Central Florida Airport Approves Hybrid FBO/Hotel

The Melbourne (Florida) Airport Authority has approved the lease on a hybrid FBO/hotel, which is expected to begin construction by early 2021.

Central Florida's Melbourne International Airport will receive its first on-airport hotel and its third service provider in the same package in 2022, when the new fly-in Hyatt Place is slated to open. The facility is expected to largely cater to the corporate traffic generated by the airport's based aviation industry manufacturers. To that end, the hotel will feature eight executive suites on the uppermost floor, and its own ramp for handling aircraft.

By Curt Epstein • Business Aviation Services Editor

September 11, 2020

The Melbourne (Florida) Airport (MLB) Authority has approved the lease on a hybrid FBO/hotel, which is expected to begin construction by early 2021. According to Florida-based hospitality real estate developer and manager AD1 Global, the five-story Hyatt Place hotel will include an integrated full-service FBO on the ground floor, which will give the central Florida airport its third aircraft service provider when the facility opens in 2022.

The FBO, which has yet to be named, will provide its own line service, and operate its own refuelers which, along with the existing two service providers on the field, will draw from the airport’s 200,000-gallon fuel supply. Mark Busalacchi, MLB’s director of marketing and business development, told AIN that a group of T-hangars will be demolished to make room for the new FBO’s ramp, while an existing access road will be eliminated to provide the new building with secure direct airside access.

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