We’ve just learned when Delta Air Lines’ next premium international lounge will open, and we won’t have to wait much longer.
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Delta One Lounge Los Angeles opens October 10, 2024
View from the Wing reports that the Delta One Lounge at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) will be opening on Thursday, October 10, 2024. This will be the second Delta One Lounge, as the first opened in June 2024, and is located in New York (JFK).
Beyond these two locations, there are also plans for a Delta One Lounge to open in Boston (BOS) in late 2024, and in Seattle (SEA) in early 2025. Delta is playing catch up here, and the airline is opening up these locations fast, given that there are much larger networks of American Flagship Lounges and United Polaris Lounges.
As a reminder, Delta One Lounges are open to Delta One passengers (the name of Delta’s premium business class), premium cabin passengers on select partner airlines (Air France, KLM, LATAM, and Virgin Atlantic), and Delta 360 members traveling in first or business class.
What we know about the Delta One Lounge Los Angeles
The Delta One Lounge LAX will be located in Terminal 3 (which is connected airside from all terminals). The lounge will be around 10,000 square feet, and will be directly accessible by elevator from the Delta One check-in area. That will create a seamless experience for those originating their travels in Los Angeles, so that’s cool. Presumably the lounge will feature elevated, restaurant-style dining, though we don’t know about any amenities beyond that.
Now, odds are that the Delta One Lounge LAX will pale in comparison to the Delta One Lounge JFK, as the latter is nearly 40,000 square feet, with seating for over 500 people. So the LAX location will be roughly one-quarter the size, but in fairness, Delta also has a much smaller pool of passengers eligible for access there.
With a fairly small lounge, I’m curious to see what the passenger experience will be like. I imagine a large percentage of guests will be those traveling on premium transcontinental flights in Delta One.
Delta’s long haul international network out of Los Angeles is fairly limited, with destinations including Paris (CDG), Sydney (SYD), and Tokyo (HND), on a year-round basis, plus Auckland (AKL), Brisbane BNE), and Tahiti (PPT), on a seasonal basis.
Bottom line
The Delta One Lounge LAX is expected to open on October 10, 2024, and it will be the second lounge in this network. I’m excited to learn the details of this lounge, and to see what amenities are like, given how much smaller it is than the JFK location.
While Delta is late to the game with its premium international lounges, at least the airline is moving at a fast pace, and should open four of these lounges within a year.
What do you make of the upcoming Delta One Lounge LAX?
Has Delta ever clarified if someone with same ticket First-then-DeltaOne tickets, would still be eligible?
For example, someone flying LAX-ATL-JNB, as there's no DeltaOne option between Los Angeles and Atlanta?
Yes, as long as you have a same day D1 or Skyteam business, you are eligible.
Between the DL One lounge, the DL Sky Club, the AF lounge, the VS Clubhouse, and the KE lounge, LAX has a ton of options for Skyteam fliers and would be fun to lounge hop.
Yes but the Skyteam partner flights depart out of Tom Bradley. And even though the terminals are connected airside, it’s still quite a walk. So more than likely most people would just stay in Tom Bradley and use the AF lounge.
That's not a bad walk. I often walk to between T4/5 and TBIT. AND While the 5 route is a bit annoying it really does not take much time. Only really gets fun when I want to use the AA Flagship Lounge for an Alaska domestic flight. But even that is not too bad.
Others: LAX-JFK
Ben: MEX-LAX-JFK-BOS-CUN for lounge reviews
Since this is 1/4 of the size, I fear crowding may actually be worse at the LAX one, even w/ the new AF lounge and VS Clubhouse coming.
At least at JFK, AF passengers had to use another terminal, but LAX is connected airside and I imagine a good number of AF passengers will use the D1 lounge as well.
Given the distance I would use the AF lounge as I believe most should.
The jfk one is pretty crowded. Comfortable and the food/bev options are great but can’t get any of the other amenities during 4+ hrs layovers.
Is the daily LAX-DCA 757 flight considered "premium?" I know it's marketed is as Delta One when I booked a couple of them, but I don't know whether or not I'll have access to this new lounge.
Yup
Still kinda bad for me.
Delta made history for multiple times, for being -
The first big 3 to give no absolutely Qualifying Miles flying co-founder of own alliance, no matter the cabin.
