“My top priorities in the living room are healthy and heartfelt foods, and a solid choice of cocktails and spots,” Kokoruz says. “It’s 2025 – every big hall must nail both.”
“The best spaces feel more like a high hospitality than a pre-flight ditch,” he adds.
To serve various levels of travelers, both companies and credit card companies have debuted new concepts “Lounge-Whitin-A-Lounge”-Certaintable, private spaces ideal for powerful lunch or powerful NAP. Last year, Air France introduced private apartments into its already exclusive The first Hall at Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG). These 500-square-foot shrines are connected to the main first-class lounge and have a large apartment, a bedroom with a double bed, an outdoor yard and a dedicated butler. Meanwhile, Chase’s “Reserve Suites” Private rooms with personal assistant, include a welcome caviar -service, á the carte -eating, and an inserted bathroom with Augustinus Bader. The smallest suite, with a four -person capacity, costs $ 2,200.
Facilitating airport stress
Beyond incoming amenities, facilitating airport stress for business travelers is about removing friction points. Karp says it includes “bypassing the line to enter, access a private security checkpoint, or avoid crowds at all.”
In 2023, Delta Air Lines opened an exclusive control area at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) for Delta One customers. Revealed on the incoming level, the 4,200-square-foot space not only offers white sword help (hot towel, someone?) But also special Line and direct access to the living room above.
Several US airlinesincluding American Airlines and United Airlines, allows customers to book A VIP Concierge (according to pay usage), which can meet you, check your bags, safe salon access and even escort you to the gate. However it is limited to some Hubs and is aimed at specific corporate customers.
Later, there are the airport terminals that work more like private FBOs. Here, travelers can pay to bypass the entire trading terminal, with profits as dedicated security, customs descend and be driven directly to or by the aircraft. PS (formerly called Private Suites) Offers these amenities at LAX and Atlanta (ATL). Instead of the congested entrance for pickups and leaves, travelers arrive at a separate facility across the airport.
“We are sitting in a space that has not really existed so far – the white space between a business and private air journey,” says Amina Belouizdad Porter, Director General of PS. New openings for PS are set up for Miami (My) and Dallas (DFW) in 2026.
Karp believes that this model will continue to grow, especially on the side of the Atlantic. “Europe is ahead of the United States in many ways, when it comes to offering planned airport experiences,” he notes. “I think we’ll see more here, especially for travelers accustomed to the control and calm Flying private. ”
