How to fly empty legs

Where empty legs appear

Empty legs follow one way demand. Friday flights from London, Paris and Milan to the Riviera, the Alps or the islands come back empty on Friday or Saturday; Sunday evening returns leave aircraft in the city that fly back to the resorts on Monday. Seasonal flows do the same on a larger scale: towards the Mediterranean in June, back in September, the Alps in winter.

• Empty leg flights in EuropeThe corridors where they appear most.→

Set an alert, not a search

Legs appear and go within hours. Searching once a week rarely finds one; an alert on your route does. On the Atljet empty legs page you leave the route and how to reach you, and the desk writes as soon as a matching leg appears.

• Live empty legs and alertsThe legs flying now, and an alert for your route.→

How to book one

Say yes quickly, with the names of the passengers and their documents ready. The leg is confirmed when the operator accepts and the price is paid. Ask what happens if the original flight moves: a good desk tells you how firm the leg is and proposes an alternative if it falls.

If your date is fixed, ask the desk to price the trip as a charter and as a possible empty leg. Sometimes an aircraft that is already flying your way makes a normal charter cheaper even when no empty leg is published.

What you will pay