Long Island Jet Charter can help you look for empty legs to and from Long Island. An empty leg is a flight an aircraft has to make with no passengers on board, usually to return to its base or to reach its next trip, and operators sometimes sell those flights for less than a standard charter.
There are conditions. An empty leg only exists because of someone else’s trip, so if that trip moves, the empty leg can move or be canceled too. Some aircraft owners do not allow charter passengers on these flights at all, and finding one on your exact route and date can be hard, especially on summer weekends.
A normal one-way charter is usually priced to cover the aircraft getting back to base, which is why it can cost nearly as much as a round trip. With an empty leg, the aircraft is flying anyway, so the operator may only need to recover part of the cost.
Empty legs suit travelers with flexible dates and a one-way trip. In summer, aircraft often fly back to their base empty after dropping people in the Hamptons for the weekend, and in winter many come back north after taking families to Florida, so it is worth asking around those dates. If your dates are fixed, a standard charter is the safer choice, and your advisor will tell you which makes more sense. Ask about empty legs to and from Long Island on 1-888-987-5387.