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Empty leg flights to and from Bristol

Bristol is the airport for the whole of the west of England and for a good deal of south Wales, and it sits in an odd place: eight miles from the city, on Broadfield Down at the northern edge of the Mendip Hills, six hundred and twenty feet above sea level. That elevation is not a detail. It shapes what can leave here with a full load, and it explains why the fog comes in when the coast is clear.

For repositioning sectors the picture is unusually good on short routes and unusually thin on long ones. Cardiff is barely half an hour gate to gate and the Channel Islands under an hour, and the first of those is among the least expensive sectors we place. What Bristol does not produce is transatlantic bargains, and the runway is the reason.

BRS / EGGD

Lulsgate Bottom, eight miles south west of the city

2,011 m

single runway 09/27, comfortable up to super midsize jets

622 ft

unusually high for a British airport, and it affects performance

24 hours

round the clock handling at a dedicated private terminal

Empty legs from Bristol right now

The board below shows what our operator network has released on western routes. Bristol produces fewer sectors than the London fields, and the distances that matter here are short enough to keep the prices modest.

Empty legs compared with jet sharing

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Date	From	To	Aircraft	Passengers	Price
2 Nov 2026	Bristol International, GB (BRS/EGGD)	Ibiza, ES (IBZ/LEIB)	Bombardier Global 6000	12	14,300 GBP	Request
24 Nov 2026	London Luton, GB (LTN/EGGW)	Bristol, GB (BRS/EGGD)	Embraer Legacy 600	13	15,900 GBP	Request
25 Nov 2026	London Luton, GB (LTN/EGGW)	Bristol, GB (BRS/EGGD)	Embraer Legacy 600	13	10,800 GBP	Request

Prices are for the whole aircraft and are shown in pounds. Some are indicative figures worked out from the distance and the class of jet; the firm price is confirmed with the operator when you send a request.

Typical empty leg prices from Bristol

Guide prices for the whole aircraft, in pounds, on the corridors that produce repositioning sectors most often. These are not live offers and carry no dates: what is available right now is in the schedule on this page. The charter column is the same aircraft booked on your own dates.

Route	Aircraft	Seats	Flight time	Empty leg from	Charter from
Bristol to Cardiff	Pilatus PC-12	8	0h 35m	1,800 GBP	4,200 GBP
Bristol to Jersey	Learjet 75	8	0h 45m	3,200 GBP	7,600 GBP
Bristol to Guernsey	Learjet 75	8	0h 45m	3,200 GBP	7,600 GBP
Bristol to London	Citation CJ2	6	0h 50m	2,600 GBP	6,300 GBP
Bristol to Manchester	Citation CJ2	6	0h 55m	2,600 GBP	6,300 GBP
Bristol to Dublin	Pilatus PC-12	8	1h 00m	1,800 GBP	4,200 GBP
Bristol to Paris	Citation CJ2	6	1h 10m	2,600 GBP	6,300 GBP
Bristol to Edinburgh	Citation CJ3	7	1h 15m	2,900 GBP	6,800 GBP
Bristol to Amsterdam	Citation M2	6	1h 15m	2,400 GBP	5,400 GBP
Bristol to Geneva	Citation CJ3	7	1h 45m	3,900 GBP	9,400 GBP
Bristol to Zurich	Citation XLS+	8	1h 50m	5,800 GBP	13,800 GBP
Bristol to Chambery	Citation XLS+	8	1h 55m	6,100 GBP	14,500 GBP
Bristol to Milan	Phenom 300	7	2h 00m	4,700 GBP	11,300 GBP
Bristol to Nice	Citation XLS+	8	2h 00m	6,300 GBP	15,100 GBP
Bristol to Palma de Mallorca	Citation XLS+	8	2h 20m	7,400 GBP	17,600 GBP
Bristol to Ibiza	Hawker 900XP	8	2h 20m	7,500 GBP	17,900 GBP
Bristol to Faro	Praetor 600	9	2h 25m	9,900 GBP	23,500 GBP
Bristol to Olbia	Challenger 604	12	2h 25m	12,500 GBP	29,800 GBP
Bristol to Malaga	Challenger 300	9	2h 35m	10,200 GBP	24,300 GBP

Both columns assume an aircraft already at the departure airport, so no positioning flight is billed. Where an operator has to fly one in to collect you, a charter can run considerably higher than the figure shown. Prices also run in both directions: an empty leg exists only when an operator is moving that aircraft anyway, so the sector you want may run the other way this month. Tell us the route and we will watch both directions for you.

