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One way empty legs between Toronto and Ottawa, 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.
Toronto to Ottawa is about 195 nautical miles and four of the five recorded legs are listed at 42 minutes. It is a short domestic sector between the largest city in the country and the capital, and on our board it is a surprisingly quiet one.
Toronto Pearson sends 162 recorded empty legs to 70 destinations. Ottawa is fifth of them at five listings, a long way behind Teterboro at 29, Montreal at eleven, Sault Ste Marie at eight and Naples at six. Ottawa takes six recorded arrivals in total from anywhere, and five of those six are this corridor.
The flow runs the other way. Ottawa back to Toronto is eight recorded legs against these five, so the busier direction is the return, and it has a page of its own worth checking alongside this one.
All five legs are Chartright Air Group. No other operator appears on this corridor in our record. Chartright has 240 recorded legs with us across nineteen aircraft descriptions, one of the widest ranges on our board, and four of the five legs here are Challengers: a 604 at ten seats, a 300 at nine and two 605s at twelve. The fifth and oldest is a seven seat Cessna Citation Ultra in August.
Five movements on five dates spread over fifteen weeks, 11 August to 21 November 2026. That is roughly one every three weeks with no cluster anywhere in it. On a corridor this thin the route alert is worth considerably more than checking the page.
Notice has been reasonable on four of the five. The 23 September leg was listed ten days ahead, 6 October ten days, 20 October eighteen days and 21 November 71 days. Only the 11 August Citation Ultra appeared on the day it departed. Two of the five were still on the board when this page was built, the 6 October Challenger 300 and the 20 October Challenger 605.
Approximate corridor between Toronto and Ottawa. Operators fly the sector direct; the airports each listing uses are shown on the flight itself.
Pearson takes all five departures and Macdonald-Cartier all five arrivals, so there is no field choice to settle on either end. Macdonald-Cartier is about ten miles south of central Ottawa. Every price on this corridor is in Canadian dollars, exactly as the operator published it. Ottawa back to Toronto runs more often, at eight recorded legs against these five, and has its own page.
Reading the record.
| Departure | Aircraft | Seats | Operator's published price | Status |
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Every leg we have recorded between Toronto and Ottawa, 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.
Four of the five recorded legs carry Chartright Air Group's own published price for the whole aircraft, all of them in Canadian dollars: CAD 4,500 on a nine seat Bombardier Challenger 300 on 6 October, CAD 6,300 on a ten seat Challenger 604 on 23 September, and CAD 6,700 on each of two twelve seat Challenger 605s on 20 October and 21 November.
Those four line up the way you would expect, which is not always how it goes. The price rises with the cabin, from CAD 4,500 at nine seats to CAD 6,700 at twelve, over the same 195 nautical miles and the same 42 minutes. On the Miami to Teterboro corridor on this site the larger cabin is the cheaper listing, so the ordering here is worth having rather than assuming.
The fifth leg, the Cessna Citation Ultra on 11 August, carries no price, and Chartright is not a blanket no price operator, which makes that gap specific to the listing rather than policy. It has published a figure on 145 of its 240 recorded listings, a little over half. It publishes no tail numbers at all, here or anywhere else in our record.
All four figures are for the whole aircraft, never per seat and never a from price. Ask the operator whether the departure time can still move, whether the figure covers the whole aircraft or a part charter, and what happens if the paid flight that created this empty leg falls through.
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