Istanbul Airport Finally Gets Priority Pass Lounge

Published: October 17, 2019

The new Istanbul Airport opened earlier this year, and it represents quite a change over the old Istanbul Ataturk Airport. The airport is beautiful, but also absolutely massive and poorly designed, in my opinion.

New Istanbul Airport

Anyway, for many travelers one major point of frustration has been that the new airport didn’t have a Priority Pass lounge. Turkish Airlines has a few lounges, and those don’t belong to Priority Pass. Then there’s also the IGA Lounge, which is the airport’s contract lounge. For whatever reason, this lounge hasn’t belonged to Priority Pass.

Turkish Airlines Lounge Istanbul

Well, the good news is that this has finally changed — the IGA Lounge at Istanbul Airport now belongs to Priority Pass.

The lounge is open 24/7, and is located airside after passport control and to the left. Priority Pass members can stay for a maximum of three hours, and the lounge allows guesting privileges.

I’ve heard pretty good things about this lounge, so this is a very nice addition for Priority Pass. Istanbul Airport is a global hub, so it has been frustrating that up until recently there hasn’t been any option for Priority Pass members.

Does anyone plan on using the IGA Lounge with Priority Pass?

(Tip of the hat to Mohammed)

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Jaka Guest

January 10, 2020, 3:45 am

Hi, So you are able to visit this lounge with Diners Card as well? On the website of Diners - it shows map of the older airport. https://www.dinersclub.com/clubmembers/airport-lounges/iga-lounge Thanks.

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Umar Javaid Guest

November 23, 2019, 10:31 am

Rav, Appreciate the confirmation. I plan on stopping here for sure now and great to hear it was one of the best experience.

Rav Shagal Guest

November 23, 2019, 4:52 am

Visited this lounge yesterday. Visited about 30 other Priority Pass lounges in the last 12 month and based on my experience this is the most impressive and by far the best one. Yes, it does take ages to walk there, but that's not the lounge's fault. Impressive design, plenty of space, even managed to get a "private sleeping cubicle" and nap for two hours. Breakfast food was what I'd expect in a 4 * hotel. Even managed to use the board room / office room, before I had to leave. For some reason the info about this lounge is still not available on the PP website.

November 22, 2019, 4:47 pm

I dont believe this lounge is open after calling Priority pass today. The Priority pass rep told me this lounge access is no longer available. I will be there on Dec 5, can someone confirm this?

John Quest Guest

October 29, 2019, 5:01 pm

I have visited the lounge couple weeks ago. You need to walk ridiculously long in order to get anywhere in this gigantic mall like airport. A lot is missing, public transport is one. How can you plan an airport 40km away from city center and missed to connect it with a train or subway. We organized a ride using istanbulrides.com. The previous airport was way much more better than this one, my guess Turkey has a lot of funds to spend it like this!!

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