LAX opens secret luxury Terminal 10 with private suites, massages, and $1,250 annual membership
Key Points
- PS launches Terminal 10 at LAX, a members-only facility charging $1,250 annually to bypass security lines and airport congestion before commercial flights.
- The membership eliminates pre-flight friction like security waits and terminal crowding without changing the actual flight experience, positioning itself as cheaper alternative to private aviation.
- Members access private suites with premium amenities including massages, manicures, and haircuts, but operational details like baggage cutoff policies remain unspecified.
Summary
LAX Opens Members-Only Terminal 10 With Private Suites and Massages
PS, a members-only private terminal operator, has launched Terminal 10 at LAX with a $1,250 annual baseline membership fee. The facility operates independently from the airport's standard terminals one through nine and is located off the 105 freeway next to cargo holds and a gate gourmet facility.
Members bypass standard security checks—a guard verifies their name on a list—and have their bags valet-handled before entering private suites. The amenities include velvet furniture, free iPhone chargers, L'Abo soaps in private bathrooms, chocolate-covered almonds, gummy bears, sparkling waters, and canned matcha drinks. Members can book manicures, massages, haircuts, and NormaTec Elite compression boots while waiting for flights.
The membership solves a different problem than it claims. Members still fly on the same delayed, crowded, uncomfortable commercial aircraft with the same poor food and illness exposure as other passengers. What Terminal 10 eliminates is the pre-flight misery: no security lines, no terminal congestion, no rideshare wait times, and no parking lot shuffles. That experience compression costs roughly $1,250 annually, or less than 10 percent of annual business-class airfare for someone flying several times a month between LAX and another city.
The business model sits between commercial air travel and private charter, which costs roughly 10 times more. For frequent LAX fliers, the membership represents a marginal 5 percent spend increase that can improve the airport experience by roughly 50 percent—enough to make commercial travel tolerable for executives who otherwise cannot justify private aviation costs.
The segment does not specify capacity limits, peak-hour availability, late-arrival policies, or baggage cut-off timing, though one host expressed uncertainty about whether members can check bags later than standard commercial travelers, a meaningful operational detail for the membership's actual value proposition.
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