Delta will be the anchor tenant for the new D terminal in Tampa, including a new Sky Club that is at least 18,000 square feet. Terminal design is at 30% completion, and is expected to be 60% done by May.
The Sky Club will have back-of-house spaces for kitchen and storage, as well as an optional direct connection to one gate. Delta will receive at least six preferential-use gates in close proximity to the Sky Club. They will relocate from existing facilities to the new terminal within 90 days of notification that the new spaces are ready.
Delta Sky Club Bar at LAX
In addition to the gates, Delta will lease approximately 27,000 square feet of support and operations space near the gates.
The club lounge lease is for 5 years, with options for three five-year renewals, for a total potential20 years. Delta has the option to finance the Sky Club’s internal buildout using funds provided by the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority up to $37.5 million at 5.3% and repayment over 60 months.
This is all part of Tampa International Airport’s Airside D concourse multi-phase expansion that will have 16 gates and is meant to accommodate both domestic and some international flights, supporting a projected 34 million annual passengers by 2037. The project is expected to complete in ealy 2027 and cost up to $850 million.
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Delta’s newer Sky Club at ORD is also configured to allow for boarding from the lounge. Besides future new routes, which is a given given how fast that area of Florida is growing, I imagine it will be used on Delta’s existing flight to Amsterdam and Virgin Atlantic’s flight to London-Heathrow.
Maybe it will shame American into upgrading Tampa’s Admiral Lounge. The place is dismal
How would this work without having all passengers board through the lounge? It’s not like Emirates where they have the jet bridge to the upper deck of the A380 coming from the lounge and the “normal” jet bridge coming from the terminal. Unless Delta plans to acquire an A380 and fly it to Tampa.
Further evidence that Delta continues to build new airport facilities outside of its core hubs – ATL, DTW, MSP and SLC – and will upgrade its product in the process.
Let’s see how the rest of terminal D is used but DL’s partners might also use the terminal which could further elevate DL’s position by jointly sharing common facilities – like DL’s airport lounges where appropriate with its closest partners which is the concept they are once again doing at ORD.
@Andrew: “How would this work without having all passengers board through the lounge?”
I’m not sure “Y” it would be difficult to envision a solution.
Meanwhile AA will have that dumpy ass lounge with the 1984 furniture, not enough outlets (because hey the traveler of 1984 carries a briefcase with papers), crowded to the gills.
Clearly, Florida is a competitive market, and Delta wants to impress there. These plans for TPA look nice.
Further south, Delta has done a really good job with the ‘new’ SkyClub at FLL T2 as well. In fact, they expanded it even further. So much better than the old one, which was a hole-in-the-wall.
The irony is that FLL’s terminals are not connected airside, and Air Canada uses T2, yet the only Star Alliance lounge is a smaller UnitedClub at T1, so especially during the winter months, there will be a 787 or an a330 with 80+ premium passengers that have no practical lounge access.
@Andrew they have this at plenty of airports, I’ve done it at IAD, door opens into the jetbridge and they scan boarding passes as you leave the lounge.
The AF club at ORD — a club which is no more — had a direct to gate door for boarding some AF/KL flights from ORD. So when DL did it at ORD, it was sort of picking up from what AF/KL had already done at ORD T5.
KL is the only SkyTeam airline that had long-haul service out of TPA when I was looking a few months back. Would be nice if TPA got another TATL flight on a SkyTeam airline, but which route would it be?
Would like to see Tampa become a hub to South America for Delta with the investment TPA is clearly making in their facilities.
@Bryan ATL is close enough, and they already do much of their S. America operations from there. You expect TPA to take on BOG, LIM, UIO, GRU, EZE, SCL–like, with what, a fleet of a321neos?
Now, if we’re ‘kickin’ the shit’ here, might I recommend airlines get in on those ‘deportation’ flights?
Reports suggest it costs $850,000/flight ($10,000/passenger… so ‘efficient’ …DOGE!), which is a cash cow for whoever wants to ‘get in’ on those charters. Ah, the glorious ‘free market’ facilitating the logistics of moving 20 million ‘illegals’–think of the prophets, sorry, I mean, profits!
Of course, that money probably goes to a crony, not a ‘merit-based’ business, and certainly not a ‘DEI’ airline, so Delta’s probably out. Darn. Silly ‘morals’ and ‘ethics’–How ’empathetic’ and ‘weak’ of them! Boo!
While I am vehemently opposed to all this personally, I recognize it’s happening anyway–you know, the ‘red team’ has all three branches of the government, no guardrails, a violent, bloodthirsty base, and the whole ‘promises made, promises kept’ thing.
Just spit-balling, but what if we’re the s—hole country, after all? Nah, probably not. Besides, they get to write the history, so it’s a ‘golden’ age! Gulf of America!
Gary,
The numbers have changed. The new terminal is expected to cost $1.5 billion and be ready in 2028.
@GUWonder Virgin Atlantic flies Tampa to Heathrow. There are also a few Delta and Virgin Atlantic flights out of Orlando.
@ Tim Dunn — Yeah, I’m sure TPA will be great after the entire Gulf of America/Tampa Bay Area is wiped by a Cat 5. Only a matter of time..Florida is a horrible place for investment dollars given global warming trends
I held out hope for United but no such luck. I’ll keep hoping for a return of a mini hub in Florida. FLL anyone?
Gene,
and yet the CA fire disasters will be more costly than any hurricane.
Humanity continues to build in places with high environmental risk but there are pretty sound building codes to sustain hurricanes and Florida is using them.
Unlike CA, Florida is affordable which is why it will continue to grow.
so, no, Gene, you don’t see it correctly – to no surprise.
DL will grow with the TPA Bay area while some continue to hope for someone else’s failure so that UA can grow where it strategically failed to position itself in one of the world’s largest travel market. No one will fail and UA will have to organically grow in Florida and will still be much smaller than it should be given its network size.
Yes we could use the boarding from the club for our and partner flights to Mexico City (Aeromexico) , London Heathrow (Virgin Atlantic), Canada (Westjet) and Amsterdam (Delta)
@Dan
On FLL, you’re kidding, right? United has a ‘presence’ at Terminal 1 in FLL, but let’s be real, that’s not going to be a hub. From there, UA offers their typical connections to it actual hubs (EWR, ORD, IAH, IAD, DEN, SFO) and I think CLE, which is odd, but that’s it. Oh, and their ‘partnership’ with Silver is… not. going. well.
FLL is actually quite diversified. T1 also SWA. T2 Delta. T3 AA and jetBlue. T4 Spirit (they call it their hub, psh). But no one has a monopoly there, like DL at ATL or AA at DFW. The ‘plans’ to renovate T3 would be nice (or to connect the terminals airside, or the build a monorail to the cruise port), whenever and if eve any of that eventually happens. Some things are just odd, though, like in April 2023 when the runways flooded for several days (not during hurricane season). Also, why can’t AA have an Admirals Club, seriously? At least the airport opened that Amex affiliate, Express. Oh, and there’s a Zona Fresca in T4, so if ‘you’re in the know,’ that’s a nice snack. But let’s get real: Nobody’s creating a ‘hub’ at FLL.
Thanks for bring this up. Needed to vent.