MIA’s First Private Terminal Coming Soon: Get Driven To Your Plane, Even On Commercial Flights

Passengers at Miami International Airport will soon be able to avoid the main terminals and be driven directly to their planes, even when flying commercial.

The service includes a new private terminal known as PS Miami.

The historic Pan American Airways Regional Headquarters will be renovated to create the new terminal, with architect Richard Heisenbottle overseeing the restoration.

The 2-story building is known as building 874, with about 19,500 square feet of leasable space designated as historical by the Miami-Dade County Historic Preservation Board. It is located on the north side of MIA, facing N.W. 36th Street, at N.W. 49th Avenue.

Members and guests will be able to use a lounge in the terminal, with both indoor and outdoor courtyard space. Dining, bars, meeting rooms and a spa are among the amenities planned.

There will also be private suites with balconies, allowing complete privacy while waiting for your plane.

TSA screening will also be offered in the terminal, as will U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

At boarding time, passengers will be driven to their flights at any terminal at the airport. Pickup service is also available upon arrival.

PS already has a location at LAX in Los Angeles, with additional terminals planned at Dallas Fort Worth and Atlanta airports.

It costs around $1000 per use for lounge access, or nearly $5,000 for a suite, according to the PS website. Memberships are also offered.

PS Miami is scheduled to open in 2025.

 

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Anon
18 days ago

Beautiful adaptive reuse of an abandoned mid century gem – looking forward to seeing MIA’s upgrades over the next decade

Anonymous
18 days ago

Must be nice to be rich.

Anonymous
18 days ago

All the terminals should look like this – that’s how every major city does it. One day!

Anonymous
18 days ago

If MIA is crowded as it is, it would be sardines in a can by your logic.

Anonymous
18 days ago

I mean something stylish like this but on a massive scale

Bruno
17 days ago

No way!
Most people cannot create enough value to their fellow human beings to receive the money it takes to pay for a $1,000 airport lounge pass.

Name*
16 days ago

What a dismal look on society. Most airport lounges look like this for standard terminals, not the current one that looks dated after a recent renovation. Brightline terminals are the gold standard for mass scale private enterprise, should all look elevated. Still don’t understand this one.

Bruno
17 days ago

Inspiring!

Anonymous
16 days ago

Looks nice but not 1000 dollar per use nice. This looks standard quality in most cities.

Cover the Podiums
18 days ago

I’m too poor to understand the need for this

Alpina
18 days ago

Don’t worry, you are not the only one; I believe one has to be way too rich to have this option

*NAME*
18 days ago

Streamlined travel has always been something I will pay extra for. It’s not private jet travel, but it’s better than the nonsense that is MIA, or LAX where this concept is operating. Time is money, and if this saves me an hour on the front and hour on the back end, well worth $1k.

Anonymous
17 days ago

$1k to save a couple hours time???? That’s great if you make over $500/hr. Hardly anyone does though.

anonymous
18 days ago

Now if we can only get the escalators and the moving (not moving) walkways in the existing terminals, then we’ll be set.

Bruno
17 days ago

Escalators never break. They just turn into stairs.

peej
17 days ago

“temporarily stairs”–thanks Mitch!

Anonymous
16 days ago

Okay I get you’re fiscally conservative, I am too, but we have a reputation to maintain at our terminals and entry points to the City code from the airport. Glad our leaders don’t think escalators can function as stairs and are working on updating our entry points.

Alpina
18 days ago

Now it makes sense to keep the rest of the airport looking as a 3rd world airport so people people pay an extra 1k to travel in comfort

anon
18 days ago

sadly. MIA is a third world airport, while airports in actual third world countries like El Dorado International in Colombia (my favorite airport) rival even the nicest airports in America.

Anonymous
18 days ago

Is it your favorite airport because it’s the only airport outside the US you’ve been to? Serious question.

Anonymous
18 days ago

I love how posters here name drop all the far corners of the world they’ve visited. Trips probably funded by either Daddy or by revolving credit card debt. Like who cares.

Anonymous
18 days ago

I’m sure he was in Columbia for another reason, probably with a condom filled with something else white up his arse.

Anonymous
18 days ago

It’s NOT “Columbia. It’s Colombia!

Anonymous
18 days ago

Umm, a country is more than its airports. I’m sure you know that, I hope.

Bruno
17 days ago

No. It’s not.
MIA probably handles more cargo in a year than the entire country of Columbia exports in a year with all of their airports.
MIA has over 100 different flagged airlines…far more than any “3rd World” airport.

I fly in/out of MIA 2-4 times every month, it is great. There are better, but it is NOt 3rd World by any reasonable standard.

Anonymous
16 days ago

Blah blah blah… Airports are for cargo not passengers. Miami river should be a “working river” and not a leisure destination… these are all such antiquated perspectives of the City and most people completely disagree and think they should be modernized.

Anon
14 days ago

antiquated according to who? You?

anon
16 days ago

the majority of MIA’s cargo is traded with bogota in colombia, please get it right

Anonymous
17 days ago

I remember Trump’s 2016 campaign when he mentioned American airports where quite bad when comparing to the Asian airports.

Anonymous
18 days ago

Would be nice to restore the 1959 MiMo Central Terminal (especially the hotel), while upgrading to twenty-first century standards, rather than another Band-Aid “improvement” or complete rebuild for some awful Arquitectonica junk that won’t last a fraction as long.

???
18 days ago

You want vips to pay any type of $ just to pull up to that shxtty building

Anonymous but Famous
16 days ago

Good. I was afraid this groundbreaking beauty of more than regional importance was going to be trashed.

No road, No rail, No future
15 days ago

I have no problem with this if it’s privately funded and people are paying for the service. THe problem is the USA just blows. When the argument arises as to why the USA is so incredibly backwards when it comes to high speed trains compared to the rest of the 1st world, the crutch always is “America is a flying nation”. Ok, so if that’s so how come US aiports are STILL third world compared to airports in the rest of the 1st world. Heck even most aiports in the Middle East, South East Asia, and major Latin American cities put US airports to shame. But yeah, 1 trillion to the Pentagon…

No rationality
14 days ago

Most normal rational people don’t use train service as a nation’s only gauge for greatness.