van Nuys (KVNY): the arrival on all five, in the San Fernando Valley and one of the busiest general aviation airports anywhere.
• Hollywood Burbank (BUR) and Los Angeles International (LAX): the two alternatives at the Los Angeles end, one closer to the studios and one for the largest aircraft, neither used here.
• Oakland (KOAK) and San Francisco International (KSFO): the other Bay Area fields, both a longer drive from the South Bay and neither used on this corridor.

Every one of the five listings names San Jose International and Van Nuys by ICAO code, so the computed distance on this page uses the pair the operators use. San Jose is a name our sources also apply to San Jose in Costa Rica and to San Jose del Cabo in Mexico, so this page reads only the listings that carry the California codes, and the live board above will not show you a flight from either of the others.

Every leg we have on record for this route

Between 1 and 12 September 2026 we recorded 5 empty legs from San Jose to Van Nuys. None of them carried a published price: every operator on this corridor lists it on request. Each one was 1 hour on four legs and 54 minutes on the Challenger 350 in the air, on three types, a Bombardier Lear 40XR twice, a Hawker 900XP twice and a Bombardier Challenger 350 once.

Departure	Aircraft	Seats	Operator's published price	Status
15 Sep 2026	Bombardier Lear 40XR	6	On request	No longer listed
17 Sep 2026	Hawker 900XP	8	On request	No longer listed
20 Sep 2026	Hawker 900XP	8	On request	No longer listed
27 Sep 2026	Bombardier Challenger 350	9	On request	On the board now
28 Dec 2026	Bombardier Lear 40XR	6	On request	On the board now

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 leg on this corridor carries a published price. All five say price on request, so the figure comes from the operator when you ask and we show nothing rather than guess.

That is the operators rather than a gap in our collection. Silver Air publishes no price on any of its 67 listings in our record and XCEL JET none on any of its 31. Both do publish a seat count and a block time on every leg here, so those two columns are filled on all five rows.

We have recorded four legs coming back from Van Nuys to San Jose, below our bar for a page of its own, so there is no reverse page yet. The corridor runs both ways and the same two operators list both halves, so ask about the return as well as the outbound.

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 cabin is actually assigned, because six seats on the Lear 40XR and nine on the Challenger 350 are different aircraft on the same hour in the air.

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