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One way empty legs between Scottsdale and Pagosa Springs, exactly as the operators list them. Prices are the operator's own, not a marked up quote.
Straight line distance between the two cities. Actual routing and flight time depend on the aircraft and the airports.
Scottsdale sends 249 departures to 77 destinations in our record, which makes it one of the busiest origins on the board, and Pagosa Springs is five of those listings. Counted on rows that puts it fifteenth, but counted on distinct departure dates it is joint fourth, behind only Van Nuys at nine, Santa Ana at six and Denver at six. Five listings on five separate dates is a corridor that keeps producing rather than one that produced a cluster once.
Pagosa Springs is the smallest field on this site with a route page, and by a wide margin. Stevens Field sits in the San Juan mountains of southern Colorado and our whole record holds seven arrivals there from three origins and four departures out of it. All four of those departures go to Scottsdale and nowhere else. This is not a city pair so much as one mountain airstrip and the one place its aircraft come from and go back to.
The sector is about 325 nautical miles and every single leg is listed at exactly one hour in the air. That consistency is unusual on our board and it reflects what the corridor is: aircraft taking people from the Phoenix area up to a ski and hot springs town, then needing to come back down, or the reverse. Scottsdale is the business aviation field for Phoenix, and Phoenix to the southern Colorado mountains is a drive of eight hours or a flight of one.
The corridor is also one of only five on this site where every recorded leg carries the operator's own published price, and that is Pinnacle Aviation Charter's doing: it publishes a price, a tail number and a block time on all 74 of its listings in our record, across seven aircraft types. Four of these five legs are Pinnacle, and three of those four are the same airframe. The concentration is real and the table below shows it rather than hiding it, but five priced legs on five dates is still more than almost any corridor this size gives you.
Five movements on five dates, 20 September to 22 October 2026, spread evenly rather than bunched. Three have flown and two were still on the board when this page was built, the 8 October Citation XLS and the 22 October Learjet 60.
Notice varies more than the prices do. The 24 September leg appeared on the morning it departed and the 20 September one three days ahead, while the 8 October Citation XLS was listed 22 days out and the 22 October Learjet 60 nineteen days out. There is no window to aim at, so the alert below is the practical answer, but this is one of the few corridors where checking the page a couple of weeks ahead is not wasted.
Approximate corridor between Scottsdale and Pagosa Springs. Operators fly the sector direct; the airports each listing uses are shown on the flight itself.
Stevens Field is a mountain airport at 7,660 feet with one runway, and that matters more here than airport choice usually does: performance limits at altitude are a real constraint on which aircraft can take the sector and with what load, and weather closes small mountain fields in winter. Ask the operator about both. The five aircraft in our record are all midsize or light jets, which is consistent with that. This is a record of what has been listed, not a statement that any particular aircraft can be relied on to make the trip.
Reading the record.
| Departure | Aircraft | Seats | Operator's published price | Status |
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Every leg we have recorded between Scottsdale and Pagosa Springs, 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.
All five recorded legs carry a published price and the pattern is unusually clean. Pinnacle Aviation Charter listed four legs at a flat USD 4,600 each, on two different aircraft, a Cessna Citation Excel on tail N560DR and a Cessna Citation XLS on tail N560TW, across four separate dates. One operator, one price, four flights, a month apart at the extremes.
The fifth is Jetvia's seven seat Bombardier Learjet 60, tail N317MP, on 22 October at USD 6,000. That is USD 1,400 more than the Pinnacle legs for one seat fewer, which is the clearest illustration on this corridor that the price is the operator's policy rather than the route's arithmetic.
All five figures are for the whole aircraft, not per seat and not a from price. A flat rate repeated four times across five weeks is about as close as this record gets to a standing figure for a corridor, and it is a reasonable thing to open a conversation with. It is not a guarantee: Pinnacle set that number four times, and the next one is still the operator's to set.
Pagosa Springs back to Scottsdale is four listings on three dates in our record, all of them Pinnacle, which is short of what this site requires for a page of its own. If you need the return as well as the outbound, that is worth raising, because the aircraft that brought you up has to get back down either way.
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