The cheapest private terminals

The floor for a real private terminal is far lower than most people assume: under £100 a guest at London City, and around $100 at Signature's Caribbean suites, for the same essentials the famous ones sell. Private formalities and a car to the aircraft.

Price is the first thing everyone asks, and the headline numbers (£4,060.21 at Heathrow, $4,950 at PS) set the expectation high. They shouldn't. Plenty of genuine private terminals, the kind with their own passport control and a drive across the apron, start an order of magnitude cheaper. Ranked low to high, every figure sourced on its terminal page.

Cheaper isn't lesser: each of these clears the same bar, a private entrance, private formalities and a car to the aircraft. What you pay more for elsewhere is the suite, the chef and the city.

Every price and access rule is sourced and dated on its own terminal page. We cite or leave blank; we never guess.