American Express has added a new feature to the ‘Find An Airport Lounge’ section of the American Express app. Users can now see how busy centurion lounges are, with one of the following displayed:
- Not busy
- A little busy
- Very busy
- Almost full
Almost full is really ‘full’ and you’ll most likely be put on a wait list when you arrive at lounge reception. I guess saying almost full on the app sounds better than having it displayed as full. Either way this is a nice feature and can save a long walk if a lounge is already at or nearing capacity.
In the last month I’ve seen “almost full” maybe 4-5 times and never been put on a waiting list.
next step is the composition of cardholder vs guests (kids)?
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Swear I’ve had this option for close to a year if not more. I want to say I first read about it on DoC.
The Centurion Lounge has been completely useless to me this year. Tried 4 times this year (3 x MIA and 1x SEA) and full every time, so I went to the Admiral’s Club that I’m also a member of. It really makes me question my Platinum card, very frustrating. This will at least save me the walk over I guess.
Flew 15 times this year with 6 times (CLT, SFO, DFW, DEN, LAS) going through an airport with Centurion lounge – made it 6/6 and no wait at all. I think it really depends on your flight time and try to avoid peak hours
Just arrive EARLY. I went to SFO on a Sunday this month. Arrived at 6:15am. By 6:50am workers were placing “seat blocked for social distancing” signs. By the time I exited at 7:25 there was a line of about 20 people at the door. I don’t know how many were waiting to get on a list or checking in.
Is there a way to see this if you don’t have your own card that grants Centurion Lounge access? I get in using an AU card on someone else’s account, so I don’t have online access for that card.
What do you mean? Is the AU card in your name? If so, you can setup an online account for it. (At least for the consumer version.)
So derp, for some reason I thought you couldn’t create a login for an AU card, just for your own cards. I assume this has to be separate from the login for my own cards and that I can’t just add it to my regular login?
…create online access for that card.
It is “your” card even if you’re an AU on someone else’s and you will be able to create an online login/account. Unless you’re in fact using someone else’s card…
As others have posted, this is not brand new. I have been able to get in immediately when it says “Almost Full.”
On top of that it usually says “almost full” for me and often it will be like ~25% of capacity if you were to just go by seating.
Please don’t turn this site into some TPG knockoff. We come here to escape that dogshite…
Uh, this feature has been around forever. Just because that hack TPG posts about it, doesn’t make it new.
This is news to me so I appreciate the post.