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One way empty legs between Scottsdale and Van Nuys, 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.
Two general aviation fields 330 nautical miles apart, one in north Scottsdale and one in the San Fernando Valley, with Phoenix and Los Angeles either side of them. On our board this is the busiest thing Scottsdale does: of the 78 departures we have recorded from it, to 48 different destinations, five came to Van Nuys and four went to Calgary, and nothing else reached four.
At the other end it is one line among many. Van Nuys has taken 107 recorded arrivals from 48 different origins, led by Las Vegas on nineteen, Teterboro on eight, and San Jose and San Francisco on six each. Scottsdale is fifth on five. So this corridor matters a great deal more to Scottsdale than it does to Van Nuys.
Four operators and four aircraft types across five legs, which is unusually varied for a corridor this size. Sun Air Jets lists two Gulfstream G200 legs, Pinnacle Aviation Charter a Gulfstream G280, Silver Air a Gulfstream G550 and Jet OUT a Cessna Citation CJ4. Three of the four types are Gulfstreams and the published cabins run from eight seats to fourteen.
Every one of the five names both ends by ICAO code, KSDL and KVNY, so nothing on this page rests on a city name. We have recorded three legs coming back the other way, below our bar for a page, so there is no Van Nuys to Scottsdale page to read this one against yet.
In ones, spread across four months, with no two sharing a date: 10 and 16 September, 6 and 18 October 2026, and 3 January 2027. Two have flown, two are still on the board and the January leg is no longer listed.
Notice varies more here than on almost any corridor we publish. Measured from the day each listing entered our record to its departure, the five gave 0, 5, 20, 37 and 124 days. One appeared on the morning of the flight and one arrived four months ahead, so neither checking the page nor waiting on the alert covers this corridor on its own.
Approximate corridor between Scottsdale and Van Nuys. Operators fly the sector direct; the airports each listing uses are shown on the flight itself.
Van Nuys is quick for the Valley and the west side of Los Angeles and slow for anywhere south of downtown, and on a sector the operators list at just over an hour the drive at the far end is a real part of the journey. Scottsdale Airport is in the north of the city rather than beside Phoenix, so the drive at the Arizona end depends on which side of the valley you start from. One caution about the table further down, which reads our record live rather than from a snapshot baked into this page: our record holds the 16 September Jet OUT listing twice, collected once with a seat count and once without, so the table shows it on two lines that differ only in the seats column and the count above the table reads six. There are five legs on this corridor, and every figure on this page is on the five.
Reading the record.
| Departure | Aircraft | Seats | Operator's published price | Status |
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Every leg we have recorded between Scottsdale and Van Nuys, 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.
One of the five carries a published price: USD 7,300 for the whole aircraft on the Gulfstream G280 departing 6 October. That is Pinnacle Aviation Charter's figure for the aircraft, not a per seat fare, and it is the only price we hold on this corridor.
The four blanks are the operators' own practice rather than gaps in our collection. Sun Air Jets publishes a price on none of its 33 listings anywhere in our record, Jet OUT on none of its 933 and Silver Air on none of its 95. Pinnacle publishes a price, a seat count, a block time and a tail number on all 34 of its listings, which is why the one priced row is also the only one that names an airframe, N280JM.
Seats are published on all five, from eight on the Gulfstream G280 and the Cessna Citation CJ4 to fourteen on the Gulfstream G550. Four of the five publish a block time: 1 hour 12 minutes on both Sun Air Jets Gulfstream G200 legs and on the Silver Air Gulfstream G550, and 1 hour 6 minutes on the Pinnacle Gulfstream G280.
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 Los Angeles field you are landing at, because every listing we have recorded here names KVNY, which is Van Nuys.
Scottsdale to Van Nuys empty legs are posted days ahead, not months. Leave your email and we watch both directions for you, Scottsdale to Van Nuys and Van Nuys to Scottsdale, and send you nothing else.