Delta Air Strains is limiting entry to its sought-after airport lounges, placing new restrictions in place this month for vacationers who use a bank card membership to get in.

The brand new guidelines, which went into impact over the weekend on Feb. 1, will now restrict the variety of instances vacationers can enter a lounge, relying on the kind of bank card they’ve. The adjustments are an extension of the provider’s loyalty program overhaul and an effort to handle crowding at Sky Membership lounges.

Going ahead, vacationers who maintain a Delta SkyMiles Reserve American Categorical card or a Delta SkyMiles Reserve Enterprise American Categorical card will now be capable to go to a lounge as much as 15 instances every year, whereas vacationers who maintain an American Categorical Platinum card or an American Categorical Enterprise Platinum card will now be capable to entry a lounge as much as 10 instances every year. Platinum card members touring on a primary economic system ticket haven’t been allowed to entry Sky Membership lounges since 2024. 

Every of those card holders can earn limitless visits in the event that they spend at the very least $75,000 in eligible purchases. If these vacationers burn up all of their allotted lounge visits, they could buy entry for $50 per individual, per go to.

Vacationers who’ve a layover, nevertheless, will be capable to entry a number of lounges in a 24-hour interval, which can solely depend towards one official “go to,” in accordance with Delta. As well as, the airline mentioned vacationers will be capable to entry a number of Sky Golf equipment as a single “go to” if they’re touring on a same-day roundtrip itinerary so long as the entry on their return flight is inside 24 hours of their preliminary entry. 

Vacationers who maintain a number of eligible playing cards could make the most of every card’s particular person go to allotment. 

The adjustments come as Delta has targeted on opening new and bigger lounges, together with expanding its Sky Club at New York’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA), opening its first-ever Sky Club at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport (CLT), and expanding its premium Delta One lounges at airports throughout the nation.