Empty leg flights from Phoenix

Phoenix operates as a two-season charter market. The corporate side runs year-round, anchored by traffic from Intel, Honeywell Aerospace, Avnet, Freeport-McMoRan, and a cluster of financial services and semiconductor companies that have built operations in the metro over the past two decades. The leisure side mirrors South Florida: from November through April, aircraft arrive from Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, and Cleveland carrying winter residents, and those aircraft often leave empty, creating northbound repositioning legs back to the Midwest at below-charter rates.

The Cactus League spring training season concentrates private jet demand from mid-February through late March. Ten MLB teams train at venues spread across the Phoenix metro: Peoria, Surprise, Goodyear, Glendale, Scottsdale, Tempe, and Chandler. Owner, front office, sponsor, and media travel between Phoenix and each team's home city runs steadily for six weeks and produces short-duration legs that no other market replicates at this scale.

Las Vegas is Phoenix's highest-volume short-haul corridor. The 290-mile route takes 55-65 minutes in a light jet and runs multiple times per day. It produces the most consistent empty leg supply of any Phoenix route, with demand sustained year-round by weekend leisure travel and the Las Vegas business conference and gaming convention calendar.

Phoenix Deer Valley Airport (KDVT) is the city's dedicated private aviation hub, 25 miles north of downtown Phoenix. Cutter Aviation, a family-owned company founded in 1928, operates the FBO. The airport handles all aircraft up to heavy jets. It sits where the Loop 101 and I-17 freeways intersect, close to North Phoenix, Paradise Valley, and the Scottsdale corporate corridor. Ground time to downtown Phoenix is 25-30 minutes; to offices along the Loop 101 in the North Valley, 10-15 minutes.

Phoenix Goodyear Airport (KGYR) covers the western suburbs: Goodyear, Avondale, and the communities along I-10 West. Western Aviation operates the FBO. Goodyear is the correct arrival airport for Goodyear Ballpark (the Cleveland Guardians and Cincinnati Reds spring training site) and for guests headed to the expanding residential and industrial corridor in the West Valley. It handles midsize jets and typically runs well below capacity.

Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (KIWA) serves the eastern metro, from Chandler and Gilbert through southeast Mesa. Gateway reduces drive time for guests headed to Intel's Chandler manufacturing campus, the aerospace suppliers clustered in Gilbert, and Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, where the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies hold spring training. The airport handles jets up to heavy size.

Empty legs departing from Phoenix currently range from $3,500 to $15,000. The average listed price sits around $8,416. Broken down by aircraft: midsize jets averaging $6,250, heavy jets averaging $13,900, light jets averaging $15,000.

Popular routes with current pricing: Las Vegas, NV at $3,500-$5,600; Calgary, AB at $15,000; Jackson, WY at $7,900. Route availability rotates as operators reposition aircraft, so today's routes may differ from next week's.

We track 54 active legs from this area. 6 have published prices; the rest are quote-on-request. Operators often add pricing closer to the departure date, so checking back frequently or setting an alert catches deals as they appear.