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Empty-leg market data
First-party reads of the live empty-leg feed — routes, aircraft mix, geography and pricing.
ROUTES · UNITED STATES
The Van Nuys → Teterboro deadhead is the single most-repeated empty leg in the United States
Why one transcontinental pair shows up four times in a 300-leg snapshot, and what it tells you about where to actually hunt for empty-leg value.
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GEOGRAPHY · GLOBAL
The Republic of the Congo is the surprise #2 country in the global empty-leg feed
Eighteen Brazzaville-based legs outrank Canada, France and the UK in our June 2026 snapshot. The story behind the number is a lesson in how to read this market.
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FLEET · AIRCRAFT MIX
Light and midsize jets dominate empty-leg supply — not the heavy metal you'd expect
The Embraer 135ER, Learjet 60XR and Citation Ultra lead the table. Gulfstreams and Globals barely register. Here is why the supply curve looks the way it does.
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PRICING · TRANSPARENCY
Fewer than half of all empty legs publish a price — and the ones that do are quietly revealing
Only 41% of legs in our snapshot carry a price tag. The visible ones average $7,253 in USD, with a $117 outlier that almost certainly isn't a real fare.
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SEASONAL · NORTHEAST US
Cleveland → Nantucket: the empty-leg signature of a New England summer
Nantucket appears as both a top arrival and a top departure airport in June. The pattern repeats every year, and it dictates when discount supply actually opens.
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Empty Leg Market Snapshot — June 2026
The full Limitless Sky desk report: 2,728 listings, 300-leg working sample, five headline findings, four data tables, methodology. Free download, no email required.