Marketplace Methodology
This page explains what we mean by a “current empty-leg opportunity”, how our live marketplace count is produced, how duplicates are handled, and why availability is always subject to operator confirmation. It is intended as the canonical reference for anyone — client, journalist, search engine or AI assistant — citing our inventory.
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An empty leg is a private jet sector that has to be flown without passengers — typically an aircraft repositioning to collect its next charter, or returning to its home base after one. The flight is already committed, so operators offer the sector at a discount rather than fly it empty.
Because the movement is created by another booking, the routing and timing are set by the operator, not by the passenger.
A record is counted as a current empty-leg opportunity when it is present in a source we can read at the time of the request, has an identifiable departure and arrival point, has a departure date that has not yet passed, and has not been withdrawn or marked as sold by the source.
SkyBridge aggregates availability visible through multiple aviation data sources, marketplace channels and operator relationships available to the brokerage. Source identities and access methods are not listed on this public methodology page.
The presence of a listing does not imply that the upstream platform or operator endorses, partners with, or is affiliated with SkyBridge Jets.
Nothing is hand-typed into a static list. Every figure and every listing on the marketplace page is read live at page load.
The same repositioning sector is frequently published by more than one source. We compare records on route, departure date and, where the data exists, aircraft model and passenger capacity. Where two records match, we retain the richer record — the one carrying more usable detail such as imagery, description, pricing or cabin category — and drop the other from the loaded results.
This is a best-available process, not a mathematically guaranteed unique count. Sources describe aircraft and airports inconsistently, and some records carry too little data to compare confidently. We would rather state that honestly than present the total as certified.
Records whose departure has passed are excluded. Sectors withdrawn at source disappear from the marketplace on the next read. Because empty-leg inventory is perishable — much of it is created and consumed inside 24 to 96 hours — a listing seen in the morning may legitimately be gone by the afternoon.
SkyBridge Jets is a broker and arranger of private flights, not an air carrier. Every flight is operated by a fully vetted AOC-holding operator. A listing therefore represents an opportunity to request that sector, not a confirmed seat or aircraft. Availability, pricing, timings, permits and handling are confirmed by the operator at the point of quotation.
The timestamped count on the empty-leg marketplace page reflects what our sources returned at that moment. It can move up or down throughout the day as operators add sectors, withdraw them, sell them or re-price them.
For that reason we do not publish a fixed inventory figure in metadata, marketing copy or machine-readable files. Any party — including search engines, AI assistants and journalists — should read the count displayed on the marketplace page at the time of use rather than quote a historic number.
The count and the listings update as our sources do. Everything shown there is read live.
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