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SocialFlights also posts one-way empty legs.

Other brokers and private jet operators like JetSuite also make empty legs available to individual travelers, so it can pay to shop around.

USE A BROKER TO FIND YOU THE BEST DEAL If you don't have the time or inclination to hunt online for empty legs or to organize your own charter flight, you can hire a broker to do it for you.

"The dirty little secret of the industry is, about a third of our flights are empty," said Alex Wilcox, chief executive of JetSuite, based in Southern California, which recently began posting last-minute $499 deals on Facebook for empty legs on the company's four-passenger Embraer Phenom aircraft.

SEARCH FOR LAST-MINUTE, ONE-WAY DISCOUNTS Air Partner, a charter broker based in London, introduced emptysectors.com last year, to help fill so-called empty legs (when the aircraft flies without passengers back to base or between jobs) at discounted rates.

Jets flying empty legs to pick up passengers is a commonly cited issue keeping prices high.

To get the cheapest seats, customers need to book on an empty leg.

SPLIT THE COST THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA For travelers who can't find an empty leg to meet their schedule, social media is opening up new avenues to private jet travel.

Last month, Mike Lewis, chief executive of a property management company in Los Angeles, was able to score one of JetSuite's $499 Facebook deals for himself and his girfriend for a last-minute empty leg on a four-passenger plane to Tucson.

An empty leg flight is when a private plane needs to reposition itself to a different city – to meet its owner or pick up new charter passengers.

But snagging an empty leg can cost you around as low as 15percentt as that.