The Empty-Leg Syndrome

Credit: DASSAULT FALCON JET
From the earliest origins of flight for hire, the “empty leg,” or nonrevenue repositioning flight, has been the bane of commercial operators. Over the years, the airlines, with their large fleets, multiple city pairs and integrated schedules, learned how to minimize the losses from their movement of...

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