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Where Bristol sectors come from

Three things move private aircraft in and out of the west, and two of them have nothing to do with holidays.

Aerospace flies its own people

Bristol builds aircraft. Airbus and Rolls-Royce have major sites a few miles north of the city, and the corporate shuttles that serve them, Toulouse in particular, have run out of this airport since the old works airfield closed. Industrial travel of that kind runs to a weekly rhythm and leaves aircraft out of position constantly.

The March racing week

Cheltenham is about an hour up the road and its festival is one of the heaviest weeks of private flying in the country. The fields nearest the course cannot absorb it, so aircraft spill outwards, and Bristol takes a share of both the arrivals and the departures that follow.

Short hops in every direction

Cardiff, Jersey, Guernsey and Exeter are all under an hour, and aircraft shuffle between them constantly. Add the London fleets fifty minutes east, which come west for a job and then have to go home, and a good share of what lands here is already on its way somewhere else.

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Bristol Airport in detail

What the field can take, when it is open, how the handling works and what happens on the ground.

Codes	BRS (IATA), EGGD (ICAO)
Location	Lulsgate Bottom in North Somerset, eight miles south west of Bristol city centre, on Broadfield Down at the northern edge of the Mendip Hills
Elevation	622 feet, which is high for a British airport and worth knowing about. On a warm day an aircraft needs more runway here than it would at sea level, and low cloud sits on the hills when the Severn estuary a few miles north is clear
Runway	A single runway, 09/27, 2,011 m of asphalt. Comfortable for anything up to a super midsize jet on a European sector. Combined with the elevation, it makes a long range departure at full weight a calculation rather than an assumption
Operating hours	The airfield operates around the clock, and the business aviation terminal handles flights twenty four hours a day
Slots	Required, and shared with a scheduled operation carrying over ten million passengers a year. Your handler arranges them with the flight
Customs and border control	Available at the private terminal, so an international arrival clears there rather than in the airline halls. It is arranged with the flight rather than assumed
Private terminals	A dedicated business aviation centre on its own site away from the passenger building, with a second handler also working the private traffic
Ground services	Fuelling, de icing, hangarage, in flight catering, ground transport and concierge support, with direct ramp access for vehicles where the operator allows it
Traffic	Around 10.8 million passengers in 2025, which makes it the eighth busiest airport in the United Kingdom

The private terminal

The business aviation centre sits on its own site well away from the passenger building, with its own entrance and car park. It is a full service facility rather than a room with chairs: on site security screening, two passenger lounges, two crew lounges and a customs arrival area, so visitors never enter the main terminal at all. A second handler works the same traffic alongside it.

ARRIVING

Park a few metres from the aircraft

The car turns off before the passenger building and stops at the business aviation centre, where somebody meets you by name. Aircraft stand within metres of the door, and an airside transfer straight to the steps is available on request where the operator allows it.

BAGGAGE

Screened on site, not in the terminal

Baggage is screened inside the private facility on its own equipment, so nothing goes near the main building. The caveat here is weight rather than shape: at this elevation an aircraft leaving on a warm afternoon has less margin than it would at a coastal field, so a heavy load is worth mentioning with the enquiry.

FORMALITIES

Customs come to you

There is a customs arrival area inside the building, so an international flight is cleared at the private terminal rather than in the airline halls. It is arranged for the flight in advance. A domestic departure is usually a walk from the door to the aircraft and nothing else.

WAITING

Two lounges, and one of them takes sixty

A quiet VIP lounge with refreshments, wireless internet, a television and meeting rooms, and a second, larger lounge that seats up to sixty with its own check in desk. That capacity suits touring parties and corporate groups, who would otherwise be driving to London.

