Empty Leg Market Report — June 2026

The busiest month we've tracked. The fleet went big for summer.

June posted 15,214 new empty legs, a monthly record and 7% above May's 14,198. Volume held near 3,500 new listings every week, peaking the week of June 8 at 3,718. The story wasn't the total, it was the mix. Every cabin class grew except midsize, and the light jet value window we flagged in May closed.

15,214 new empty legs tracked across 125 active operators, a new monthly record
3,035 active legs heading into July, with $10,648 average asking price
Volume stayed heavy all month: the week of June 8 peaked at 3,718 new listings, but every full week cleared 3,300
Turboprop new legs up 29%, ultra-long-range 30%, heavy 22%, super-mid 20% month over month
Midsize the only category that fell: from 6,159 new legs in May to 5,626 in June

Weekly new listings

The fleet went big

May was a light jet story. June was the opposite. Midsize was the only cabin that lost ground month over month, while both ends of the fleet expanded:

Turboprop: 541 → 696 new legs (+29%)
Ultra Long Range: 156 → 202 new legs (+30%)
Very Light Jet: 1,013 → 1,245 new legs (+23%)
Heavy: 1,693 → 2,065 new legs (+22%)
Super Midsize: 1,650 → 1,976 new legs (+20%)
Midsize: 6,159 → 5,626 new legs (-9%), the only category down

Summer changes who flies. Bigger groups and longer trips pull demand toward heavy and super-mid on one end, and turboprops on regional resort runs on the other. Midsize, the transactional workhorse of the empty leg market, gave up share at both ends. It was 37% of new June legs, down from 43% in May.

We called the light jet floor

In May's report we flagged the light jet average at $6,700, the lowest we'd recorded, and wrote that the window probably wouldn't survive June graduations and the start of summer travel. It didn't.

Light jet active asking: ~$6,700 end of May → ~$7,500 end of June (+11%)
Supply rose at the same time: 548 → 601 active light legs, and prices still firmed
New light jet legs climbed 14%: 2,156 in May to 2,461 in June. More inventory, higher prices, demand outran supply
Midsize went the other way: active asking fell from ~$13,300 to ~$11,000

The reversal was textbook. Cheap inventory draws buyers, buyers absorb supply, prices firm. The value cabin rotated from light to midsize in a single month. If you fly 7 to 9 passengers, midsize is now the cheapest it's been in our data.

For the flexible traveler

Midsize is the value cabin now. 676 active legs at ~$11,000 average, the deepest and cheapest mid-cabin market we've tracked. It's the one category that got cheaper in June.
Summer resort repositioning is live. Boise to McCall ran 18 legs two-way, Calgary to Kelowna 19, as mountain and lake-country aircraft moved for the season.
Aspen to Vegas is still hidden inventory. Repositioning legs posted out of Pitkin County in June, the same late-spring pattern that runs into July as ski-season aircraft head out.
The Great Plains network keeps running. Lincoln, NE (57 active departures) and Omaha (32) held top-10 ranks, with Kearney to Lincoln running 18 legs two-way.

What to watch in July

July 4 staging. Memorial Day drove May's single biggest week. Expect the days before the Fourth to spike as operators position the fleet for the holiday.
Mountain West at peak. Aspen, Jackson Hole, Bozeman, and McCall build through July as fly-fishing, ranch, and resort season hits stride.
Tri-state share season. Teterboro (72) and Westchester (37) are loaded into July. Nantucket, the Cape, and the Hamptons run hard through Labor Day.
The midsize floor. June's ~$11,000 average is the softest mid-cabin pricing in our data. Demand usually firms in peak summer, so the window may be short.

Busiest corridors

Top departure airports (active legs into July)

Vegas / LA basin: 107 from Vegas, 97 from Van Nuys. KLAS→KVNY (14 legs) and KVNY→KLAS (8) put up 22 two-way, still the deepest corridor in the country.
Mountain and lake country: Boise↔McCall ran 18 legs two-way, Calgary↔Kelowna 19. Summer resort repositioning at full tilt.
Teterboro / NYC metro: 72 from KTEB plus 37 from Westchester (KHPN). KLGA↔KCHO (LaGuardia to Charlottesville) held at 12 two-way, the UVA-area pattern that's run all spring.
South Florida: Opa-Locka posted 57 active departures, Fort Lauderdale Executive 30. Marsh Harbour to Fort Lauderdale carried 6 legs, Bahamas aircraft repositioning ahead of hurricane season.
Great Plains positioning: Lincoln, NE (57) and Omaha (32) in the top 10 again. KEAR↔KLNK (Kearney to Lincoln) ran 18 legs two-way, a steady regional shuttle.

What empty legs cost right now

Average asking price by category

Category	Avg Price	What you get
Very Light Jet	~$2,100	4-5 seats, routes under 600nm
Turboprop	~$3,500	6-9 seats, regional routes
Light Jet	~$7,500	5-7 seats, coast-to-coast capable
Midsize	~$11,000	7-9 seats, transcontinental range
Super Midsize	~$13,000	Stand-up cabin, 8-10 seats
Heavy	~$15,500	10-16 seats, intercontinental
Ultra Long Range	~$33,600	12-19 seats, nonstop transatlantic

Sample size note: Very light jet (18 priced), turboprop (29), and ultra-long-range (3) each had thin priced samples, so treat those figures as directional. Midsize at 231 priced listings is the deepest and most reliable market, and the easiest segment to comparison-shop. Light (96) and super-mid (107) are solid too. About 18% of active legs carry a public price, so these averages track the priced subset.

Category breakdown

Active legs by aircraft category

Midsize stayed the largest single category at 676 active legs, 22% of the market, but its lead narrowed. Light held second at 601 as supply grew. Heavy (555) and super-mid (453) both expanded on the back of summer's bigger-group demand. Turboprop cracked double digits at 291 legs, 10% of active inventory and its highest share in our data, driven by regional resort runs.