The ultimate in aviation luxury: Private terminal coming to world’s busiest airport in September

Atlanta –

Imagine having the ability to take off from a serious U.S. worldwide airport on a business flight with out stepping foot inside a clamorous, crowded and cavernous terminal.

If you could have sufficient coin, you don’t need to think about it. You’ll truly be capable to stay it – at the least at two massive and ceaselessly crowded U.S. airports.

A brand new non-public, luxurious terminal for individuals taking business flights is scheduled to open on September 6 at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, in keeping with operator PS in a news launch. It’s the second below the PS umbrella, with an identical non-public terminal having been open at LAX in Los Angeles since 2017.

“Opening our second PS location in America’s busiest airport will bring the countless travelers that fly to and through Atlanta the convenience and luxury that has become synonymous with the PS brand,” stated Amina Porter, CEO of PS, within the news launch. “The Atlanta Department of Aviation played a pivotal role in bringing this vision to life and we hope other airports will follow suit.”

Found internationally in locations similar to Dubai, Frankfurt and London’s Heathrow, the non-public, VIP terminal idea is getting established within the United States as properly. PS goals so as to add a terminal at Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) in spring 2024 and Miami International Airport (MIA) in 2025, it stated within the news launch.

What a PS terminal gives

PS, first established in 2017 as The Private Suite, stated its terminal “reimagines the airport experience for the seasoned and discerning traveler.” In sensible phrases, individuals utilizing the PS terminal are promised an opulent, VIP-tailored spot to attend for his or her airplane and get to keep away from the hassles concerned with the crowds in an enormous, public terminal.

Among the perks for departures:

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  A non-public TSA screening freed from strains, together with on-site customs and immigration processing on the terminal.
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  A PS host takes care of all of your baggage.
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  When it’s time to go to the plane, you’re escorted by a personal driver in a BMW to board the airplane straight from the tarmac. You can select to be within the first group or the final group to board the airplane.

While you’re ready on the terminal, it’s all about luxurious, whether or not you ebook time within the Salon lounge for a extra social expertise or a personal suite, which options “an entertainment center, fully stocked snack and beverage bar and an ensuite bathroom.” In its FAQ part of its web site, PS stated “each suite hosts up to six people comfortably and can be customized to better entertain children or pets.”

Massages and native tradition

Want much more unique facilities? PS stated friends also can “enjoy an extensive menu of cocktails and chef-prepared meals, as well as spa and beauty offerings such as massages, manicure and barber services.”

The Atlanta terminal may also characteristic components of native tradition, PS stated in its news launch, together with “an extensive collection of artworks” by Black artists.

Arrivals can share an identical expertise to departees, simply in reverse.

PS stated an agent will greet you on the plane door and escort you from the airfield to the terminal whilst you await baggage supply.

Flyers may additionally buy one thing referred to as PS Direct, wherein you bypass the terminal altogether and as an alternative get a chauffeur who takes you from flight door to your own home or resort in a BMW sedan and baggage supply on home flights.

Like the LAX terminal, the ATL terminal can have its personal non-public entry highway and parking.

How a lot does this price?

Reservations are already being accepted for PS Atlanta. Annual memberships are optionally available. With these, your value for companies is decrease. But clients also can purchase one-time packages with out an annual membership. Packages will be purchased for both one-way or round-trip service.

If you wish to take a look at the idea out, the bottom price choice is $1,095 for a one-time use (no membership) of the Salon. If you wish to max out the expertise, that can price you $4,850 for the all-access membership bundle for a 12 months.

In 2021, the journey news and recommendation website The Points Guy did a assessment of the then-new Salon part of the LAX terminal. The assessment stated that “the Salon is an incredible addition to PS, to say the least. It offers the opulence and convenience of the private suites, but at a much more reasonable price point.”

And the meals choices had been a step or three above primary terminal scorching canines or pizza. “Shortly after arriving, I was greeted with a glass of Pommery Brut Royal Champagne and a mouth-watering caviar spread.”

For a price and choices comparability, it’s $695 a 12 months for a person to hitch the Delta Air Lines Sky Club lounge program, which gives the help of a Delta “ambassador” in addition to “complimentary cocktails, fresh and healthy food options, free high-speed Wi-Fi and more” in additional than 50 airports serviced by the Atlanta-based airline. Some areas even have showers. But you gained’t get a personal safety screening or a journey on to your airplane.