Ferrovial Vertiports Appoints Kirk Hotelling as senior real estate and development VP

Fer­rovial Ver­ti­ports has appoint­ed Kirk Hotelling as senior vice pres­i­dent of real estate and devel­op­ment where he will lead glob­al site selec­tion, nego­ti­a­tions and con­struc­tion for the devel­op­ment of the company’s planned ver­ti­port net­works.

Report­ing to CEO Kevin Cox, Hotelling will be based at Fer­rovial Ver­ti­ports head­quar­ters in Irv­ing, Texas. He has decades of expe­ri­ence in com­mer­cial and pri­vate avi­a­tion, advanced air mobil­i­ty, infra­struc­ture, real estate and pub­lic sec­tors.

He brings near­ly 25 years of com­mer­cial avi­a­tion expe­ri­ence, most recent­ly as vice pres­i­dent of cor­po­rate real estate for Amer­i­can Air­lines, where he over­saw rela­tion­ships with more than 340 domes­tic and inter­na­tion­al air­ports, includ­ing hubs at Dal­las-Fort Worth, Char­lotte, Mia­mi and Phoenix inter­na­tion­al air­ports.

Dur­ing his tenure, he also led the devel­op­ment of American’s 300-acre head­quar­ters cam­pus in Fort Worth, Texas. Before join­ing US Air­ways, Hotelling served as an offi­cer in the US Army and grad­u­at­ed from the US Mil­i­tary Acad­e­my at West Point.

Cox said: “Kirk’s broad expe­ri­ence in large-scale real estate and air­port site selec­tion, nego­ti­a­tions and con­struc­tion for one of the world’s largest air­lines adds impor­tant capa­bil­i­ties to our tal­ent­ed and diverse team.

“As we trans­form the way peo­ple move with­in, through and between cities, we are proud to play a key role in mak­ing urban mobil­i­ty eas­i­er, faster and more sus­tain­able for pas­sen­gers and the com­mu­ni­ties where they live and work.”

In col­lab­o­ra­tion with lead­ing advanced mobil­i­ty man­u­fac­tur­ers, air ser­vice oper­a­tors, air­ports and cities, Fer­rovial is devel­op­ing a series of ‘agnos­tic’ ver­ti­ports net­works across the US and Europe that will sup­port eVTOLs, backed by 70 years of trans­porta­tion infra­struc­ture expe­ri­ence.

“Hav­ing spent much of my career in tra­di­tion­al avi­a­tion, it is excit­ing to join a com­pa­ny and emerg­ing indus­try mak­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of mobil­i­ty ser­vices pos­si­ble for con­gest­ed com­mu­ni­ties glob­al­ly,” Hotelling said.

Ear­li­er this month, Fer­rovial Ver­ti­ports appoint­ed Kevin Costel­lo as Senior Vice Pres­i­dent of busi­ness devel­op­ment for the North­east region of the Unit­ed States, report­ing direct­ly to Kevin Cox.

Fer­rovial Ver­ti­ports appoints Kevin Costel­lo as North­east US busi­ness devel­op­ment SVP