One place to see the repositioning flights that charter operators publish on their own websites, collected three times a day and put into a single searchable list. Live at emptylegslist.com, operated by Publishing Office SRL.
A charter aircraft often flies one leg without passengers, returning to base after a charter or repositioning to collect its next client. The operator pays for fuel, crew and handling either way, so that empty sector gets offered at a reduced price.
Those offers are real, but they live on individual operator websites. Each one has its own page, its own format, its own update rhythm. A traveller who wants to know what is flying out of London this week would have to open dozens of tabs, and would still miss the leg that appeared an hour ago on a site they did not know about.
There was no single place to look. That is the gap Empty Leg List fills.
The site puts every leg we have collected into a single table you can sort and filter. Search runs on departure city, arrival city, earliest date, aircraft type, seat count, region, month and price. Prices can be shown in five currencies. The table carries flight time, seats, total price and the price per seat, and each row says how long ago the leg was listed.
Regional counts as shown on the site on 19 August 2026: North America 325, Europe 285, Africa 52, Middle East 16, Oceania 4. They move every day, which is rather the point.
Every listing is copied from a flight the operator published publicly. We check operator websites several times a day and record what they show. The first import from any new operator is checked by a person: if the fields do not map cleanly to airports, dates, aircraft, seats and price, we go back and ask rather than guess.
Each listing carries the date we last saw it, and sold or cancelled legs drop off as soon as they leave the operator's page.
Operators do not pay to appear, and there is no commission and no contract. They send the URL of their own empty legs page, we read it three times a day and pick up changes automatically, so they never have to tell us anything twice.
The same records generate the pages people actually search for. There is a page for each aircraft type we keep, showing the flights currently offered on that type, what the operator published for seats and price, and the manufacturer figures for range and cabin. There are city pages for the airports the legs touch, and seasonal collections for the coast and island destinations with legs on the list right now.
Because the pages are generated from live records, a page that has nothing on it says so. The aircraft index reads "none listed right now" rather than showing an empty shell.
Empty legs appear and sell inside a few days, so the useful product is not a search that happens to be open at the right moment. It is a standing instruction. A visitor gives a route and an email address, picks how often they want to hear, and gets told when a matching leg is listed.
The four settings are as soon as listed, daily, weekly and monthly. Consent is an unticked box, not a pre ticked one, and the unsubscribe line sits next to the button rather than in the footer.
On 19 August 2026 the list held 682 legs, 262 of them open to anyone and 420 behind a free account with no password and no card.
The search is open, the alerts are free, and operators can list without paying anything.
We build the site, the data pipeline and the pages it generates, then keep it current. Tell us what you have and what it should do.
