Flexjet opened a USD 34 million private terminal at Farnborough Airport on 10 September 2026. The 2,098-square-metre building is the company's first dedicated passenger facility in Europe. It sits in a new ramp-side structure, apart from the airport's main terminal.

Corporate Jet Investor and Flexjet's own release both put the outlay at USD 34 million. Flexjet staff host the building for the company's owners and guests. Farnborough Airport provides the dedicated security screening and immigration. Work on the site began about two years earlier. Flexjet chairman Kenn Ricci called it the firm's most ambitious infrastructure completion so far outside its North American headquarters.

Inside the building

A full-size copy of a Flexjet Gulfstream G700 cabin sits in the hall, fitted with an LXi Cabin Collection interior. The Owners Bar and Lounge looks onto the airfield through floor-to-ceiling glass. Private meeting rooms sit off that space. A sculpture by David Spriggs, titled Aero, stands in the lobby. Upper floors hold a tactical control centre and Flexjet's European operations headquarters. An expanded Red Label Academy for cabin crew training is on the same levels. Flexjet says 138 solar panels should generate about 37,848 kWh a year. A siphonic drainage system collects rainwater for reuse.

Beside the passenger building, Flexjet has opened a 3,530-square-metre MRO hangar on the same Farnborough site. The company says the hangar supports its global fleet and sits inside an in-house maintenance network of more than 1,500 people across 15 destinations. Michael Silvestro, Flexjet's chief executive, spoke to Corporate Jet Investor at the opening. "It doesn't do you any good to have an airplane if you can't keep it flying," he said.

Why Farnborough matters

Farnborough is already one of Europe's busiest business aviation gateways for London traffic. Flexjet links the new terminal to its Teterboro facility serving New York, so branded gateways now sit at both ends of that transatlantic finance corridor. The company also points to nine private terminals open or in development in the United States. Operations, sales and maintenance run across more than 25 locations worldwide. Flexjet states its fleet at more than 350 private jets and helicopters.

Capital has been moving around the same firm. In July 2025 Flexjet announced a USD 800 million investment led by L. Catterton, an LVMH affiliate. In July 2026 it became the official private aviation supplier to Formula 1. Those deals do not change the local fact. A large fractional and charter operator has put cash into European ground infrastructure and in-house MRO at the same airport.

Fleet managers and finance desks will watch the ground path and the dispatch record more than the lounge. Branded terminals reduce reliance on shared FBO lounges. On-site MRO shortens the distance between a technical snag and a return to service. Operators in South East England will notice that Flexjet chose to own the passenger path rather than rent space in a multi-tenant hall.

Goodall Aviation reads the Farnborough opening as more evidence that large fractional groups are buying infrastructure to hold utilisation. We source ACMI and wet lease cover when European programmes need temporary lift, and we arrange placements where operators want capacity without matching Flexjet's owned-terminal model. The contact page is the place to start.

Sources: flexjet.com, corporatejetinvestor.com