American Express Will Open Airport Lounges in NYC and San Francisco

Faced with the pending loss of Platinum cardholders' free access to American Airlines and US Airways airport lounges in March 2014, American Express plans to open new lounges at LaGuardia and San Francisco airports.

These will be in addition to American Express Centurion lounges that the airline is currently operating in McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

American Airlines decided to drop American Express Platinum cardholders' free lounge access in favor of the Citi Executive AAdvantage World Elite MasterCard.

American Express CFO Jeffrey Campbell, speaking during the company's Q4 2013 and full year earnings conference call this afternoon, confirmed plans to continue with this "experiment" of Amex building its own airport lounges for cardholder access. Read more...