NetJets Filed to Build a $19.5 Million Private Terminal at Austin's Airport — Away From Everyone Else's FBO

NetJets has filed state paperwork to build its own $19.5 million private terminal near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport — a standalone, members-only facility, not a remodel of the FBO row every other private flyer already uses. According to ATX Things analysis of the filing, it's the first dedicated NetJets terminal in Texas, and it's landing while Austin's own commercial terminal is still fighting for gate space.

What NetJets actually filed

The registration hit the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation on September 23, under the name "Signature Aviation Terminal Project for Netjets," project #TABS2027001729. The filing — a public record ATX Things pulled directly, the same way we track every large Central Texas project — spells out an 8,000-square-foot terminal building, 106,000 square feet of airside ramp, and a parking lot, all at a Del Valle-area address on East State Highway 71 near the airport, at an estimated cost of $19.5 million. FlyingMag and trade outlets picked up the same filing this week, crediting the Austin Business Journal with the first report.

Signature Flight Support, the Orlando-based company that already runs one of Austin-Bergstrom's three general-aviation FBOs, is listed as the owner and builder. NetJets — the fractional-ownership and jet-card company that bills itself as the world's largest private jet operator by fleet size and flight hours — is the tenant. The design firm is HDg Architecture, also of Orlando.

Why NetJets wants its own building

NetJets already flies into Austin-Bergstrom through Signature's existing FBO at 4321 Emma Browning Avenue, on the South Terminal's general-aviation row alongside Atlantic Aviation and Million Air. That facility is well-regarded — it carries a 4.5-star rating from 93 Google reviews (as of today), and one reviewer, Alyssa Magnum, wrote that a staffer named Jamil "took the time to clean the ice off our windshield without being asked" during a winter visit.

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Everything feels smooth, organized, and easy. The facility is clean, comfortable, and well run, and the staff consistently makes private travel feel calm and stress free.

So the existing FBO isn't the problem. What NetJets is building instead is a members-only version of it — a private terminal its own fractional owners and jet-card customers use exclusively, without sharing a ramp or a lobby with charter flights or other operators' customers. It's part of a national buildout: NetJets has opened or broken ground on similar member-only facilities at Teterboro in New Jersey, Scottsdale in Arizona, Bozeman in Montana, and has one planned at Harry Reid International in Las Vegas. Austin and a $35 million, 80,000-square-foot hangar campus at Dallas Love Field — filed separately and possibly starting construction as soon as November — are the company's first two dedicated Texas terminals.

"We continue to help our Owners reach across the country with ease," Patrick Gallagher, NetJets' president of sales, marketing and service, said of the company's recent facility investments.

Meanwhile, on the commercial side of the same airport

Austin-Bergstrom had its third-busiest year on record in 2025, with roughly 21.67 million passengers, and October 2025 set an all-time monthly record of just over 2 million travelers — up nearly 9% from the year before, according to the city's own monthly traffic reports. The airport's answer has been a formally approved expansion exceeding $5 billion: 32 new gates split across a rebuilt Concourse B and a new Concourse M, a centralized TSA checkpoint, and more ticket-counter and baggage space. Some pieces are targeted for 2027; the full buildout runs into the early-to-mid 2030s. Mayor Kirk Watson has called the plan foundational to "how Austin will grow."

That growth hasn't been painless this year. On September 11, an FAA ground delay program tied to runway and taxiway construction pushed back more than 100 flights in a single day; a rough stretch in June produced 11 cancellations and 85 delays in one day alone. None of that touches NetJets' customers, who check in at a private FBO already and will soon have an even more exclusive one a short drive away.

The bigger picture: Austin's development pipeline

This filing lands a few weeks after ATX Things' own September Development Report tracked $793.1 million in new Central Texas construction registered in a single 30-day window (as of September 2, 2026) — a reminder that a private aviation terminal, however striking, is one line in a much larger ledger that has also included $63 million in Mueller permits and nine new apartment buildings breaking ground in Easton Park this month alone.

What locals should know

• Nothing is built yet. This is a state filing, not a ribbon-cutting — construction isn't slated to start until January 2027 at the earliest.
• It's not replacing anything you'd use. The new terminal is exclusively for NetJets' fractional owners and jet-card members, separate from the general-aviation FBOs (Signature, Atlantic Aviation, Million Air) that already serve the South Terminal.
• It's privately funded. No city bond money or airport authority funds are involved, per the filing.
• Austin is only NetJets' second Texas terminal, alongside a larger, separately filed project at Dallas Love Field.
• Track the filing yourself at Zabalist's permit and project search — the same public records ATX Things pulled this from.

FAQ

Is NetJets building a new public terminal at Austin-Bergstrom? No. The new facility is private and members-only, for NetJets' own fractional-ownership and jet-card customers. It won't change where commercial passengers check in or board.

Where exactly is the new terminal going? The state filing lists an address on East State Highway 71 in the 78617 zip code, on the Del Valle side of the airport — a separate site from the existing South Terminal FBO row.

When will it be built? The filing lists a construction start of January 26, 2027, and a completion date of June 22, 2028. As of this filing, nothing has broken ground.

Does this affect Austin-Bergstrom's public gate expansion? No — they're unrelated projects. The city's 32-gate, $5 billion-plus expansion is a separate, publicly backed plan for the main passenger terminal.

Is Austin unusual for getting a NetJets terminal? Not entirely — NetJets has built or is building similar member-only terminals in New Jersey, Arizona, Montana and Nevada. Austin and Dallas are its first two in Texas.