If you’re looking for the best flight deals, probably the last thing you'd think of doing is taking a private jet. But consider this: roughly 30 percent of all private jets in the air are flying empty. This gives charter companies an opportunity to sell their inventory of “empty legs” to try to recoup some of the costs of flying an empty aircraft, and it gives you a chance to fly like a Fortune 100 CEO.
There are two scenarios that create empty legs (also called “deadhead” flights). In one, a plane sitting in New York has a charter starting in Las Vegas so it has to fly to the pickup point without passengers.
