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Van Nuys City Hall
The art deco tower at the centre of the district.
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The busiest general aviation airport in Los Angeles
Van Nuys is a general aviation airport in the San Fernando Valley, inside the city of Los Angeles, and it is the single busiest departure and arrival point on our board.
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The art deco tower at the centre of the district.
The lake and the recreation area, a few minutes west of the airport.
Not in the valley: it is over the hills to the south east, above the city.
We list what operators publish and take no commission. Your enquiry goes to them.
Availability is re-read from operator sources through the day, and each leg carries its timestamp.
The figure shown is the operator's own, for the whole aircraft. Where none is published we say so.
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Van Nuys is in the San Fernando Valley, inside the city of Los Angeles, and it is one of the busiest general aviation airports anywhere. It handles no scheduled airlines, which is why almost all of its traffic is charter, private and repositioning, and why the empty leg flights off it are frequent.
The board shows one corridor above all others: Las Vegas, nineteen times in four weeks, which is more than the next four partners combined. After that it is the Bay Area, Oakland and San Francisco, and Los Cabos in Mexico. The Vegas run is a forty-five minute flight, and empty legs on it appear constantly.
Los Angeles traffic makes the airport choice matter more here than almost anywhere. Van Nuys is quick for the Valley and the west side, and slow for anywhere south of downtown.
For what a seat works out at across the whole board, by aircraft type and in the operator's own currency, see how much an empty leg private jet costs.
Where an operator publishes a price it is shown exactly as listed, as a whole-aircraft figure rather than a per-seat fare. Where none is published the card says so rather than estimating.
West coast sectors from Van Nuys are under two hours; Las Vegas is about forty-five minutes. You can also browse the whole list by aircraft type.
Reading the record.
These are counts from our own board, read when you opened this page, so they reflect the operators we read rather than the whole market, and they are a record of what was listed, not a forecast. New legs appear with days of notice, which is what the route alert is for.
An empty leg exists because of the paid charter around it, so it can be sold or moved without notice. Every listing here is recorded from what the operator published, with the date we last saw it. Treat it as a strong indication rather than a guarantee, and confirm with the operator before planning around it.
Empty Leg List is a listing service. We are not a broker, not an operator, and not party to any booking, and we take no commission. Your enquiry goes to the operator covering the route, who confirms availability and final price with you directly. If nothing matches, set a route alert and we email you when a leg on that corridor is listed.
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Live legs leaving from, or landing at, other airports within 150 km of VNY. A leg from an airport an hour's drive away can be the one that fits; the distance shown is from VNY to the airport the leg uses, in a straight line.
Every leg we have recorded with one end at Van Nuys 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.
| Airport at the other end | Legs out | Legs in | On the board | Priced | Last seen |
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Legs out left Van Nuys, legs in landed at Van Nuys. Airports are named as the operator published them, so a row is whatever the operator wrote. The few legs where both ends resolve to Van Nuys are counted above but have no other end to list.
Every corridor touching Van Nuys that has its own page, with the legs we have recorded on it. Every empty leg touching the country is on empty legs in the United States.