London — Ibiza.
Ibiza empty legs are creatures of the season — abundant on summer weekends, gone by November, expired within hours of release. So instead of a listings page we run an alert: 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: Embraer Phenom 300 or Cessna Citation XLS+, block 2h07. Empty legs run 30–75% below — same aircraft, same crew, one direction.
Why the corridor produces empty legs.
Ibiza is one-way traffic in its purest form. Groups fly out for a long weekend and the aircraft returns to base empty the same evening; at the season's end the pattern reverses in a week of southbound repositioning.
Supply runs May to October and peaks around the opening and closing weeks, with July and August weekends in between. At 2h07 this is one of the longer sectors we track, so the saving in absolute terms is the largest.
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.
Phenom 300 and Citation XLS+ lead the lane. The sector's length brings midsize in more often than on the short hops.
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.
Most empty legs on this corridor surface between one and fourteen days before departure, concentrated around summer weekends. 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 London–Ibiza, so one alert covers the whole corridor.