The brand new all-in-one Delta Sky Membership and Delta One Lounge at Seattle-Tacoma Airport (Sea-Tac) is outlined by its top. The magnificent, two-story house has a hovering roof and towering columns. Even the toilet stall doorways appear unusually tall.

And whether or not you’re within the Delta Sky Membership on the decrease flooring or the much more unique Delta One Lounge on the highest flooring, the excessive ceilings and big home windows give everybody an elevated expertise. Actually, if you need a style of a firstclass lounge expertise with out shopping for a firstclass ticket, the Delta Sky Membership on the decrease flooring might be as shut as you will get.

I used to be invited to a media preview of the lounge earlier than the Delta Sky Membership opened to the general public on June 25, 2025. The Delta One lounge opens June 26, 2025.

Right here’s what it was like inside.

The brand new Delta Sky Membership and Delta One lounge at Sea-Tac is situated close to gate A11. Friends will enter by means of a set of computerized sliding doorways, test in on the entrance after which trip the elevator to both the third flooring for the Delta Sky Membership or the fourth flooring to the Delta One lounge.

The Delta Sky Membership at A11 is open from 5:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. The Delta One lounge at A11 is open from 8:30 a.m. to eight:00 p.m.

Delta may even retain its present lounge, which is situated simply down the A concourse, nearer to gate A1 and the B gates.

Although the 2 lounges are in a related house, there are separate entry necessities for each.

• Cardholders with The Platinum Card® from American Specific, The Enterprise Platinum Card® from American Specific, Delta SkyMiles® Reserve American Specific Card or Delta SkyMiles® Reserve Enterprise American Specific Card. Phrases apply.

• SkyTeam airline premium cabin passengers.

• Delta Diamond, Platinum or Gold Medallion members touring internationally in Delta Premium Choose or Delta One.

In all instances, you’ll want a same-day boarding go for a Delta flight or an eligible flight on a accomplice airline.

In the meantime, Delta One Lounge entry is restricted to:

• Passengers departing or arriving with a same-day Delta One ticket.

• Similar-day departing or connecting flights in Air France La Premiere and Enterprise Class (long-haul), LATAM Premium Enterprise Class, KLM Enterprise Class, Korean Air First Class and Status Class or Virgin Atlantic Higher Class.

There aren’t any bank cards that may get you right into a Delta One lounge. Nevertheless, you need to use Delta SkyMiles or its companions’ miles to e book a qualifying ticket to realize entry to the Delta One lounges.

The 2-story lounge is constructed just like an atrium, with the second-level Delta One lounge overlooking the Delta Sky Membership beneath. It feels spacious, but it surely might get noisy when it’s at capability. The 14,000-square-foot Delta Sky Membership has 183 seats, whereas the ten,000-square-foot Delta One lounge has 221 seats.

Each ranges have many seating choices, from sq. solo cubicles to lengthy, communal tables. And {the electrical} retailers to recharge electronics are plentiful.

The design additionally pays tribute to the Emerald Metropolis in shade scheme and supplies. This lounge is accented with emerald and navy tones, in addition to some visually compelling wavy wooden buildings to echo the water and forests surrounding Seattle.

On each ranges, pure gentle pours in from the home windows on two sides of the lounge and presents views of Mt. Rainier (hidden behind a Hilton DoubleTree lodge and clouds within the image beneath), a small lake, a nook of the tarmac and the sunshine rail line.

The Delta One lounge lets visitors perch proper subsequent to the home windows on an enormous, lined wraparound outside terrace.

The Delta One lounge’s outside terrace has loads of seating (72 outside seats in all) and due to the lounge’s location on the sting of the tarmac, it’s not as loud as different outside airport areas the place the whining of airplane engines drowns out any peace you would possibly’ve momentarily discovered.

The Delta Sky Membership on the decrease degree is all indoors, however equally, it presents loads of areas to benefit from the surroundings, with armchairs and tables lining one wall of home windows. The opposite wall has an attention grabbing bar that’s one step decrease than the primary flooring to keep away from obstructing the view.

The buffet on the Delta Sky Membership degree has a formidable selection for simply three islands of meals. After I visited, there have been sandwiches, salads, charcuterie, and sizzling meals, together with mac and cheese and chipotle BBQ ribs.

The overall supervisor of the Delta Sky Membership informed me that the clam chowder from the Seattle chain Ivar’s is so in style on the earlier Sky Membership location that some vacationers purposefully plan a layover in Seattle to have a style.

There’s additionally a dessert desk for vacationers hankering for one thing candy. A few of the choices might embody coconut cream pie and marionberry crumble.

Across the nook from the buffet is the drink station with an array of cold and hot drinks. The espresso bar includes a native espresso roaster you might need heard of — Starbucks.

And the bar serves complimentary cocktails, beer and wine.

The Delta One lounge options an la carte menu, desk service and an open kitchen to observe the magic occur.

There are some good Asian-inspired dishes on the menu, together with sticky pork ribs glazed in hoisin sauce and edamame dumplings. I used to be additionally impressed with the dishes that function domestically sourced seafood, such because the scrumptious Dungeness crab stuffed cannelloni, a stuffed pasta dish.

For dessert, Delta One visitors can order choices, such because the Rainier cherry sundae (one of the best kind of cherry hands-down) or a cheese plate from Beecher’s, an iconic Seattle cheesemonger.

The espresso on the Delta One lounge degree is sourced from Caffe Umbria, and the baristas may even customise your latte for particular events.

Every lounge has its personal set of restrooms with a number of particular person bathroom stalls. The mirrors and doorways are very tall within the toilet, which once more, matches with the complete lounge’s vertical design.

There are showers accessible to visitors of each lounges, however the showers are situated on the Delta Sky Membership degree. There’s a kiosk the place you may join a bathe time slot. The bogs are stocked with Grown Alchemy merchandise, and the showers embody some additional facilities like a gown and an arrogance equipment.

The mixture of two lounges in a single house is a primary for the airline. The design will go a great distance in making each lounges really feel spacious, even throughout crowded occasions (which there are certain to be).

With different airways racing to construct new premium lounges and bigger flagships, it looks like out-lounging Delta might be a tall order.