Did You Know Your Amex Platinum Now Gets You Into Lufthansa Lounges on Any Group Flight?

American Express and Lufthansa have updated the lounge access rules for Platinum Card holders. You can now access Lufthansa-branded lounges when flying any Lufthansa Group airline, not just Lufthansa, SWISS, and Austrian. You do this by simply showing your American Express Platinum card at the lounge desk.

This is an often forgotten little perk. So it's good to see that this benefit is finally being brought in line with what everyone expected anyway.

What's changed

Previously, lounge access required a same-day boarding pass on Lufthansa, SWISS, or Austrian Airlines specifically. The eligible airlines now include the full Lufthansa Group:

• Air Dolomiti

• Austrian Airlines

• Brussels Airlines

• Discover Airlines

• Edelweiss Air

• Eurowings

• Lufthansa

• Lufthansa City Airlines

• SWISS

This is already live in the Amex Lounge Finder. ITA Airways is not currently listed despite its ongoing integration into the Lufthansa Group.

Access requirements for the Lufthansa Business Lounge at Heathrow T2

How access works

With your Platinum card, the lounge tier you can access depends on the cabin you are travelling in:

• Economy → Lufthansa Business Lounge

• Business → Lufthansa Senator Lounge

You need your physical Amex Platinum card, a passport, and a same-day boarding pass. No companions are permitted. Partners will need their own supplementary Platinum card to gain access.

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For passengers departing Heathrow, the main difference is that a Brussels Airlines or Eurowings boarding pass will now get you into the Lufthansa Lounge, where previously it wouldn't.

This also applies when transiting through Frankfurt or Munich, where Lufthansa has increasingly shifted routes to Eurowings and Discover Airlines. If you've been caught out by this before, that's no longer an issue.

Our take

This corrects something that had become increasingly out of step with how Lufthansa actually operates its network. It's not a new benefit, it's the existing benefit working the way it probably should have for a while. So it worth knowing about if you fly Lufthansa Group carriers with any regularity.

Sam

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