- Teterboro Airport is New York City's private jet airport, where celebrities slip into the city unnoticed and where Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges on July 6.
- It's only about 12 miles from Manhattan, making it the closest private jet airport to the city.
- Teterboro has five fixed-base operators (FBOs) responsible for aircraft services including passenger handling, aircraft fueling, parking, maintenance, charters, rentals, and more.
- The airport's FBOs, like the award-winning Meridian Teterboro, offer some swanky amenities including lounges, a gym, a private movie theater, and hotel and limousine concierge services.
- Despite those offerings, a visit to the airport showed me that the true luxury of flying through Teterboro lies not in its amenities, but in the time it allows travelers to save.
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Just 12 miles from New York City, Teterboro Airport in New Jersey is the city's primary private jet airport.
Teterboro is a general aviation airport, which means its main purpose is to remove smaller, slower aircraft - i.e. private jets - from the regional air traffic and reduce congestion at the commercial airports such as Newark Liberty International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport.
Celebrities like Miley Cyrus, Usher, and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been spotted at Teterboro, and late financier Jeffrey Epstein, who recently died in jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, was arrested at the New Jersey airport in July.
I recently spent a few hours at the airport and got a tour of some of its facilities - here's what it was like.