This week, Delta Air Lines announced big plans for expanding and improving its lounge portfolio in 2025.
But accessing those new and improved Sky Clubs — along with other clubs across its network — will soon require a bit more strategy for SkyMiles members.
Beginning on Feb. 1, the Atlanta-based carrier will begin deploying stricter access rules for its Sky Club portfolio.
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Specifically, members who get Sky Club access via an American Express credit card will be limited to a set number of annual visits.
These new limitations are the final piece of sweeping changes Delta first announced for its loyalty program well over a year ago — changes that, you may recall, sparked fervent backlash at the time.
While Delta loyalists have now had more than a year to contend with tougher Medallion qualification requirements unveiled in the fall of 2023, a big part of the lounge access crackdown will come when the calendar flips to February.
Delta Sky Club access limitations
Here are the Sky Club access changes that take effect on Feb. 1:
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Note that you can make multiple lounge stops within a 24-hour period without it counting as more than one visit.
So, for example, I could stop at my home Sky Club at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) before a morning flight, and then visit another in Atlanta during a layover — and that would count as just one visit.
My new Sky Club strategy
As a frequent flyer who gets Sky Club access via the Amex Platinum card, I’ll probably be a bit more strategic with how and when I visit Sky Clubs as these new rules go into effect.
With 10 visits over the 12-month calendar, I’ll likely avoid checking into the lounge for a quick cup of coffee, and instead save my allotment for long layovers or airport visits when I need a full meal or a quiet place to work.
At airports where there’s an Amex Centurion Lounge available, I’ll almost always opt for that outpost, since there is no limit on the number of visits cardmembers can make to those facilities.
We should note that Delta Reserve, Reserve Business and Amex Platinum cardmembers can earn unlimited Sky Club visits by spending at least $75,000 in purchases with their card in a calendar year.
Stemming lounge overcrowding
Delta’s limits on lounge visits is part of a larger, multiyear effort to crack down on overcrowding in its outposts — a trend that in recent years has often taken the form of packed clubs and long lines to enter.
Larger, more differentiated lounges
Along with tightening access rules, the airline has expanded or built new (often larger) lounges at a host of airports, like the new facility in the A gates of Terminal 4 at its John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) hub in New York.
The airline this week announced plans to open one of the biggest clubs in its Sky Club network at Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC) in 2025. It’s planning upgraded facilities in Atlanta and Philadelphia.
Delta executives also hope its growing business-class-only network of Delta One Lounges will help alleviate overcrowding by funneling its highest-cabin flyers to the higher-end outposts. The carrier opened three in 2024, and is planning to debut a fourth in May at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) — along with a second Sky Club at the Pacific Northwest hub.
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More are expected in the future.
“I would be surprised if you don’t see a Delta One-type lounge at every major international hub that we operate — or certainly the gateways,” Delta chief communications officer Tim Mapes told me in a recent interview.
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But have efforts to stem overcrowding been successful? Or does Delta envision a further crackdown in the future?
The carrier is striking an optimistic — if measured — tone.
“It’s gotten much better. In fact, if anything, I think you might see us make some adjustments that are a bit more favorable for some of our top customer segments. But we’ve still got lines sometimes,” Mapes said.
More grab-and-go options could be on horizon
Welcome or not to frequent Sky Club visitors, Mapes noted that Delta is also pondering whether it could benefit by adding more grab-and-go offerings at more airports — a tactic that’s historically been offered as a consolation for members when a lounge is overcrowded or closed for construction.
“If all you wanted was a cup of coffee in the morning, you don’t necessarily need a seat, how do we get you that cup of coffee?” Mapes posed. “So, I think even the concept and the … configuration of what we’re providing through Sky Club, and a membership-based program, could evolve.”
On its face, expanding grab-and-go options could conceivably offer Sky Club members some helpful perks — that is, if it merely takes the place of shelling out $6 for a bottle of water while running to catch a flight. That’s especially true as Sky Club members keep a closer watch on their tally of annual visits.
That said, if grab-and-go increasingly becomes a substitute for actual lounge access — and part of some additional future tightening of access rules — it’d likely be a far less welcome evolution for members.
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As part of a star-studded event Delta hosted last week at the Sphere in Las Vegas, airline executives talked extensively about broadening the airline, and its SkyMiles program, to be about more than the airport or flight.
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Asked about the long-term vision of Delta’s loyalty program, Mapes was frank:
“I don’t think it in any way needs to be limited to travel,” he said.
We’ve seen more and more airlines dictate this vision, from launching shopping portals that allow you to earn miles on retail purchases to airline-hosted hotel and home rental platforms — to say nothing of credit card spending now counting toward elite status with many carriers.
With respect to Sky Clubs, this vision begs the question: Could you hypothetically see full-blown Sky Clubs at, say, an NBA arena or baseball stadium? After all, the airline already offers VIP experiences at a handful of major stadiums and arenas (United Airlines does something similar).
“One hundred percent,” Mapes said.
Now, Delta has no such plans in the works currently, Mapes cautioned.
But, he added: “I don’t think that’s a huge jump at all when you think about the affinity for sports that our customers already have, and our interest in being where they are.”
We should point out, American Express, Delta’s lucrative partner, operates a Centurion Lounge experience at the U.S. Open in New York each year — and a Centurion restaurant in Manhattan. Chase similarly operates an outpost for its members at the annual late-summer tennis tournament.
$7.4 billion from Amex
Speaking of the lounges, despite Delta’s controversial crackdown on Sky Club access for its credit cardmembers in 2025, there are no signs of customers’ interest waning for its Amex cobranded card suite.
Delta made nearly $7.4 billion through its Amex partnership in 2024, the company announced last week on its year-end earnings report. That included nearly $2 billion in the final three months of the year.
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