Looks like TMZ has a huge problem on their way. The newly completed $229 million five-year refurbishment of Terminal 5 at Los Angeles Airport will not only give clients a five-star experience travel experience, but a sneaky paparazzi proof entry and exit as well - Page Six has the details on the anti-paparazzi innovation.
"You avoid the entire arrivals process," Ranjan Goswami, VP of Delta, tells The Hollywood Reporter. "You won't see TMZ." Sorry, guys.
Here's how it will go down: For $350 with a first-class ticket, celebrities coming in LA can avail of the VIP Select service. This service will provide a luxury car for tarmac pick-up which will then bring them to a secret underground location somewhere in the city where their own personal driver should be waiting.
"If they're going off the tarmac, there's no way around it," paparazzi said.
For outbound flights, there is a premium security line after celebs check their bags in. A handler assigned to fend off the cameras' prying lenses will be around and escort them to the renovated Sky Club for a relaxing experience while waiting for their plane.
The new pre-security lounge "for our Delta ONE customers and our 360 unpublished tier customers - our highest revenue-generating customers - and is a facility that will brisk them through the experience, from the curb right to security," Jeff Robertson, VP -- Delta Sky Club, Product Development & Marketing Communication, said during a reception in the lounge, "It's about extending the onboard product to the ground."
Aside from the paparazzi-proof feature, the new terminal has also upgraded on their food and beverage concepts, new jet bridges, an expanded ticketing lobby, four additional security screening checkpoints, new baggage carousels and international baggage recheck facilities, usatoday.com reports.
"We're fast on our way to becoming the airline of choice in Los Angeles by understanding what moves LA - its most prominent industries, its most desired destinations, and its discerning customers' required amenities for travel," Delta President Ed Bastian said in a statement.
