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      <title>Best credit cards for airport lounge access in 2026</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A practical way to compare premium cards by the lounges they actually open, not just the headline benefit list.</description>
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      <title>Priority Pass vs card-branded lounges: what actually gets you in</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How to think about Priority Pass, Centurion, Sapphire, Capital One, airline clubs, and other access programs before picking a card.</description>
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      <title>JFK lounge access by credit card: the practical guide</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A focused guide to using premium credit cards for lounge access at JFK, including card, terminal, and network tradeoffs.</description>
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      <title>How to choose a lounge card by route, not hype</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A route-first framework for picking a lounge access card without overvaluing benefits you will rarely use.</description>
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      <title>U.S. Bank Altitude Connect (personal + business) added</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Added the refreshed U.S. Bank Altitude Connect Visa Signature and its business counterpart. Both cards include 4 Priority Pass visits per year for the primary cardholder and do not cover guests on those visits. Annual fees and earn structure pulled directly from U.S. Bank&#39;s April 2026 disclosures.</description>
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      <title>Ritz-Carlton Credit Card guest policy tightened</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Chase updated the Ritz-Carlton Priority Pass Select benefit on January 15, 2026 (announced in March) to remove complimentary guest access. Cardholders retain unlimited visits but any traveling companion now pays the standard $35 Priority Pass guest fee. Our ranking rubric now flags this card as &#39;restricted guest access&#39;.</description>
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      <title>Bilt Palladium launched — tracking lounge benefits</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Bilt&#39;s invite-only Palladium card went live in early February. We&#39;ve added it with its published Priority Pass Select benefit (unlimited visits, 2 guests complimentary) and Amex Centurion guest access when flying eligible routes. We&#39;ll revisit once real-world cardholders confirm the Centurion door policy in practice.</description>
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      <title>Trip Planner launched</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Paste a multi-leg itinerary and the Trip Planner tells you which of your cards get you in at each stop, including connections. It flags gaps where no card you hold has access so you can decide whether to buy a day pass or grab a Priority Pass add-on. Works offline once loaded — no account required.</description>
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      <title>Amex Platinum Centurion guest policy changing July 8, 2026</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>American Express announced that starting July 8, 2026, Platinum and Business Platinum cardholders will only be able to use their two complimentary guest slots at Centurion Lounges within 5 hours of their scheduled departure, and guests must be on the same flight. The unlimited $75K spend-waiver for guest fees is unchanged. We&#39;ve updated the Amex Platinum and Business Platinum rule text to reflect both the current and upcoming rules.</description>
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      <title>Centurion Lounge network — added 12 locations we had missed</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A dataset audit turned up twelve Centurion and Escape locations we weren&#39;t tracking, including the expanded LAX Tom Bradley Centurion, SEA Concourse A, and the new Escape by Centurion at AUS. All are now plotted with terminal detail and cross-linked to every card whose access rules apply.</description>
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      <title>Delta Sky Club 10-visit cap live for Amex Platinum</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The 10-visits-per-Medallion-Year cap for Amex Platinum cardholders flying same-day Delta took effect February 1, 2025, but we shipped the rule update across every affected card in November once Delta clarified how visits would be counted on codeshare and partner-operated flights. The $75K spend waiver that unlocks unlimited visits is unchanged.</description>
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      <title>Chase Sapphire Terrace opened at JFK Terminal 1</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The first East Coast Chase Sapphire Terrace opened at JFK T1 in October, joining the existing Chase Sapphire Lounge by The Club on the same concourse. Sapphire Reserve, Ritz-Carlton, and JP Morgan Reserve cardholders get complimentary access; no Priority Pass route in. Added to the JFK airport page and all three card pages.</description>
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      <title>Site launched</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Lounge Pass went live in September 2025 covering 38 cards, ~200 lounges, and the top 50 US airports. Launch shipped with the card rankings page, airport lounge finder, and per-card access rule pages. Everything remains free, no account required, no content gated behind sign-up.</description>
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