Guide
Empty legs are published by the charter operators that fly them, on their own websites, one operator at a time. That is why they are hard to find: there is no central register, and a flight can appear and be gone inside a day. This page is how we find them, how you can search them here, and what to expect when you book one.
Updated . Board figures from September 2026. The live list on the home page is live.
Every empty leg starts as a page on an operator's website. A charter is booked, the aircraft has to reposition, and the operator lists the empty sector with the date, the type and the seats, sometimes with a price and more often with price on enquiry. Brokers copy some of those listings onto their own sites, sometimes days later, and add their margin.
We read the operator pages directly, several times a day, and record every new leg with the operator's own words. In the thirty days to early September 2026 that was 3,052 new flights, and the board holds around 1,100 upcoming ones at any moment. Nothing on the board is typed in by us.
Start on the live list. Type a departure, a destination or both, pick a date if you have one, and the list narrows to the legs that match. Cities and countries both work, so "Nice" and "France" each find the Riviera legs.
If you would rather browse, every city on the board has its own page with a live list and the corridors it usually flies, and so does every country. If the cabin matters more than the route, go by aircraft type.
Each leg shows the route, the date, the aircraft, the seats the operator listed, and the price exactly as the operator published it, or price on enquiry where they did not.
Empty legs are published late and vanish early. Across 3,928 legs we hold timestamps for, the median appeared 8.7 days before departure, and 1,780 of them appeared inside the final week. We have also watched 622 legs disappear before their departure date, half of them within 4.5 days of appearing.
So the flight you want is more likely to be published next week than to be on the board today, and the last minute list shows everything departing inside seven days. A route alert watches the route for you and tells you when a leg appears on it. It is free and it is the single most useful thing on this site for anyone with a fixed route and a flexible date.
Searches for the best empty leg flights website are common, and we are not going to answer that about ourselves. What we can say is what to look for on any site, ours included. It should say where each flight came from, so you know it is an operator's listing and not a guess. It should show the date the listing was last checked. It should show the price as the operator wrote it, in the operator's currency, rather than a converted or rounded figure. It should say plainly that the flight is one way. And it should tell you who answers the enquiry, the operator or a middleman.
On this site the enquiry goes to the operator that flies the leg. We are a listing service, not a broker, we take no commission, and we do not quote.
Booking is an enquiry, not a checkout. You send the enquiry from the leg you found, the operator confirms the flight is still available, and quotes you for the whole aircraft, one way. If you accept, the contract, the payment and the flight are between you and the operator, as with any charter.
Three things to have ready: the number of passengers, whether your date can move a day either way, and whether you can accept a nearby airport. Empty legs do not bend to you; the operator sets the route, the date and the aircraft. What flexibility you bring is what turns a listing into a flight. The cost guide has the figures on what an empty leg costs when it does carry a price.
Operators publish them on their own websites, and this site reads those pages several times a day and lists every leg in one place. Search by city, country or date on the live list, or set a route alert and be told when one appears on your route.
Not from us. The live list works in any phone browser, and a route alert sends you the leg when it appears, which is what most people want an app for.
You send an enquiry from the leg you found, the operator that flies it confirms availability and quotes you for the whole aircraft, and the booking is then between you and the operator. On this site there is no commission in between.
About a week. Across 3,928 legs we hold timestamps for, the median was published 8.7 days before departure and 1,780 appeared inside the final week. Set a route alert if your date is further out.
We do not rank ourselves against anyone. A good one shows where each listing came from, when it was last checked, the operator's own price in the operator's currency, says the flight is one way, and tells you who answers the enquiry. That is what this site does.