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One way empty legs between Van Nuys and San Francisco, 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.
This is the return half of the San Francisco to Van Nuys flow, and the two directions are close to mirror images: five legs each, the same two operators, and on Silver Air's side the same two aircraft types.
The legs arrive in consecutive day pairs. Call a Jet listed a Hawker 900XP on 1 and 2 August. Silver Air listed a Citation CJ3 on 1 and 2 September. The fifth, a Challenger 350 on 20 September, stands on its own.
Four of the five were already inside a day of departure when we first recorded them. That is not a corridor you plan around, it is one you catch.
Not one of the five carries a published price. Every leg here says price on request, so we show nothing rather than guess.
At very short notice. Four of the five legs first appear in our record on the day they departed or the day before. Only the 20 September Challenger 350 was listed further out, on 1 September, nineteen days ahead, and it is the one leg on this corridor still open. Checking the page will not catch these; the alert below will.
Approximate corridor between Van Nuys and San Francisco. Operators fly the sector direct; the airports each listing uses are shown on the flight itself.
San Francisco International is a busy commercial airport and the general aviation ramp sits away from the terminals. If you are heading down the Peninsula rather than into the city, ask the operator what San Carlos would do to the ground time.
Reading the record.
| Departure | Aircraft | Seats | Operator's published price | Status |
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Every leg we have recorded between Van Nuys and San Francisco, 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 A leg leaves the board when the operator stops publishing it, and we cannot tell from outside whether it was sold or withdrawn, so these are counts of what was listed, not of what flew.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.
No operator on this corridor publishes a price. All five legs say price on request, so the figure comes from the operator when you ask and we show nothing rather than guess.
Seats are stated on all five: eight on each Hawker 900XP, six on each Citation CJ3 and nine on the Challenger 350. Silver Air publishes its own block time on its three legs, 1 hour 6 minutes on the CJ3 and 1 hour flat on the Challenger 350; the two Hawker legs carry no time, so the figure on this page is worked from the great circle distance. 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 Bay Area field you are landing at.
Van Nuys to San Francisco empty legs are posted days ahead, not months. Leave your email and we watch both directions for you, Van Nuys to San Francisco and San Francisco to Van Nuys, and send you nothing else.