Chase Sapphire Lounges are out of Priority Pass: what changed at every Sapphire Lounge airport

For about four years, the best lounge at a handful of American airports was open to anyone with a Priority Pass card, once a year, free. That ended on August 15, 2026, when every Chase Sapphire Lounge by The Club left the Priority Pass and LoungeKey networks at the same moment. If you want into a Sapphire Lounge now and you do not hold a qualifying Chase card, you pay $100 for a day pass, and only if there is room.

What Chase actually announced#

Chase made two changes. The first was the exit. Before that date, a Priority Pass or LoungeKey member from any issuer got one complimentary Sapphire Lounge visit per calendar year, and paid $75 for each additional visit. Chase's stated reason for ending it was crowding.

The second was a sweetener for Chase's own cardholders. The entry window for connecting passengers grew from three hours before departure to five. Originating passengers are still held to three.

The Priority Pass Select membership bundled with the Sapphire Reserve is unchanged. Sapphire Reserve holders lost nothing on August 15.

Who gets in now#

Chase Sapphire Reserve, Sapphire Reserve for Business, J.P. Morgan Reserve, and the Ritz-Carlton card, which is no longer open to new applicants but still carries access for existing holders.

Each primary cardholder brings up to two guests free plus any children under two, with additional guests at $27, which remains the cheapest guest fee at any US bank lounge. Authorized users on the personal Reserve, at $195 a year, get the same lounge access as the primary and their own Priority Pass Select. Authorized users on the business card get nothing at the lounge door.

Non-cardholders: $100 a person, capacity permitting.

Airport by airport#

Chase and Priority Pass have said that 49 Priority Pass lounges and experiences remain across the nine affected airports.

Boston Logan. The Boston Sapphire Lounge sits in the Terminal B/C connector near gate B40, with two showers and a 4.6 from us. The Lounge in Terminal C, across from C19, rates 3.9. The Air France Lounge in Terminal E near E3 caps stays at three hours and leans toward its own passengers in the evening.

Dallas/Fort Worth. The DFW Sapphire Lounge at D25 opened in July 2026. Dallas has the best fallbacks of the nine. The Club DFW on the Terminal D mezzanine near D27 rates 4.3 and has two showers. Plaza Premium Lounge (E) near E31 rates 4.4 with a two-hour Priority Pass cap. One warning: the newer Plaza Premium Lounge in Terminal D, opposite D15, left Priority Pass on June 21, so do not walk there expecting entry.

Las Vegas. Sapphire LAS in Terminal 1 on Concourse C opened in December 2025 and rates 4.3. The Club LAS (D) near D33 rates 3.7. The Club LAS (E) in Terminal 3 rates 4.8.

LaGuardia. The Terminal B Sapphire Lounge rates 4.8, has two showers, and was the only full lounge Priority Pass opened at LaGuardia. Without it, Priority Pass at LGA is a Be Relax Spa visit, one per boarding pass, and for Amex Platinum holders specifically, a Minute Suites Express hour. If you hold a Venture X, the Capital One Landing in Terminal B is yours. If you hold an Amex, Citi or Bilt card, there is nothing at LaGuardia for you.

JFK. The Sapphire Lounge with Etihad in Terminal 4 rates 4.7 with four showers and was a genuine loss. Terminal 4's Priority Pass list is now short, because Wingtips closed in 2022 and HelloSky closed in May 2026. The Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse above gate A5 admits Priority Pass members from 5am to 1:30pm, before the Upper Class evening bank. Later in the day the choices are the Air India Maharaja Lounge near A5, rated 2.6, and an hour at Minute Suites near B39. Terminal 1 has the Primeclass Lounge at 4.8 and the Air France Lounge at 4.1 with showers, and Terminal 8 has Minute Suites. Our JFK Priority Pass guide walks through all of them.

Philadelphia. The Sapphire Lounge in the D/E connector rates 4.5 and was Philadelphia's only Priority Pass lounge. The remainder is Minute Suites in the A-East/A-B connector, limited to an hour, and an XpresSpa near B2.

Phoenix. Sapphire PHX in Terminal 4 near D11 rates 4.8. The Priority Pass fallback is the Escape Lounge in Terminal 3. Terminal 4 passengers have no Priority Pass lounge, because Terminals 3 and 4 are not connected airside.

San Diego. The Terminal 2 West Sapphire Lounge near gates 46 and 47 rates 4.6 with one shower. Priority Pass members use the Aspire Lounge, rated 4.2 with one shower and a three-hour cap, plus a Be Relax Spa near gate 26.

Washington Dulles. The Etihad Lounge in collaboration with Chase on Concourse A near A14 is a co-branded lounge, and it left Priority Pass with the rest. Dulles has the richest fallback list of the nine: Air France-KLM near A20, British Airways Galleries opposite B50, the Lufthansa Business Lounge at B49 and the Turkish Airlines Lounge near B43.

What is coming#

Chase has a Los Angeles Sapphire Lounge planned for late 2026 or early 2027 and a Miami location around 2028. Both will open Chase-only.

What I would do#

If you hold the Sapphire Reserve, nothing. Enjoy the shorter line.

If you hold Priority Pass through any other issuer, take LaGuardia and Philadelphia off your mental list of airports with a lounge, note that Phoenix only works from Terminal 3, and check the airport pages before you fly through the others.

If you are picking a card for lounge access and one of these nine airports is home, the Sapphire Reserve's $795 fee got easier to justify this summer, and our Sapphire Reserve page lists every airport it covers. Ratings here follow our methodology.