Delta opened its first dedicated Delta One business class lounge at New York JFK back in June. Their second one, in Los Angeles, opens October 10th.

Delta One Lounge JFK

I believe I was the first to confirm details of Delta’s business class lounge plans for LAX, three years ago. This project has been a long time in coming. It’s 10,000 square feet, and accessibly by elevator from business class check-in. That’s tiny compared to the JFK lounge which clocks in at 39,707 square feet and has seats for 515 passengers, including a 140 seat restaurant.

Delta will also open Boston in the fourth quarter in terminal E, and that’ll be just 6,300 square feet connected to the Sky Club there. That way passengers can use both, maybe eat and drink in the nice lounge and spread out in the regular one?

The Delta Sky Club at LAX is fantastic but gets quite busy. It has multiple buffets and an outdoor deck.

Delta Sky Club LAX Main Bar

The Delta One lounge will certainly have elevated dining, and with fewer long haul flights also fewer eligible guests. We’ll have to wait to see how crowded it gets, remembering that good lounge food brings out more passengers than you’d expect even after factoring that you know that good lounge food brings passengers earlier and to stay longer. What other amenities they’ll offer will be revealed in a media preview on October 7th.

We can expect similar access rules to other Delta One lounges, available to Delta’s own premium (“Delta One”) business class passengers on both departure and arrival, and first and business class passengers flying Air France, KLM, Korean Air, Virgin Atlantic and LATAM can use these lounges as well. Passengers with same-day connections onto eligible flights are welcome, and so are Delta 360 passengers flying domestic first class.