Turkish Airlines Opens Lounge At Tokyo Narita Airport

Are you sure this is the former ANA space? It looks like one of the former Delta Sky Clubs. Delta had two lounges at Narita.

It's kind of crazy that three of the seven Turkish lounges outside Turkey are in the United States. And one of the remaining four is in Moscow, which is hardly a bastion of international travel these days.

@ FNT Delta Diamond -- I'm 99% sure. Are you referring to the lounge pictured in this review?
https://onemileatatime.com/delta-one-business-class-a330-900neo-review/

As you can see, the former Sky Club curves, while this lounge seems to have corners.

How many flights a day do they even have?! Wouldn't it make more (financial) sense to just funnel their passengers to one of the ANA lounges?

United and, to a lesser extent, Air Canada would've made more sense.

Would complement the iASS lounge airside if it is part of Priority Pass

I think Turkish Airlines does this to promote the country of Turkey since it is a government owned airline.

Turkey is a very insecure country that needs to soothe it's ego with self promotion.

LAX seems like a hole in their lounge network. Up to 3 flights per day and tons of unused lounge space in TBIT/MSC.

Before COVID, United announced the plan to open Polaris lounge in LHR and NRT but it seems they froze that plan. United still occupies not-in-use former United First lounge space in Narita (above United Club lounge) so it makes sense to renovate that space and Polaris lounge… fingers crossed.

I believe HKG was also in that list iirc, which is probably the least likely now.

NRT makes some sense imo with their return to 5th freedom flights. The ANA lounges are severely overcrowded

There's a *A lounge right in that terminal!

They can't really open lounges in Europe as they would be located in the 'wrong' part of the terminal for most *A pax. BRU (SN don't have a non-Schengen lounge) or MAN might work, but not much else.

But what about the Caucasuses and central Asia? Or North Africa? Baku has something like 5 flights a day on Turkish. No lounge. In Cairo, there's like 4 flights a day on Turkish.

@FNT Delta Diamond - Moscow is a super high yield destination these days precisely because the options are so limited. Half of all Russians travelling to the west must be on TK.

@Throwawayname - Nothing it stopping TK from opening a lounge in Schengen section of an airport, just like that lounge in the US which is in a terminal TK doesn't fly from 🙂

CAI is another *A hub, no real incentive to open their own facility there and have everyone else going to MS. Some other destinations in N. Africa, C. Asia and the Balkans have Primeclass lounges which belong to the same owner but can be used by TK's competitors without worrying about the branding.

You've got to remember that it's only the US airlines and Air Canada that operate anything like a substantial network of outstation lounges - virtually everyone else is confined to hubs and a handful of key destinations.

Air France and KLM have a pretty decent network of lounges. Emirates too.

It is the old ANA lounge. The old Delta Sky Club was by the 20 satellite not the 40 satellite where the new Turkish lounge is. Only ANA ever had a lounge there.

You are right that Emirates do make an effort in the outstation lounge department, but the AFKL list really is rather short - for example, they haven't got any lounges of their own in Spain, Italy, or the UK (well over 30 destinations between them) and the only one in South America (over a dozen long haul destinations) is in CAY. Premium passengers are typically directed to lounges operated by airport authorities or the likes of Swissport.

Do we have an update when Turkish Airlines Crystal Business Class is rolled out other than “2025” for the 777 fleet? Specifically which routes??

I saw a comment on Flyertalk that the former UA F lounge has plumbing issues that make any renovation prohibitively expensive, which is why they haven't done anything with the space.

Unfortunately no update so far. I suppose the new seat is still on the certification process.

Darn. I was in Narita T1 for several hours today. I checked out lounges on the *A finder, but don't recall seeing TK. It would have been nice to try it out since both UA and NH don't have the best food offerings.

Such a vast lounge when they only have one flight a day from NRT

Just made my way to the new Turkish lounge and it might be my favorite lounge star alliance lounge at Narita. Foods great (as expected). Drink selection is broad and its design modern and has a great style to it. Worth the longish walk.