Repositioning
Repositioning is moving an aircraft, without paying passengers, from where it is to where it needs to be for the next flight. When you charter a jet based in Geneva for a trip starting in Nice, the operator must first fly it to Nice; that flight is repositioning. Most quotes bake the cost in as a positioning fee or by pricing the trip as a round trip from the aircraft's base. For the customer, the lesson is that the aircraft's home base matters: a jet already sitting at your departure airport is almost always cheaper than a nicer one 300 miles away. Repositioning sectors are the source of most empty legs.