Priority Pass opens 30 of the 148 lounges at the 12 busiest US airports

Priority Pass opens 30 of the 148 lounges at the 12 busiest US airports. At Denver and Newark it opens none.

Lounge finders list what exists. What you need to know is which of those doors opens for the card in your wallet, in your terminal, at your hour.

Two airports, no door

Denver has 8 lounges and Newark 6. Priority Pass opens none of them at either airport.

At the airports where it does open a door, the door is often in one place. Atlanta has 13 lounges and Priority Pass opens 2, both in the International Terminal. O’Hare has 14, and it opens 2, both in Terminal 5. LAX has 17, and it opens 1, with an extra fee at the door.

Orlando is the best share, at 3 of 5. JFK has the most, at 8 of 19, all in Terminals 1 and 4. A lounge in another terminal can mean a second trip through security. At Boston, Terminal A isn’t connected to the others past the checkpoint.

Hours narrow it further

Some of the 30 come with a clock. At O’Hare, the Air France lounge in Terminal 5 doesn’t admit Priority Pass from noon to 5 PM. At Boston the Air France lounge admits it only from 8:00 to 13:30.

The card decides more than the membership

Amex Platinum reaches 60 of the 148, because it stacks several networks: its own lounges, Priority Pass, and Sky Clubs when you fly Delta. Chase Sapphire Reserve reaches 35 and Capital One Venture X reaches 34.

That count flatters every card with an airline condition. Part of the Platinum’s 60 is closed unless you’re on a Delta flight, so check the condition against the flight you’ve booked, and check it on the day.

How this was made

I read 161 airports’ lounges from airport, airline, card and lounge-network pages in November 2026, and restated each fact in plain words. Of those airports, 82 have no lounge at all. The rest hold 422 lounges, and Priority Pass opens 123 of them.

A lounge counts for a membership if any route in its access rules matches. A route that couldn’t be sourced is left out.

The counts here are measured, in the sense that a person read each page and counted. No figure on this page is modelled, and the only judgement is whether a page said what it seemed to say.

What this can’t tell you

Some pages refused to load, and some big airlines’ lounge pages were among them. Of the 148 lounges, 122 are confirmed on a page I could read. LAX is the thinnest, at 7 of 17. A missing route isn’t a “no”, so a card may open more than this says.

United Polaris lounges have no route here, because no readable page states who gets in.

Hours are as the lounge lists them, and they change. Guest rules, visit limits and fees sit outside this count.

Access terms change often, so check the lounge’s own page before you count on one. Airline, card and lounge names belong to their owners.

Report a wrong number. A corrected number keeps its old value struck through for 30 days.