Google’s executives could soon be enjoying their own private airport
space ahead of winging their way to various far-flung locations around
the world, according to a news release from the Mineta San Jose International Airport (via MercuryNews).
Signature Flight Support, in tandem with a company called Blue City
Holdings which represents Google’s fleet of personal aircraft, will
likely be awarded a 50-year lease on San Jose Airport’s West Side, in
order to build a 29-acre, $82 million facility to house Google’s
executive aircraft and those of other clients.
In the news release, the airport expresses its intent to recommend
that Signature be granted the lease, which will see it construct a
“full-service, world-class fixed base operation” on the site. The
physical facility itself should occupy over 270,000 square feet on the
29 acre plot, according to the proposal, and will include an executive
terminal, hangars for storing aircraft, ramp space capable of
accommodating large business jets and aircraft maintenance facilities.
In exchange, Signature and its partners will pay $2.6 million in annual
rent, a minimum of $400,00 in fuel fee revenues, minimum annual taxes of
$70- to 300,000, around 200 jobs during the construction phase, 36 jobs
directly on premises and around 370 total jobs created.
Google’s fleet of aircraft included eight private jets spread across Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt alone,
according to news revealed back in December 2011, owned and operated by
an independent company formed by the three executives apart from
Google. Google almost definitely has more aircraft than that overall at
this point, and establishing their own close-to-hand place from which to
operate, maintain and store those means of transportation likely just
makes more sense at this point that whatever other arrangements they
previously had in place.
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