Empty legs versus a full charter

A full charter starts when you want, from the airport you want, with the aircraft category you specify. You pay for that control. An empty leg is already paid for by someone else’s itinerary. You step into the gap.

Family offices and PAs tend to watch empty legs for known corridors — Geneva–Ibiza, Teterboro–Miami, Luton–Nice — and keep a full charter as the fallback when the dates will not move.

If the diary is fixed to the hour, book a charter. If the diary can flex by a day, an empty leg is often the more intelligent spend.