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By the end of this guide, you will have reviewed positioning flights detected across your trip schedule, set pricing for empty legs, and published them to the charter marketplace.
The Operations module must be enabled for your workspace. You also need the appropriate operations permissions. Contact your workspace administrator if you cannot access these features.
Publishing and pricing empty legs requires the flights.update ops permission. Any user with flights.read can view the empty legs list.

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What are empty legs?

An empty leg (also called a dead leg or positioning flight) is a flight segment where the aircraft flies without revenue passengers — typically to reposition for the next charter or to return to its home base after completing a trip. PlaneConnection automatically detects these segments by analyzing your trip schedule and flags them as opportunities to recover revenue.

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View empty legs

Go to Ops > Empty Legs. The page displays all detected positioning flights from your active trip schedule. Each row shows: Use the controls at the top of the page to narrow the list:
  • Search by route, trip number, or aircraft tail number.
  • Filter by status — toggle between Published, Unpublished, or All.
  • Filter by aircraft — select one or more tail numbers to show only their positioning flights.

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Set pricing for an empty leg

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Publish empty legs to the marketplace

To remove a leg from the marketplace, select it and click Unpublish. The leg remains in your internal list but is no longer visible to customers.

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Dead leg detection in trip creation

When you create or edit a trip, PlaneConnection automatically checks whether the routing will generate a positioning flight. If a dead leg is detected, an inline banner appears on the trip form showing the expected positioning segment, estimated flight time, and suggested pricing. You can choose to publish the detected leg directly from the trip editor.

Manage Trip Requests

Handle customer requests that come in for published empty legs.

Charter Marketplace

How the marketplace connects operators with charter customers.

Create a Trip

Full walkthrough of trip creation including dead leg detection.

Trip Statuses

Lifecycle statuses that apply once an empty leg becomes a booked trip.
Last modified on April 11, 2026