Private Aviation & FBO Transportation in Austin

Around Austin you've really got two private fields in play, and they couldn't drive more differently. Most traffic lands at Austin-Bergstrom (AUS). The three FBOs there sit almost door to door: Atlantic Aviation at 4309 Emma Browning Ave, Signature Flight Support at 4321, and Million Air at 4801, all on the same street inside the airport campus off SH 71. The other option is Austin Executive (KEDC), the dedicated jet field out in Pflugerville, where Henriksen Jet Center runs the show at 6012 Aviation Dr. Call it 14 miles from downtown. Same distance, totally different trip, since it's northeast of town instead of southeast.

The one thing every AUS regular watches: SH 71

SH 71 is it. One road in, one road out, and no real bypass to fall back on. Put a wreck on the eastbound approach and the whole thing stacks up for hours. A private terminal does nothing to save you from that. We've watched clients leave with a fat cushion and still get pinned to the seat. So when we plan a tail number, we build the timing around the road first and wheels-up second.

Construction you're driving through in 2026

Emma Browning Ave, the very street the AUS FBOs live on, has on-and-off lane closures running through December 2026. That's the midfield taxiway work on the old South Terminal site. The South Terminal itself shut for good at the end of March, dumping all that commercial traffic into the Barbara Jordan Terminal and thickening up the main drop-off. We steer around the worst of it. Coming from the north, the northeast, or anything bound for Austin Executive, we ride SH 130, the 85-mph east-side bypass, and stay off I-35 through downtown completely. That rebuild isn't ending anytime soon.

Here's how we run an FBO pickup. We're tracking your tail number, not eyeballing a printed itinerary, so the car is already staged at the ramp before you finish taxiing in. None of that public cell-phone-lot dance you get with commercial. We roll up to Atlantic, Signature, or Henriksen, your chauffeur's already out and waiting, bags get handled, and you're moving a couple minutes after stepping off.

Departures work in reverse, and they're just as tight. We start from the FBO's preferred arrival window and back the clock out from there, through the traffic. Say you're leaving downtown for AUS in the 4:30 to 7:00 grind, or coming off the southwest side through the Oak Hill Y. We'll put you on the SH 71 Express lane and free-flow you past the signalized approach. Headed to Austin Executive from the north side or out of Round Rock? SH 130, clean of the I-35 mess. Either way, you're not sitting in the back doing math on whether you'll make it.

Chauffeured the whole way, start to finish. Couple flying private with a few bags? The 2025 Cadillac Escalade is the easy pick: seats six, climate dialed in, good audio. Got a group, or you want to actually get some work done between wheels-down and the office? The Flagship Jetliner Sprinter takes up to ten, runs Starlink Wi-Fi, gives you real privacy, and leaves room to spread out. Water and ice are aboard either vehicle, no charge, and bring your own bottle if everyone's 21 and up.

And if the day doesn't stop at the airport, meetings, a venue with a nightmare of an entrance, just say so when you book. We'll move you onto hourly as-directed and keep the same car and the same chauffeur with you all day, running on your clock.