
Empty leg flights to the Hamptons are discounted one-way private jet and turboprop legs into East Hampton (KHTO) — a 30-minute hop from the New York metro that produces a reliable Friday-out, Sunday-back empty-leg pattern all summer.
Sourced from FAA Part 135 charter operators repositioning aircraft into East Hampton (KHTO). Updated hourly.
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The Hamptons run on a summer rhythm, and so does the empty-leg market here. From Memorial Day through Labor Day, jets and turboprops shuttle the New York crowd east on Friday and back west on Sunday — which means the reverse legs (east on Sunday, west on Friday) reposition empty. Those counter-flow legs are the deals you book on this page, on the shortest, most-trafficked private corridor in the Northeast.
East Hampton (KHTO) is the destination field, but it operates under town noise rules and seasonal restrictions, and its runway favors lighter aircraft. Many flyers also use Francis S. Gabreski (KFOK) in Westhampton or Long Island MacArthur (KISP) as alternates. SkyAccess searches a 60-mile radius around East Hampton so a single Hamptons search surfaces empty legs across all the East End fields.
The trip itself is tiny — roughly 30 minutes wheels-up from Teterboro or Westchester — so the value here isn't distance, it's the weekend time you save versus a three-plus-hour summer drive on the Long Island Expressway. Empty-leg pricing turns that time savings into a fraction of a round-trip charter.
The summer drive from Manhattan to East Hampton can stretch past three hours each way. The flight is about 30 minutes — and an empty leg makes that time savings affordable rather than extravagant.
The weekend commute is directional, so aircraft constantly reposition against the flow. That predictable counter-flow is why Hamptons empty legs are so reliable through the season.
East Hampton and Westhampton put you a short drive from Southampton, Sag Harbor, and Montauk — no terminal, no traffic at the airport, straight to the house.
A retail one-way charter from Teterboro to East Hampton on a light jet runs roughly $5,000–$9,000 for the 30-minute hop. As an empty leg — particularly on the counter-commute direction — the same flight can clear well under that, and turboprop legs on a Pilatus PC-12 are cheaper still.
East Hampton's runway and noise rules favor light jets, very-light jets, and turboprops — the Pilatus PC-12, Phenom 100/300, and Citation CJ-series are typical, and helicopters serve the corridor too. Larger jets often use Gabreski (KFOK) in Westhampton, which has a longer runway.