Delta confirms business-class lounge coming to Atlanta and much more
Fresh off the heels of opening its eighth Sky Club in Atlanta, Delta Air Lines has even more news coming for its hometown airport.
The airline will open a signature Delta One Lounge at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) in the coming years.
"We are working on the Delta One Lounge in Atlanta," Claude Roussel, Delta's vice president of Delta Sky Clubs and lounge experience, said in an exclusive interview with TPG.
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Roussel didn't share much, but he did confirm that the new lounge will open in either Concourse E or F, where 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 said.
The lounge chief wouldn't give more details about what to expect in the Atlanta Delta One Lounge (after all, I saw the airline's media relations team give him a stern look during our conversation), but recent openings at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) should give flyers a general sense of what's to come.
Delta One lounges feature elevated spaces and amenities compared to traditional membership-based Sky Clubs. They're reserved for the airline's long-haul business-class flyers, and they offer a space worthy of spending some time before your $5,000 (or more!) flight.
The outpost at JFK is the largest (and nicest) so far. It features a full-service restaurant, a year-round terrace, a spa, luxurious shower suites and shoeshines, among other amenities.
But given ATL's status as the world's busiest airport and Delta's biggest hub, it would be reasonable to assume that the airline will pull out all the stops to make this space one of the nicest yet.
Of course, we'll need to wait for more details, but it's an exciting development for this fledging network that just opened last summer in New York.
Delta has since opened outposts in LAX and BOS, and it plans to officially take the wraps off another new outpost at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) in June, Roussel confirmed. (The Delta One Lounge in Seattle will open in tandem with another new Sky Club in the airport.)
Once Delta opens business-class-only lounges at ATL and SEA, it'll be left with just four hubs that don't (yet) have similar 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 recently confirmed that the airline will build a Delta One Lounge at SLC, and Roussel confirmed the prevalent thinking that there's no reason to open one in LGA since the airline doesn't operate long-haul flights from there.
That said, Roussel did hint that Delta One lounges might be coming to DTW and MSP in the future.
"We still have a ways to go to cover our other hubs," he told TPG about opening more business-class-only outposts.
While the conversation focused on Delta One lounges, Roussel also shared that several of ATL's existing Sky Clubs will receive light refreshes in the coming months. This includes "beautifying" both of the airline's Sky Clubs in Concourse A, building out new staircase access to the Sky Club in Concourse T and adding more seating and a relocated reception area to the club in Concourse C.
Elsewhere, Delta is working on other Sky Club expansions and enhancements, including a massive renovation project at Denver International Airport (DEN) that will bring the club to over 20,000 square feet. The first phase of the DEN expansion is expected to open in the first half of 2026.
Other upcoming refreshes include an expansion at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) and a second Sky Club opening in SLC's Concourse B.
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