The first big 3 not to give all alliance partners’ long haul business passengers premium lounge.
The first big 3 to have an upgrade list for spacey economy seats.
The first big 3 not to give highest...
Still kinda bad for me.
Delta made history for multiple times, for being -
The first big 3 to give no absolutely Qualifying Miles flying co-founder of own alliance, no matter the cabin.
The first big 3 not to give all alliance partners’ long haul business passengers premium lounge.
The first big 3 to have an upgrade list for spacey economy seats.
The first big 3 not to give highest published status Group 1 boarding.
The first big 3 not to give club level credit card members unlimited club access.
The only question left is: why people still like them?
*absolutely no Qualifying Miles flying co-founder, no matter which cabin you fly in
Wait for Tim Dunn to answer this question about why do people still like them but I can tell you that it will be something like because they are the most premium airline in the world.
No matter what they do there will be plenty of people who will still fly with Delta. Delta can lay a fart bomb and bottle it for you and people like Tim will purchase it because it is premium air since DL dealt it.
Hehe!!
If you don't like Delta, don't fly them. No one is forcing you to. The Delta One lounges are nicer than Polaris and Flagship Lounges at the moment. Your regurgitated rant against Delta is just as bad as Tim Dunn.
Ah, you think I don’t like Delta? You think too much. I don’t dislike DL, but it was just to show how much Tim adores DL no matter what. And yeah of course D1 lounges are nicer at the moment as they have been playing catchup. They are smart enough to know to make the lounges better than AA and UA.
What regurgitated rant against DL? Definitely not. You are clearly mistaken. No regurgitation...
Ah, you think I don’t like Delta? You think too much. I don’t dislike DL, but it was just to show how much Tim adores DL no matter what. And yeah of course D1 lounges are nicer at the moment as they have been playing catchup. They are smart enough to know to make the lounges better than AA and UA.
What regurgitated rant against DL? Definitely not. You are clearly mistaken. No regurgitation necessary as I have not been ranting on Delta as you would believe. But your love for anything DL and ST is just as bad and annoying as Tim. Oh, actually not. You two are in the same boat when it comes to DL.
Interesting that there are still no plans for any at ATL, DTW or MSP.
There’s an awfully large upper level construction project at ATL’s D gates that might suggest otherwise. It wouldn’t be the most logical choice of location considering a fair bit of international departures go out of E & F but the Amex lounge took a giant space in E and the sheer size of the project in D tells me it’s not just another sky club. I’m betting each of their hubs with Delta One flights will eventually offer a Delta One lounge.
Let’s not forget about transcon to/from JFK, DC A and BOS
LATAM has Lima x2, SCL & GRU, Air France, KoreanAir and Virgin Atlantic are 2-3x daily & KLM of course. So if folks are willing to walk it could get quite crowded (but the massive SkyClub if it handles showers might alleviate some of that)
SAS is daily as well. Hope they count EB business pax as eligible to enter.
So regarding passenger eligibility, who will use the SEA one then? Their standard Sky club is already a fraction of LAX and from SEA Delta operates even fewer long haul flights, fewer transcon flights, and has fewer eligible partner flights. Is it just aspirational in the hopes that SEA will one day be a valuable hub for them?
Actually, I take this back. They have a larger long haul network out of SEA than I realized. A lot of that seems to be supplementing partner airlines but still
My understanding is that the SEA Delta One lounge will be more similar to the BOS one, where it's a connected area to the SkyClub.
If you read the details of the BOS one, it's a smaller 6300 sqft premium area (probably mostly dining). The new SEA SkyClub was reduced in size to allocate the new Delta One lounge from what I read.
You are correct that the Delta One footprint at SEA is much...
My understanding is that the SEA Delta One lounge will be more similar to the BOS one, where it's a connected area to the SkyClub.
If you read the details of the BOS one, it's a smaller 6300 sqft premium area (probably mostly dining). The new SEA SkyClub was reduced in size to allocate the new Delta One lounge from what I read.
You are correct that the Delta One footprint at SEA is much smaller since they do not run any premium transcons, and only about a dozen of longhaul flights a day would be eligible, which is about as many premium transcons there are out of LAX in a given day (albeit the cabin sizes are smaller).
Lots of options for anyone flying in SkyTeam business class! And the big SkyClub between T2 and T3 still ain’t too bad either if the crowds are not crazy.