Ibiza old town above the harbour
Empty legs by country

Empty legs in Spain

Ibiza first, Málaga second, and Belgium at the other end of most of them

Board figures from September 2026. The list further down is live.

59upcoming empty legs touching Spain
34leaving, 32 arriving, 7 inside the country
27%carry a published price, 16 of 59
343legs recorded touching Spain since we began reading operators in July 2026

Empty leg flights in Spain

Spain has 59 upcoming empty legs on our board, 34 leaving and 32 arriving, with 7 flying inside the country. 16 of the 59 carry a published price, so most Spanish cards say price on enquiry.

Ibiza is on 18 legs, more than any other Spanish field, then Málaga at 10, Barcelona at 7, Girona at 6 and Madrid at 6. Look at the other end of the corridors and one name keeps coming up: Wevelgem, the Belgian business airport, to Ibiza four times, to and from Girona, to and from Málaga. The British end is London Luton to Málaga.

Across the 14 legs priced in euros the median aircraft is 6,200 and the median seat 689. The CJ4 Gen 2 is on 14 legs, but Spain also draws bigger cabins than Belgium or France: a Latitude on 6, a Gulfstream V on 4, a Legacy 500 on 3. We have recorded 343 legs touching Spain since the end of July, and the summer islands account for a good share of what has already flown.

Ibiza has more empty legs than Madrid and Barcelona put together. The operators follow the season, not the capital.

Cities on the board

Upcoming legs touching each Spanish airport. The linked ones have their own page with the live list and everything we have recorded there.

Ibiza18 Málaga10 Barcelona7 Girona6 Madrid6 Palma de Mallorca3 Tenerife3 Alicante2 Jerez de la Frontera2 Valencia2 Santiago de Compostela1

Busiest corridors

The most repeated city pairs touching Spain, with the number of upcoming legs on each. Direction matters: an empty leg is one way and there is no return.

Wevelgem to Ibiza4 Málaga to Wevelgem2 Wevelgem to Girona2 London Luton to Málaga2 Girona to Wevelgem2 Ibiza to Wevelgem2 Ibiza to Antwerp1 Paris to Ibiza1 Málaga to London Luton1 Manchester to Madrid1

What flies here

Aircraft, as the operator names itLegs
Cessna Citation CJ4 Gen 214
Citation Latitude6
Cessna C560 Citation XLS - XLS+5
GV (ULR)4
Embraer E550 Legacy 5003
Cessna C680 Citation Sovereign3

Operators write the type their own way, so the same aircraft can appear under two names. We show what they wrote.

What an empty leg costs in Spain

Median of the operator's published price, and that price divided by the seats the operator listed, on upcoming legs touching Spain that carry both. Only currencies with at least three such legs.

CurrencyLegsAircraftPer seat
EUR146,200689

Per seat is a division, not a fare: the operator sells the aircraft. How that works across the whole board is in how much an empty leg private jet costs.

Upcoming empty legs touching Spain, live

Read from our listings when you open the page, soonest first. Price is the operator's figure for the whole aircraft, or price on enquiry if they did not publish one.

DepartsRouteAircraftSeatsPrice
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A listing can be sold or withdrawn between our last check and your enquiry. Set an alert on a route and you hear first.

How empty legs work in Spain

An empty leg is a flight a charter operator has to make anyway, to position an aircraft for a booking or to bring it home afterwards, sold at a discount because the alternative is flying it empty. The operator sets the route, the date and the aircraft. You fit into a flight that already exists, and it is one way: there is no return leg and no such thing as a return seat.

Everything on this page comes from Spanish legs that operators published on their own websites. We read those sites several times a day and record each leg exactly as listed, route, date, aircraft, seats and the operator's own price where they gave one. We do not read brokers, we take no commission and enquiries go straight to the operator. A leg counts for Spain when either end resolves to a Spanish airport, first by the airport code the operator gave and then by the city name, so a leg written as an airport name still lands in the right country.

The written figures above are a snapshot from September 2026 and are restated, not quietly edited, when we rerun them. The live list is the board as it stands now.

Questions people ask about empty legs in Spain

Which Spanish airport has the most empty legs?

Ibiza, on 18 of the 59 upcoming empty legs touching Spain, ahead of Málaga at 10, Barcelona at 7, Girona at 6 and Madrid at 6.

How much does an empty leg to Spain cost?

Across the 14 upcoming legs priced in euros the median published price is 6,200 euros for the whole aircraft, 689 euros a seat divided by the listed seats. Most Spanish legs, 43 of 59, do not carry a published price.

Where do empty legs to Ibiza come from?

Belgium more than anywhere else on our board: Wevelgem to Ibiza is the most repeated corridor into Spain, with Antwerp and Paris behind it.

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