An empty leg, drawn out
Six drawings instead of a list of questions. Where the flight comes from, why any price beats an empty cabin, what you give up to get it, what it actually costs, what can take it away, and where the money goes.
01
The aircraft has to come and get them
A jet is parked in Amsterdam. A client in Nice books it. Before their flight can start, the aircraft has to fly Amsterdam to Nice with nobody on board, just to reach them.
That positioning sector is the empty leg. It is going to be flown either way, so the operator would rather sell it than fly it hollow.
02
Every euro on it is upside
The crew, the fuel, the slots and the handling on that sector are already committed. Fly it empty and the operator recovers nothing at all. Put you on it and whatever you pay is money they were never going to see.
That is the whole reason the number can be what it is. It is not a discount off a real price, it is revenue on a flight that had none.
03
You trade the clock for the price
This is the whole deal, and it is the thing that disqualifies people. A charter departs at the hour you name. An empty leg departs when the aircraft has to be somewhere else: one flight, one moment, no return.
If that moment fits your plans, this inventory is open to you. If you have to leave at an hour of your own choosing, book a regular charter. We would rather say that here than sell you the wrong thing.
04
The same aircraft, a different number
An empty leg is not a lesser product. Identical aircraft, identical crew, identical cabin as the charter booked around it. Only the departure moment is out of your hands.
The comparison is a range rather than a single figure, because the published number is a range: empty legs sit 50 to 75 percent below the charter rate for the same aircraft and route. The empty leg price is live from our listings.
05
It can be taken away from you
Your leg exists because of a booking that is not yours. If that booking moves to another day, changes airport, or is cancelled, the repositioning flight changes with it and your leg is gone.
This happens regularly in this market. It is on this page rather than in the terms, because finding out at the airport is worse than finding out now.
06
Where the money goes
You pay the operator directly for the flight. We never hold your money. The operator pays us a referral fee, and only when a flight we introduced actually operates.
We do not publish which operator flies a given leg. That confidentiality is the condition under which they list with us at all. You will know whose aircraft you are boarding well before you board it.
Two more things worth knowing
The price is the whole aircraft
Not per passenger. Fly with four and you split it four ways. The seat count on each listing is the real limit for that aircraft.
The cabin photos show the class
Cabin photography here shows a typical aircraft of that class, not the specific aircraft on your leg, and every listing says so. The type, seats, route, departure and price are the real values.