ON BOARD

Catering and cars in one call

In flight catering, ground transport and concierge requests all go through the same team as the handling. On a short western sector most people take coffee and something cold, which is the right call for a fifty minute flight.

ON THE RAMP

Sixteen large aircraft, and fuel on the ramp

The apron here takes sixteen large aircraft at once and the fuel is dispensed by the handler from its own trucks rather than queued for. Sustainable aviation fuel is available if the operator wants it, which not every regional field can offer.

WEATHER

Hill fog, and where it comes from

The high ground here makes its own low cloud, and Bristol can be sitting in it while Cardiff across the water is in sunshine. It is not a frequent problem, but on a morning that cannot slip it is worth a margin and a word about the alternate.

A quarter of an hour before a domestic departure and half an hour before an international one covers it comfortably. Which handler you use is decided by the operator on an empty leg, and the building, the address and the crew contact all appear in the flight brief.

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What the ground costs

Bristol is inexpensive by southern standards and the numbers that move a quote here are not the usual ones.

No out of hours

the private terminal works around the clock, so a night movement carries no opening fee

Two handlers

enough competition to be worth comparing, not enough to start a price war

De icing

more often than the latitude suggests, because of the height of the field

Positioning

smaller here than in Scotland, because London is fifty minutes away

That last point is the quiet advantage of the west. A charter from Bristol on a London based aircraft carries a positioning flight of under an hour, which is a fraction of what the same arrangement costs from Aberdeen or Inverness. It means charter prices here start closer to London prices than the map suggests, and it means the gap an empty leg closes is smaller in pounds than it would be in Scotland, because there was less to close in the first place.

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The other fields in the west

The west of England is unusually well supplied with usable airfields, and on the right trip one of them beats Bristol comfortably.

Gloucestershire, at Staverton. Between Gloucester and Cheltenham, with direct motorway access and the racecourse twelve minutes away by car. The obvious answer for the Cotswolds and for racing week, and a much shorter drive than Bristol from that side of the region.

Cotswold Airport, at Kemble. A private general aviation field near Cirencester with a two kilometre runway. Quiet, unhurried and genuinely in the Cotswolds rather than near them.

Cardiff, CWL. Twenty minutes across the estuary by air and about an hour round by road. A longer runway than Bristol and a quieter ramp, which occasionally makes it the better field for a larger aircraft.

Exeter, EXT. An hour and a half south west by road and the right answer for Devon, Cornwall and the south coast. Worth accepting on a sector if that is where you are actually going.

One field you will still see advertised. Filton, the old works aerodrome north of the city with its long Concorde runway, closed to aviation at the end of 2012 and is now a housing and arena development. It still turns up in some airport lists. If you are offered a flight from it, the aircraft is going somewhere else.

Getting into the city and across the region

Bristol Airport sits south west of the city rather than beside it, which suits Somerset and Bath better than it suits the centre. These are typical off peak times by road.

Destination	By car	Notes
Bristol city centre	25 to 40 min	Eight miles, but on country roads for the first part of it rather than a motorway
Bath	35 to 50 min	Straightforward, and a good deal of the private traffic here is going to Bath rather than Bristol
The Mendips and north Somerset	15 to 30 min	The airport is already in this countryside, which few airports can say
Cardiff and south Wales	55 to 80 min	Over the Severn crossing. A sector into Cardiff itself takes half an hour gate to gate instead
Cheltenham and the Cotswolds	60 to 90 min	Gloucestershire Airport is far shorter if the Cotswolds are the destination
Exeter and east Devon	80 to 110 min	Down the M5, and the point at which Exeter starts to make more sense

There is no railway station at the airport, so the car is the answer at this end of the journey. Helicopter transfers are arranged alongside the flight where the destination has a landing site, which in this part of the country usually means a country house or an event rather than a city centre.

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Popular destinations from Bristol, and which way they run empty

A handful of routes generate sectors week after week while most produce nothing at all. These are the first kind, and the top of the list is worth a second look: Cardiff starts at 1,800 GBP for the whole aircraft, and the Channel Islands are under an hour away.

