Nice — Olbia.
In high summer, aircraft shuttle between Nice and the Costa Smeralda daily, and the empty half of those rotations sells within hours. We run an alert rather than a listings page: one email when an aircraft is released, covering every operator we work with on the lane.
Pricing reality.
One benchmark, one band. The discount is real; so are the conditions attached to it.
Benchmark: Cessna Citation CJ2+ or Embraer Phenom 300, block 0h53. Empty legs run 30–75% below — same aircraft, same crew, one direction.
Why the corridor produces empty legs.
Nice to Olbia is the yacht shuttle. In July and August aircraft hop the 53 minutes between the Riviera and the Costa Smeralda constantly, and many of those rotations fly empty in one direction — a guest dropped in Porto Cervo means an empty cabin home.
This is the most seasonal corridor we track: abundant from late June to early September, quiet the rest of the year. When it runs, notice is short — often a day or two — which is exactly what an alert is for.
The rules of the game.
Dates move with the client.
The paying booking owns the schedule. If it shifts by a day, the empty leg shifts with it.
It can cancel outright.
The leg exists only while the original trip does. Refunded in full — but no aircraft.
One direction only.
Empty legs do not come in pairs. For the return we quote a second leg, or a full charter.
Light jets do the work.
Citation CJ2+ and Phenom 300 lead the lane. Fifty-three minutes in the air keeps even the smallest cabins comfortable.
Questions.
Yes. An empty leg is an aircraft repositioning without passengers — returning to base or moving to its next job. The flight operates whether or not anyone buys the seats.
In season, most empty legs on this corridor surface one to seven days before departure — often just a day or two. Once priced, the good ones rarely last 48 hours.
If the originating trip changes, the empty leg moves or disappears. You are refunded in full and we look for the next option. This risk is the reason for the price.
An operator can only list its own aircraft. As a broker we monitor every operator we work with on Nice–Olbia, so one alert covers the whole corridor.