Where every number
on this site comes from.
The short answer
Two sources, both live. Charter ranges come from Villiers' pricing tool, queried per corridor. Empty-leg prices come from offers currently listed. Hourly rates are calculated by us, dividing 79 real offer prices by their scheduled flight times. Nothing on this site is modelled, estimated by hand, or carried over from an old figure.
What we publish, and from where
| Charter price ranges | Villiers pricing tool, queried per corridor65 corridors · refreshed daily |
|---|---|
| Empty-leg offers | Villiers live feed94 live · 9 departure hubs · refreshed daily |
| Hourly rates | Calculated by us: offer price ÷ scheduled duration8 aircraft · 79 offers analysed |
| Flight times | Great-circle distance, plus a block-time allowanceValidated against feed durations — Houston to Dallas models 55 min against 57 observed |
| Airport data | ICAO codes and names as reported by the operator |
Rules we hold ourselves to
A page carries a price only when a real source backs it
Corridors without a live quote or a live offer are published without a price and excluded from search indexing. We would rather show nothing than a figure we cannot stand behind.
Single-category quotes are treated as unreliable
When the pricing tool returns only one aircraft category, we discard it. That response pattern coincides with figures that are visibly wrong — a 30 km hop quoted at $9,101 — so we require at least two categories before publishing.
Currencies are never converted
Every price appears in the currency it was quoted in. A converted figure depends on an exchange rate we would have to choose, and a stale rate makes a real price into a wrong one.
Expired offers are removed, not left to rot
Empty legs expire on departure and are filtered out at build time. Roughly 40% of the feed departs within five days, so the site rebuilds daily.
What this site cannot tell you
The limits matter as much as the figures.
- These are not bookable prices. Charter ranges are indicative. The bookable number comes from a confirmed quote against real aircraft availability on your date.
- Hourly rates are a floor, not a charter rate. They are derived from empty legs, which are discounted repositioning flights. On-demand charter costs more.
- Coverage is uneven. The pricing tool covers a defined network well and says so explicitly when it cannot price a route. Many airport pairs return no indicative price at all — those get no page.
- Empty-leg supply is concentrated. It is overwhelmingly North American and driven by where operators reposition aircraft, not by where demand is.
- We are an affiliate. Independent affiliate of Villiers Jets. We may earn a commission on bookings confirmed through our links. That relationship does not change any figure shown here — every price comes from the source above, unedited.
Corrections
If a figure here contradicts a quote you were given, we want to know — a wrong number is worse for us than a missing one. This page records what changed and when, and we correct in place rather than quietly deleting.