Destination	Flight time	Empty leg from	Peak	Which direction runs empty
Cardiff	0h 35m	1,800 GBP	All year	Both. Across the estuary and down again, and one of the least expensive sectors we place
Jersey	0h 45m	3,200 GBP	April to October	Both. Banking and family traffic, and one of the most dependable short hops in the west
Guernsey	0h 45m	3,200 GBP	April to October	Both. The same pattern as Jersey, at slightly lower frequency
London	0h 50m	2,600 GBP	All year, weekdays	Both. Short enough that the drive to the airport matters more than the flight
Manchester	0h 55m	2,600 GBP	All year	Both. Straightforward domestic business traffic in both directions
Dublin	1h 00m	1,800 GBP	All year	Both. Business in both directions, with rugby weekends on top
Paris	1h 10m	2,600 GBP	All year	Both. The aerospace corridor as much as the business one
Edinburgh	1h 15m	2,900 GBP	All year	Both. A long domestic sector that flying genuinely shortens
Amsterdam	1h 15m	2,400 GBP	All year, weekdays	Both. Corporate day returns, released back west in the late afternoon
Geneva	1h 45m	3,900 GBP	December to March	Back to Bristol. The bargain is the flight home from the Alps
Zurich	1h 50m	5,800 GBP	All year	Both. Business traffic keeps it alive outside the ski season
Chambery	1h 55m	6,100 GBP	January to March	Back to Bristol, and it empties hard in the second half of March
Milan	2h 00m	4,700 GBP	All year	Both. Industrial and aerospace rather than fashion from this end
Nice	2h 00m	6,300 GBP	May to September	Back to Bristol in summer, outbound in the shoulder weeks
Palma de Mallorca	2h 20m	7,400 GBP	June to September	Back to Bristol. Friday out and Sunday back are the expensive halves
Ibiza	2h 20m	7,500 GBP	June to September	Back to Bristol, with the best value in June and September
Faro	2h 25m	9,900 GBP	April to October	Both. Golf traffic keeps this running well outside the summer peak
Olbia	2h 25m	12,500 GBP	July and August	Back to Bristol. Low frequency from the west, so register the route
Malaga	2h 35m	10,200 GBP	April to October	Both. A long season and a steady supply of returns

There is no New York and no Dubai in that table, and the reason is a combination of the runway and the height of the field rather than a lack of demand. A long range jet leaving Bristol on a warm day may not be able to take full fuel, so a genuinely long haul trip is planned with a stop or with a short positioning leg to a longer field.

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Arriving in Bristol from abroad

The formalities are the same as at any British airport, and at this one they happen at the private terminal rather than in the public halls.

Passenger details go in with the booking. Every passenger is submitted with a full name, a date of birth, a nationality and a passport number. The operator files a General Aviation Report on each international movement, and that filing closes some hours ahead of the flight rather than at the gate.
Electronic travel authorisation. Visitors from countries that do not need a visa now require an ETA before travelling to the UK, and it applies on a private flight exactly as it does on a scheduled one.
Customs attend the flight. Officers come to the business aviation centre rather than processing you in the terminal, and it is arranged in advance rather than on arrival.
Air Passenger Duty on departures. Charged per passenger leaving a UK airport and shown as its own line in any quote we send, rather than folded into the total.

Empty leg calendar for Bristol, month by month

Bristol has a calendar shaped by two things that have nothing to do with each other: an aerospace industry that flies all year, and a racing week in March that pulls spare aircraft from across the west of England towards Cheltenham.

Demand
How hard the West Country is pulling on aircraft, and what that does to a charter price.

Empty legs
How many repositioning sectors reach the market, and how deep the discounts run.

January

QuietGood

The quietest month of the year and one of the cheapest. Alpine returns carry most of what moves, and a slot is never a problem.

February

SteadyGood

Half term fills the outbound to the Alps while the aerospace corridor keeps working. Midweek returns are the value.

March

Very busyThin

Cheltenham week is the single heaviest few days of private flying in the West Country, and the pressure reaches Bristol because the racecourse fields cannot take everything. Book a charter well ahead.

