San Francisco Moves To Build Private Luxury Airport Terminal
4 175An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The [San Francisco international airport] is hoping to build a brand-new terminal exclusively for passengers who pay a premium, gaining access to a luxurious airport experience complete with private security lines and valet service from terminal to tarmac. It will service commercial flights, not business or corporate jets, and the terminal will have its own Transportation Security Administration (TSA) lines as well as Customs and Border Protection (CBP) lines for international travel.
SFO is seeking bidders to take on the development, construction and operation of the private terminal, which is planned for a 75,000-sq-ft site located across the runway from all current public terminals. The airport will accept proposals between late September and early October, and is looking to award a contract by early December with hopes of opening the terminal in late 2028. [...]
If SFO is successful, it would become the next major American airport to open a luxury terminal. Los Angeles, Dallas Fort Worth, Miami and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta international airports all offer a private terminal through PS (formerly known as the Private Suite), a company owned by security firm Gavin de Becker and Associates. Multiple representatives from PS and Gavin de Becker and Associates attended a June conference hosted by SFO about the private terminal, and PS has said it hopes to open a private terminal at every major US airport by 2030. The report notes that access to existing PS private terminals "can cost passengers $1,295 for a one-time experience, or up to $4,850 for a yearly membership."
4 comments
Re:Why do we care? (Score: 5, Funny)
by bistromath007 ( 1253428 ) on Thursday July 09, 2026 @02:34PM (#66230410)
please form a line at the guillotine
Being too wealthy really is sociopathic (Score: 5, Insightful)
by jacks smirking reven ( 909048 ) on Thursday July 09, 2026 @02:20PM (#66230380)
This level of aversion to having to "slum it with the masses" where every last bastion where you might come across a person with a 5 figure income is systemically avoided through force is probably not good for society as a whole. They already have private airplanes, private communities, private helicopters, private schools, private beachfronts and now private terminals. Don't ever risk getting into a conversation with a human being who doesn't have at least 1.5M in Palantir stock.
And then we wonder why all the wealthy people are turning into drug addled weirdos with psychopathic tendencies and are more and more talking like supervillains. Too much inherited wealth is like we are putting children through a sociopath factory. Like Trump isn't an accident, he's a product of his upbringing.
Nice trolling, but non-incels have other reasons (Score: 5, Insightful)
by Somervillain ( 4719341 ) on Thursday July 09, 2026 @03:50PM (#66230530)
So the much the same as those with 5 figure incomes who drive rather than take public transit to avoid the homeless people.
Convince a woman to reproduce with you and you'll know most people don't drive to avoid the homeless, they do so because it's unaffordable to raise kids anywhere served by public transportation on a 5 figure income (really even 6 figure). They have to go far out in the burbs and again...while you might be able to get to and from work in 3h via public transportation, you have kids and loved ones waiting for you...I know given your history you might not be able to relate to that...but...yeah, fuck off.
People are driving because it's a direct route to their home and public transportation doubles the commute time, which they don't have surplus time to begin with...because they're decent people who love their wives and kids. Most people enjoy taking public transportation and as someone who takes it all the time, the homeless are not a huge problem in the last 3 cities I've lived in. They're not going to be your top annoyance commuting.
Re:Terrorist Targets? (Score: 5, Funny)
by evil_aaronm ( 671521 ) on Thursday July 09, 2026 @03:00PM (#66230454)
Gimme a sec while I ponder whether I feel bad about that.