Private Charter to New York

The two sweetest words in private aviation are "EMPTY LEG". An empty leg occurs when a private jet is chartered from a specific airport and the operator needs to fly to that airport to pick up the client. Our Denver charter company offers these otherwise empty flights to clients for a nominal price, especially at the last minute. The downside is that one has to fly back commercial, which is fine if there is convenient commercial service coming home.

Today’s trip to Teterboro NJ was the perfect storm with the right morning departure time, and enough time to pop into New York City, have lunch, see a few sights on a gorgeous 80 degree day, and get to Newark via Blade helicopter for the last United flight of the day back to Denver. Today’s empty leg is on an older close to ancient (like many Delta jets LOL) Lear 35A, a small or light jet. Capable of carrying 7 passengers, it is really only comfortable for 1 or 2 passengers on 3+ hour flight like today.   

Cloudy morning at Centennial Airport.

The Lear 35 has a cosy and comfortable couples seat at the back of the cabin.

And we're off.

A gorgeous day to fly and a smooth ride all the way to the east coast.

Exploring the cupboards and drawers...

Digital display... state of the art back in the 1970s. LOL. 

Yaass.  Found the good stuff.

Time for a drink.

No wifi or IFE but I was prepared as I had downloaded a few Netflix movies, including the entertaining McEnroe.

My self catered snack...

Three pleasant hours later, on approach to Teterboro.

Between TEB and Van Nuys, probably the biggest collection of private jets anywhere.

And my Instagram video of today's Lear 35A flight to Teterboro.