Chase Will Lose Its Austin Airport Lounge In March – View from the Wing

I covered all of the airport lounge moving pieces at the Austin airport like plans for all airlines to move to different spaces, and to add credit card and common use lounges, as new construction finishes.

However the most immediate change deserves to be pulled out separately: the Chase Sapphire Terrace will go away “March 2025” with the space opening back up to the public according to an airport presentation.

A year and a half ago Chase opened its Sapphire Terrace at the Austin airport. This took the public use outdoor courtyard upstairs at the east end of the concourse, beside the Delta Sky Club, and turned it into a private use space for Chase Sapphire Reserve and J.P. Morgan Reserve cardmembers (with no Priority Pass option).

It is a mostly-outdoor space that’s stylish, but subject to the vagaries of weather. The indoor space is cramped with little seating, but features beer and soft drinks as well as complimentary vended packaged food.

This was always intended as temporary. Use of the space will cease in March 2025, according to the presentation, and it will revert to public use.

Chase now has experience in the airport, and an airport relationship, so strikes me as a front-runner to take one of the spaces that becomes available in the coming years.