Newark Liberty Lounges (EWR): Every Lounge and How to Get In

The terminal decides your options. Terminal A, the new building opened in 2023, hosts American, Delta, JetBlue, Air Canada and a slice of United's domestic schedule, and holds three lounges plus a spa. Terminal B takes nearly all the foreign carriers, from British Airways and Lufthansa to SAS and La Compagnie, with four airline run rooms and the USO. Terminal C is United territory, the heart of its transatlantic hub, with two United Clubs, the Polaris Lounge and the only 24 hour option at the airport.

Hours below were checked on 6 May 2026. The pattern is unusual: Terminal A and C lounges open with the first bank between 4 am and 5 am and close by 22:30, while Terminal B's airline lounges mostly sleep until mid afternoon because their flights leave at night. Nothing here is a lounge you can spend the night in except a paid Minute Suites room.

One quirk works in your favour. United operates an airside shuttle bus for Star Alliance passengers, so they can reach a lounge in another terminal without clearing security again. The A to C route runs 4 am to midnight, and one way routes feed Terminal B from both A and C between 1 pm and 11 pm, boarding near gates A28, B67 and C70. Everyone else changes terminals on the landside AirTrain and starts the screening queue from scratch.

Terminal B is where Newark's lounge map is weakest. The airline rooms open mid afternoon for the overnight wave to Europe, so a morning or midday departure from B means no lounge at all unless you qualify for the SAS Lounge or the USO. Foreign carriers without their own room generally contract one of these doors for their premium passengers; check your airline's airport page for the current arrangement.

Priority Pass is weaker at Newark than at any comparable American hub: no conventional lounge takes it. The card buys one set spa treatment at Be Relax near gate A7 and the first hour in a Minute Suites room near gate C125, and memberships issued through Amex and Capital One are excluded at the suites. Art and Lounge in Terminal B, once the lone Priority Pass lounge here, has dropped off current rosters; whether it returns is to be confirmed. The full strategy lives in the EWR Priority Pass guide.

United keys matter most. A United Club membership or a 59 dollar one time pass opens three clubs across Terminals A and C, and Star Alliance Gold or an international Star Alliance premium cabin does the same. The Polaris Lounge sits above all of that and only a long haul international business or first boarding pass opens it.

American Express currently means the Delta Sky Club: Platinum cardholders get 10 visits per year when flying Delta the same day, and Delta Reserve cardholders get 15. The 17,000 square foot Centurion Lounge under construction in Terminal A will change Newark's card lounge picture completely when it opens.

Paying at the door works at four doors: the United Clubs at 59 dollars, the Admirals Club at 79 dollars or 7,900 miles, the Lufthansa lounge at 35 dollars for the airline's own premium economy passengers, and Minute Suites from 65 dollars per hour.

Class of travel and status covers the rest, and the alliance map is tidy: oneworld means the Admirals Club in A and the BA lounge in B, SkyTeam means the Sky Club in A and the SAS Lounge in B, Star Alliance means almost everything United touches. Rules shift and lounges move, so confirm the door you are counting on the day you fly.