Fresh off the heels of opening its eighth Sky Club in Atlanta, Delta Air Lines has even more information coming for its hometown airport.
The airline will open a signature Delta One Lounge at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) within the coming years.
“We are working on the Delta One Lounge in Atlanta,” Claude Roussel, Delta’s vice chairman of Delta Sky Clubs and lounge expertise, stated in an unique interview with TPG.
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Roussel did not share much, however he did affirm that the brand new lounge will open in both Concourse E or F, the place most of Delta’s long-haul flights depart.
“There are a couple of areas that we have under review now. I’m not going to tell you now because it might change, but it will be a stand-alone Delta One Lounge,” Roussel stated.
The lounge chief would not give more particulars about what to anticipate within the Atlanta Delta One Lounge (in any case, I noticed the airline’s media relations crew give him a stern look throughout our dialog), however current openings at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) ought to give flyers a basic sense of what is to come.
Delta One lounges characteristic elevated areas and facilities in contrast to conventional membership-based Sky Clubs. They’re reserved for the airline’s long-haul business-class flyers, and they provide an area worthy of spending a while earlier than your $5,000 (or more!) flight.
The outpost at JFK is the biggest (and nicest) thus far. It includes a full-service restaurant, a year-round terrace, a spa, luxurious bathe suites and shoeshines, amongst different facilities.
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But given ATL’s standing because the world’s busiest airport and Delta’s greatest hub, it might be affordable to assume that the airline will pull out all of the stops to make this area one of many nicest but.
Of course, we’ll want to look forward to more particulars, nevertheless it’s an thrilling growth for this fledging community that simply opened final summer time in New York.
Delta has since opened outposts in LAX and BOS, and it plans to formally take the wraps off one other new outpost at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) in June, Roussel confirmed. (The Delta One Lounge in Seattle will open in tandem with one other new Sky Club within the airport.)
Once Delta opens business-class-only lounges at ATL and SEA, it’s going to be left with simply 4 hubs that do not (but) have comparable outposts: Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW), Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP), New York City’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA) and Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC).
Delta CEO Ed Bastian just lately confirmed that the airline will construct a Delta One Lounge at SLC, and Roussel confirmed the prevalent considering that there is not any motive to open one in LGA for the reason that airline does not function long-haul flights from there.
That stated, Roussel did trace that Delta One lounges may be coming to DTW and MSP sooner or later.
“We still have a ways to go to cover our other hubs,” he advised TPG about opening more business-class-only outposts.
While the dialog centered on Delta One lounges, Roussel additionally shared that a number of of ATL’s present Sky Clubs will obtain mild refreshes within the coming months. This contains “beautifying” each of the airline’s Sky Clubs in Concourse A, constructing out new staircase entry to the Sky Club in Concourse T and including more seating and a relocated reception space to the membership in Concourse C.
Elsewhere, Delta is engaged on different Sky Club expansions and enhancements, together with an enormous renovation undertaking at Denver International Airport (DEN) that can deliver the membership to over 20,000 sq. ft. The first section of the DEN enlargement is anticipated to open within the first half of 2026.
Other upcoming refreshes embrace an enlargement at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) and a second Sky Club opening in SLC’s Concourse B.
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