CELEBRITIES really do live a gilded life – not only do they get free clothes, huge wage packets and invites to the best parties, now they’ve even found a way to make AIRPORTS an agreeable experience.
LAX has just launched a new terminal specifically for VIPs, so the likes of Jennifer Aniston and David Beckham don’t even have to mix with us mere mortals while checking in.
In the new ‘Private Suite’, the super-luxury terminal offers everything from massages to make-up artists – and eight staff dedicated to each check-in.
According to the creators of The Private Suite, it typically takes 2,200 footsteps from car seat to plane seat at LAX, but their guests will just take 70 footsteps.
Members also don’t have to wait in crowded lines because they perform check-in and private security screening in their own building.
After being checked in, the guests spend their pre-flight time in private suites, each with its own bathroom, its own food-service pantry, a two-person daybed, plus a runway view of aircraft landing and taking off.
When it’s time to board, they are then driven across the tarmac, Head-of-State style, directly to their aircraft.
A team of eight people is assigned to each member of The Private Suite, from greeting the guest at the door of their car to dropping them off at the plane.
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The service doesn’t come cheap though – for domestic flights, it costs $2,700 (£2,088) per group of up to three people and $3,000 (£2,321) for international flights.
Alternatively, frequent flyers might like to opt for the $7,500 (£5,802) annual membership fee, which then gets them discounts on the service fees every time they book.
A message on the Private Suite website reads: “Members of The Private Suite don’t wait in crowded lines, walk down long crowded concourses, or line up at ticket counters and boarding gates.
“They don’t deal with baggage. And they don’t deal with paparazzi.”
That last line will come as welcome news to the scores of celebrities who've had tussles with snappers in recent years.
One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson was the most recent star to get into a scrape with the paps in March, when travelling through LAX with his girlfriend Eleanor Calder.
Pals insisted at the time he had been trying to defend his girlfriend, who was also caught up in the scuffle, from a gang who refused to stop filming his fight with paparazzo Karl Larsen.
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