Just a friendly reminder this lounge is now closed. It doesn’t look like American Express is giving anything to cardholders who have been inconvenienced and the ‘The Club at DFW” is basically your only real alternative (Minute Suites aren’t really a lounge). To make matters worse, The Club is a temporary location and from all reports it’s absolutely awful (some pictures here).
Hello, the Centurion lounge at DFW is closed between July 24 to August 14th. In the meantime, terminal D, card members have access to The Club at DFW and minute suites. You will need your Priority pass card.^JD
— Ask Amex (@AskAmex) July 25, 2018
According to a sign found by Twitter user @obeanz71Â the American Express Centurion lounge at DFW will be closed for three weeks from July 24th until August 14th. It says that updates will be available online or via the AmEx app but currently there is no mention of it in app or on the website. American Express was supposed to open a new bigger centurion lounge at DFW at a new location in the first half of 2018. They have obviously missed that deadline and it will obviously be much longer than originally predicted, otherwise I don’t see why they would close the current lounge for three weeks to make repairs.
It doesn’t look like cardholders will receive any sort of compensation for the inconvenience. Platinum & Centurion cardholders do have access to Priority Pass, so they can access the Minute Suites at Terminal A & D or The Club at DFW at Terminal D (this is also a temporary location). I expect it’s going to be absolute mayhem at the The Club until this reopens. I suspect people that had made layovers based on having access to this lounge won’t be too happy.
As some people note in the comments, it’s possible they plan to open the new lounge on the 14th or thereabouts and need to close the existing lounge before then (e.g to move furniture or just to have staff set up the new lounge). That’s certainly possible, but I think American Express would communicate that better as it’s certainly better to be opening the new lounge than just saying repairs need to be done to existing lounge.
Hat tip to OMaaT
Have you all heard about this? @thepointsguy @OneMileataTime @mommypoints pic.twitter.com/JYKZEcPhTg
— O (@obeanz71) July 19, 2018
