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One way empty legs between West Palm Beach and Sarasota, 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.
This is a 140 nautical mile hop across the Florida peninsula and every operator who publishes a time on it publishes the same one, 42 minutes. It is the second most frequent destination out of West Palm Beach in our record, five movements against 10 to Teterboro, and it is the single largest source of arrivals into Sarasota, five of 31, ahead of Birmingham and Miami on three each.
It runs one way and barely comes back. Five movements west, one east. West Palm Beach as a whole is a net exporter in our record, 69 recorded departures to 39 destinations against 31 arrivals from 23 origins, and this corridor is that pattern in miniature: aircraft cross to the Gulf coast for a job and find their way home by some other route.
Five movements and four different operators is a wide spread for a corridor this size. Thrive Aviation, Alerion Aviation, Jetvia and Aircraft Services Group each appear, and only Jetvia appears twice. Nobody is running a shuttle here, which means the legs turn up independently of each other.
The four cabins on offer have almost nothing in common and all take the same 42 minutes: a seven seat Bombardier Learjet 60, a ten seat Gulfstream G280, an eight seat Embraer Phenom 300 and, on the one leg that publishes nothing but type and date, a Cessna Citation Longitude. On a 42 minute sector the cabin and the price are the whole decision.
Five movements between 13 August and 25 October 2026, spread out at roughly one a fortnight with a gap through the first half of October. Three have already flown, one left the board and one is still listed.
Notice is short to medium here. The longest lead was the 25 October Learjet 60, which came into our record on 27 September, and the shortest was the 14 September Gulfstream G280, which appeared the day before it flew. A corridor that behaves like this is better watched by alert than by visit.
Approximate corridor between West Palm Beach and Sarasota. Operators fly the sector direct; the airports each listing uses are shown on the flight itself.
Both ends are consistent on every listing that carries a code, which makes the distance on this page unusually safe. One caveat on the departure field: its identifiers changed from PBI and KPBI to DJT and KDJT on 9 July 2026, and our record still holds both codes in active use, 117 rows saying KDJT against 26 saying KPBI. Every coded listing on this corridor uses the new code. Sarasota Bradenton is a commercial airport, so ask the operator which side of the field you are being handled on.
Reading the record.
| Departure | Aircraft | Seats | Operator's published price | Status |
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Every leg we have recorded between West Palm Beach and Sarasota, 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.
Two of the five carry a published price and both are the identical USD 4,200 for the whole aircraft, on 23 September and 25 October. Both are Jetvia and both are a Bombardier Learjet 60 with seven seats, but they are two different airframes, N600SJ and N404CD, seven weeks apart.
Read that as an operator rate. Jetvia publishes a price on 986 of the 1,033 listings we hold for it, flown across 15 airframes, so the same figure appearing twice on two tails is a rate card rather than a coincidence. What it does not tell you is what the other three operators would charge.
The three legs with no price are the Alerion Gulfstream G280, the Aircraft Services Group Phenom 300 and the Thrive Aviation Longitude. None of those three publishes prices anywhere worth speaking of in our record: Alerion on none of its eight rows, Aircraft Services Group on three of 201, Thrive on none of 1,032. So the gap in the table below is the operators' choice, not ours.
The Thrive leg is the one row below with no seat count. Thrive publishes the operator name, the aircraft type and the date and nothing else, on every one of its listings, so there is no seat count, block time or tail number to show.
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 whether the 42 minutes on the listing is a block time or an air time, because on a sector this short the difference is most of the flight.
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