Chase Sapphire Lounges Leave Priority Pass on August 15, 2026

Pull up any Chase Sapphire Lounge on the Priority Pass site right now and you will find the same sentence sitting above the opening hours: effective 15 August 2026, this lounge will no longer be part of the network.^[1] If your Priority Pass came from anything other than a Chase card, that is the end of your access.

It is a short notice for a change that has been coming for a while. Chase spent the past few years building lounges that Priority Pass members could walk into, and the arrangement was always a slightly odd fit: a bank invests heavily in a flagship space, then hands a share of the seats to members who hold a competitor's card. That tension has now resolved in the direction most people expected.

What the notice actually says

The wording is identical across locations, and it is blunt. Each Chase Sapphire Lounge by The Club listing on Priority Pass now carries the line about leaving the network on 15 August 2026, followed by an instruction to check the app or website for other options at that airport. The same notice appears on the Boston Logan listing^[1], the JFK Terminal 4 listing that operates jointly with Etihad Airways^[2], the LaGuardia Terminal B listing^[3], Dallas Fort Worth^[4], Phoenix^[5], San Diego^[6], and Las Vegas^[7].

Two specific things go away. Priority Pass members had one complimentary visit per calendar year across the whole Chase Sapphire Lounge collection, and after that entitlement was spent, a preferential walk-in rate of 75 US dollars per person per visit.^[8] Neither survives the cutoff. The listings do not offer a replacement rate, they simply redirect members to other lounges at the airport, which means that for non-Chase Priority Pass holders these rooms stop existing as an option.

Who this does not touch

If the Sapphire Reserve is in your wallet, nothing about your day changes. Chase lists complimentary lounge access for Chase Sapphire Reserve, Chase Sapphire Reserve for Business, J.P. Morgan Reserve, and Ritz-Carlton Credit Card primary cardmembers and authorized users, with up to two guests at no charge and a fee for each additional guest.^[10] Those cardholders also keep their separate Priority Pass Select membership covering more than 1,300 lounges worldwide, which is a different benefit that runs alongside the Sapphire network rather than through it.^[11]

That distinction trips people up constantly, so it is worth stating plainly. A Sapphire Reserve cardholder has never needed Priority Pass to enter a Sapphire Lounge. The card opens the door directly. Priority Pass was the side entrance for everyone else, and the side entrance is being bricked up. Our full breakdown of what the card includes in 2026 lives in the Chase Sapphire Reserve lounge access guide.

The entry rules themselves are unchanged. The lounge listings show a three-hour window before a departing flight and a longer allowance of five hours when you are connecting, with a maximum stay of three hours once inside.^[1] Chase's own page describes presenting an eligible departing boarding pass within three hours of scheduled departure.^[10]

Where it hurts, airport by airport

The practical damage varies enormously by hub, because it depends on whether the Sapphire Lounge was your only Priority Pass option or one of several. Here is how the affected airports look in our own lounge database.

New York LaGuardia takes the hardest hit. The Sapphire Lounge in Terminal B was the Priority Pass option at LGA, and what remains is card-specific: the Centurion Lounge in Terminal B for Amex Platinum holders and the Delta Sky Club in Terminal C for the right ticket or membership. Our LaGuardia lounge guide maps the terminal-by-terminal picture, and the short version is that a standalone Priority Pass membership is about to be worth very little there.

Boston Logan keeps the Air France Lounge in Terminal E on Priority Pass, which is a genuinely pleasant room but sits in the international terminal, so it is only useful if your itinerary takes you through BOS Terminal E rather than the domestic piers.

New York JFK is the least affected of the group. JFK still gives Priority Pass members the Air France KLM Lounge and the Korean Air business class lounge in Terminal 1, plus the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse in Terminal 4. Terminal-by-terminal detail is in the JFK lounge guide.

Dallas Fort Worth retains two options, The Club at DFW in Terminal D and a Plaza Premium Lounge in Terminal E, so DFW travelers lose a nicer room rather than the only room. Las Vegas keeps The Club LAS in Terminal 3, which is a meaningful downgrade from the Sapphire Lounge but not a wipeout, and LAS also has Centurion and Capital One lounges for the right cardholders. San Diego holds on to the Aspire Lounge in Terminal 2 at SAN.

Phoenix and Philadelphia are worth checking individually before you travel, because the lounge mix at PHX and PHL leans heavily on airline clubs and card-specific spaces. The airport directory lists what is currently on file for each.

The LoungeKey question

LoungeKey is the issuer-branded sibling of Priority Pass, running on the same Collinson lounge inventory, which means a lounge that leaves the network is not reachable through either badge. If your access comes through a bank-issued LoungeKey membership, confirm in your own app or issuer portal rather than assuming, because the lounge list a bank exposes to its cardholders is not always identical to the public Priority Pass listing. Our comparison of Priority Pass, LoungeKey, and DragonPass explains how the three programs relate, and the LoungeKey overview covers what the membership normally includes.

One footnote for anyone flying through Asia: Priority Pass previously documented the Hong Kong Sapphire Lounge as an exception to the visit-entitlement rules, available to members in the same way as other network lounges rather than under the one-visit-then-pay structure applied in the United States.^[9] Treat that location as a separate case and check the app before you plan around it.

What this says about 2026

Zoom out and this is one move in a much larger pattern. Card-linked lounge access spent a decade expanding, and 2026 has been the year issuers started pulling it back toward their own cardholders: tighter guest rules, spend thresholds that unlock what used to be automatic, and networks that no longer trade seats with each other. We tracked the broader trend in the great lounge shakeup, and this announcement fits it neatly.

The logic is not hard to follow. A flagship lounge is expensive to build and expensive to run, and every seat filled by a member paying 75 dollars at the door is a seat not available to a cardholder paying several hundred dollars a year partly for that room. Restricting entry is also the cheapest way to fix crowding, which has been the loudest complaint about premium lounges for three years running. Whether that feels like an improvement depends entirely on which card is in your wallet.

What to do before 15 August

If you hold Priority Pass through a non-Chase card and you have not used your complimentary Sapphire Lounge visit this year, it expires with the network exit rather than at the end of December. A trip through one of these airports in the next two weeks is the last chance to spend it.

Beyond that, the sensible response is to re-check what your card actually buys you rather than what it bought you last year. If Priority Pass was the main reason you carry a particular annual fee, the value of that fee just moved. Our roundup of the best US cards for lounge access and the card comparison directory are the places to start, and if you only need a lounge two or three times a year, the day pass guide often works out cheaper than paying to keep a membership alive. There are also routes into lounges that cost nothing at all, which are worth knowing before you renew anything.

For a sense of where the seats are going instead, the network build-out continues at pace. Our tracker of new lounges opening in 2026 follows what Chase, Amex, and Capital One are adding, and the Priority Pass overview covers what the membership still opens worldwide, which remains substantial even after this subtraction.

Information is reviewed periodically. Always verify access policies before travel, because lounge networks and card benefits change without much warning. *Images are illustrative and may differ from actual lounges