April

SteadyStrong

The spring shoulder and the best month here. The racing has cleared, the Mediterranean has not started, and repositioning runs in both directions.

May

SteadyStrong

Long daylight, easy slots and soft prices. The Channel Islands season opens and the first Riviera sectors appear.

June

BusyFair

The Mediterranean opens properly and the corporate calendar peaks before the summer. In the years the festival runs, the last weekend of the month is the other one to watch: Glastonbury sits about twenty miles away and fills this apron with everything from light jets to corporate airliners.

July

BusyFair

Peak Iberia and Balearics. Friday out and Sunday back carry the premium, so look at midweek departures instead.

August

BusyFair

Summer at full stretch while corporate Bristol empties out. Leisure sectors keep appearing and business ones almost vanish.

September

BusyStrong

The best month after April. The aerospace year restarts, the Mediterranean unwinds and the fleets move north again.

October

SteadyStrong

The autumn shoulder, with easy capacity and steady repositioning. Prices are as soft as they get before November.

November

QuietFair

Lowest demand of the year and cheap sectors, though fewer of them. Hill fog on the high ground around the airport is a genuine planning factor rather than a footnote.

December

BusyThin

Two halves. The first fortnight is quiet, then the Alps and the holidays arrive together and almost nothing is released.

April, September and October are the months to aim for, with May close behind. The week to plan around is the racing in March: aircraft come into every field within an hour of Cheltenham, including this one, and a sector you were counting on will not appear.

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Three situations, three answers

Four people to Jersey for a long weekend

About as good as this product gets. Forty five minutes in the air, a sector that starts from around 3,200 GBP for the whole aircraft, and an island where the airport is a short drive from anywhere.

Cheltenham in March

Book early and expect to pay properly. Gloucestershire is twelve minutes from the course and fills first, Bristol takes the overflow, and waiting for a sector in that week is the one plan that reliably fails.

A long haul departure with a full cabin

Worth a conversation before you assume it. Two kilometres of runway at six hundred and twenty feet on a warm afternoon is a real limit, and starting from a lower, longer field can cost less than the fuel stop it saves you.

Travelling with a dog or a cat

Going out, the requirements are set by wherever you are landing, and we deal with them as part of the booking. The return into Great Britain is the awkward half: an approved operator and an approved route are both needed, and not every operator is approved for every airport.

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Bristol is an approved point of entry for a number of charter operators, but not for all of them, so an animal returning from Europe on the wrong operator may have to land in the London area and continue by road. The Channel Islands and Ireland are the exceptions worth knowing about, and they happen to be the routes this airport flies most. Mention the animal when you first write to us and the routing gets built around it rather than adjusted afterwards.

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Questions about flying private from Bristol

Does the elevation really matter?

On most flights, no. On a warm afternoon with a full cabin and a long sector ahead, yes. Six hundred and twenty feet means thinner air and a longer take off run, and combined with a two kilometre runway it turns a heavy departure into a calculation the operator has to make rather than a formality.

Can I fly from Filton?

No. Filton closed to aviation at the end of 2012 and the site is being redeveloped, although it still turns up in some airport lists. If a quote arrives with Filton on it, ask which airport the aircraft is actually using.

Why are the short sectors such good value?

Because they are barely flights. Cardiff is half an hour gate to gate and Jersey forty five minutes, and an operator repositioning across that distance would far rather sell the aircraft than burn the fuel for nothing.

Bristol or Gloucestershire?

Bristol for the city, Bath, Somerset and anything larger than a midsize jet. Gloucestershire for the Cotswolds, Cheltenham and the north of the region, where it saves an hour in the car. On an empty leg you take whichever the sector uses.

Can I fly at night?

Yes. Both the airfield and the private terminal work around the clock, so unlike several regional airports there is no out of hours opening charge for a late arrival or an early departure.

How quickly can you arrange a departure?

Three to four hours on a normal day. Bristol is close enough to the London fleets that an aircraft can be brought across in under an hour if nothing local is free, which is a luxury the Scottish cities do not have.

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