The Platinum Card® from American Express (review) and The Business Platinum Card® from American Express (review) both participate in Amex’s Global Lounge Collection, which includes access to Amex Centurion Lounges, Delta Sky Clubs, Priority Pass Lounges, Escape Lounges, and more. (Enrollment is required for select benefits)
One of the lesser known lounge perks of the Amex Platinum Card involves access to Lufthansa Lounges. In this post, I’d like to go over all the details you need to know about how this works.
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What is the Amex Lufthansa Lounge access benefit?
American Express and Lufthansa have a partnership whereby those with the Amex Platinum and Amex Centurion (both business and personal versions) get access to select Lufthansa Lounges. Depending on the card you have or the class you’re traveling in, you may have access to the Lufthansa Business Lounge, Lufthansa Senator Lounge, or Lufthansa First Lounge.
What Lufthansa Lounges does Amex get you access to?
As it stands, those with the Amex Platinum or Amex Centurion Lounge can access Lufthansa Lounges at the following airports:
- Berlin (BER)
- Boston (BOS)
- Detroit (DTW)
- Dubai (DXB)
- Dusseldorf (DUS)
- Frankfurt (FRA)
- Hamburg (HAM)
- Hanover (HAJ)
- London (LHR)
- Milan (MXP)
- Munich (MUC)
- Newark (EWR)
- New York (JFK)
- Paris (CDG)
- Washington (IAD)
This list is subject to change. You can always check up-to-the-date participating lounge locations through the Amex Platinum lounge website.
When can you visit Lufthansa Lounges with an Amex?
Unlike some of Amex’s other lounge access perks, you only receive access to Lufthansa Lounges when flying select Lufthansa Group airlines (including Lufthansa, SWISS, and Austrian) same day. Note that flights on other Lufthansa Group subsidiaries, including Brussels, Discover, and Eurowings, don’t qualify. Furthermore, codeshare flights also don’t qualify, meaning a Lufthansa marketed flight on United wouldn’t get you access.
The lounge you have access to depends on the card you have and what class you’re traveling in:
- Those with the Amex Platinum Card can access Lufthansa Business Lounges when flying economy
- Those with the Amex Platinum Card can access Lufthansa Senator Lounges when flying business class
- Those with the Amex Centurion Card can access Lufthansa First Lounges, regardless of the class they’re traveling in; Lufthansa only has First Lounges in Frankfurt and Munich, and the First Class Terminal is excluded from this agreement
You can’t bring a complimentary guest into the lounge, though it’s said that select Lufthansa Lounges will allow cardmembers to bring in a guest for a fee, which varies by the lounge. So you’ll have to ask when you get there. Furthermore, both primary cardmembers and authorized users on Amex Platinum and Centurion Cards are eligible for access.
Separately from this direct agreement between American Express and Lufthansa, select Lufthansa Lounges can also be accessed with Priority Pass. The benefit there is that you can usually bring guests with you at no additional cost, and there’s no requirement to be flying a Lufthansa Group airline the same day.
Bottom line
American Express and Lufthansa have a partnership that often flies under the radar. With this, those with select Amex products can access Lufthansa Lounges in conjunction with an eligible Lufthansa Group boarding pass. The lounge you have access to depends on the card you have, plus the cabin you’re traveling in.
Have you ever taken advantage of the partnership between Amex and Lufthansa for lounge access?
Small typo: “Amex Platinum or Amex Centurion Lounge can access Lufthansa Lounges at the following airports”; “cards” instead of ”lounges”
Definitely flew on Eurowings from Dusseldorf to Rome in the last 6 months - on the lowest basic fare - and was able to get into the lounge with AmEx Platinum.
Both Eurowings and Discover definitely qualify! Not sure if this also applies to their Basic fares, but it definitely works with a Smart fare. I use the BER lounge all the time when flying EW. I guess they forgot to add them to the list when they expanded their trial to virtually all lounges (back then it was only the MUC satellite lounges which at least back then did not see any EW or 4Y services).
Interesting. Does this also apply to the Air Canada Centurion card? Or just the "regular" centurion card?
Connected thru FRA a few weeks ago, C class with the wife and two adult kids. Had a few hours to kill so went to LH F lounge. Showed my centurion card to The Dragon who, in a very typically German (read: blunt) way said she would let us in if we paid $120 per person. Suffice to say, the C lounge was perfectly adequate.
I’m based in Frankfurt and while LH lounges are nothing to get excited about, it’s nice to have.
I really like the Senator Lounge in FRA T1. The new AC Maple Leaf is gorgeous too but the Senator is quite spacious and has nice showers.
Hate the Lufthansa Business lounge tough. Disgusting
I've heard from people that amex centurion holders only got access to the FCL A at FRA. Don't know whether that's true or not though.
The only little downside is they dont offer car service from the F lounge in FRA to planes when parked at a remote stand. Given how frequently remote stands are used at FRA this is a dissappointment.
Would also be cool, if F lounge access applied at other lounges in the LH group like swiss lounges in ZRH
That’s not my experience. I’ve always been driven from the FRA F lounge to flights leaving from a remote stand.
LH Business and Senator lounges are nothing to get excited about. But access to the First lounge in FRA and MUC is interesting. I sometimes prefer to use the F lounge over the F terminal in FRA. The lounge is generally quieter and more peaceful than the F terminal.