The days of unfettered Delta Sky Club access with your credit card are over, but American Express is going to help you track your allotted visits.
Yes, after more than a year of anticipation (or dread?), Delta and American Express have finally cracked down on your lounge access.
As of Saturday, Feb. 1, travelers with the airline’s top-tier *delta reserve card* are now limited to 15 days of Sky Club visits each calendar year (from Feb. 1 to Jan. 31, 2026). It’s even worse for *amex platinum*: Those cardholders are now capped at 10 days of Sky Club visits annually.
Compared to the unlimited access cardholders have been enjoying for years, it might be tough to ration your Delta lounge hopping.
You’ll get a break when visiting multiple lounges on the same trip, as Delta counts any Sky Club visit in a 24-hour period as just one of your 10 (or 15) visits. And make sure to use this crafty trick to get four more visits a year if you’re a Platinum Card holder, too.
But if you’re a frequent traveler used to dipping into the Sky Club willy-nilly using your credit card, you’re in for some big changes – and you’re likely going to have to be selective about your Sky Club time.
Luckily, American Express has launched a new tracking feature, so at least you don’t have to monitor and count your Sky Club visits on your own.
How to Find Amex Delta SkyClub Visit Trackers
To find your Sky Club visit counter, you won’t go through Delta’s app or website. You’re going to go straight to American Express instead.
You can access your Delta Sky Club visit counter through Amex’s website or the Amex mobile app.
The tracker is hidden among Amex’s long list of card benefits and credits on both cards. When you get to your “Rewards and Benefits” tab on the American Express app (make sure you’re on the correct credit card, too), you’ll get a carousel of “Benefits” at the bottom.
Because the Sky Club tracker is new, it’s at the bottom of the list, so you’ll want to select “View All Benefits.”
Then, at the bottom, you’ll see “Delta Sky Club Access” along with a new “Access Limited” disclaimer.
When you touch that button, you’ll see your new counter, which should read 10/10 visits remaining if you have the American Express Platinum Card or 15 if you have the Delta SkyMiles Reserve Card unless you burned some visits over the weekend.
Finding the same counter on your web browser is even easier. Under “Rewards and Benefits,” you scroll down the list of benefits until you see this.
Simply click “Learn More” and you’ll see the full tracker like you would on the app, too.
A Quick Refresher on Delta’s Looming Lounge Limits
Delta has stopped selling day passes, turned away travelers with the *delta skymiles platinum card*, and banned flyers who booked a Delta basic economy ticket from getting into their lounges – all in the name of reducing overcrowding in its Sky Clubs. But now we’re seeing the biggest changes yet.
This all goes back to Delta’s unpopular overhaul of its Medallion status program when the airline drastically increased how much you need to spend to climb the ranks of status while finally cracking down on how often travelers can enter Sky Clubs using premium travel credit cards. After intense backlash, the carrier eventually rolled back some of the worst of those changes.
Still, even the less painful tweaks sting. Some highlights and finer points of the new policies taking effect Feb. 1 include:
- *delta reserve card* holders will be limited to 15 Sky Club visits a year, while *amex platinum* is capped at just 10.
- But any Sky Club entries within the same 24-hour period count as just one “visit,” so you could head to the lounge before your first flight and again during a connection without burning two precious slots, for example. The same goes for visiting one lounge before departure and another upon arrival.
- After using up that allotment of 10 or 15, you can pay $50 per additional visit.
- Visits add up across all eligible cards, meaning you’d get 25 visits annually with both The Platinum Card and the Delta Reserve Card.
- Authorized users on the Amex Platinum or Delta Reserve get their own set of 10 or 15 lounge visits, respectively.
- Short of buying a Delta lounge membership (which starts at $695 a year), the only way to regain truly unlimited Sky Club access is by spending a whopping $75,000 on either card. No, thank you.
Beyond that, the same Sky Club restrictions apply. You need a same-day Delta boarding pass to get in the door … and you can only enter within three hours of departure.
Read our full guide to Delta Sky Club access!
Bottom Line
Travelers using American Express credit cards are now limited to 10 or 15 Delta Sky Club visit days per year, depending on which card is in your wallet.
Now, through the American Express app or website, you can easily keep track of your Sky Club visits.
