Another lounge nerf.
The Amex Platinum and Centurion cards are losing Lufthansa Lounge access effective October 1, 2026. That covers the Business Class lounges and the Senator lounges across the entire Lufthansa Group.
This is the second negative change Amex has announced in about a month. Not a great look on a card that runs $895 a year.
What You Currently Get (Until September 30)
If you hold the Amex Platinum or Centurion right now, the Lufthansa lounge benefit works like this:
- Lufthansa Business Class Lounges — access when flying any class of service on a Lufthansa Group airline
- Lufthansa Senator Lounges — access when flying business class on a Lufthansa Group airline
The "any class of service" piece is what made this worth something. You could be flying economy from Frankfurt to New York and still walk into a premium business class lounge. That goes away on October 1.
The Lufthansa Group Airlines
The benefit applies when you're flying any of these carriers:
- Austrian Airlines
- Brussels Airlines
- Air Dolomiti
- Edelweiss Air
- Eurowings
- Discover (formerly Eurowings Discover)
- Lufthansa
- Swiss International Airlines
My Take
I don't think most Platinum holders were using this benefit regularly. Most of the lounges are in Europe; you have to be flying a specific airline group to get in, and the US doesn't have many options. It was a nice-to-have for a specific kind of trip.
The concerning part is the pattern. Amex already cut another Platinum benefit a few weeks ago (Saks credit), and now this one is getting axed too. Two negative changes on a premium card inside a month are kind of concerning.
