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Amex closes its Mumbai Centurion Lounge, three months after opening one in Delhi

The Mumbai T2 Centurion Lounge is shut — Amex calls it temporary. Its lounge finder leaves one open lounge in T2 domestic, Delhi T1 stays open, and the Global Lounge Collection cuts doing the rounds are AU/NZ-only.

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What changed

The Centurion Lounge at Mumbai T2, Domestic Departures, Level 3 — across from Burger King — is shut. American Express's own lounge page lists its hours as "Closed" and says the lounge "will be temporarily closed until further notice", but carries no closure date and no reopening date. The 1 July 2026 date on this piece is not Amex's: it comes from a 27 June report in the travel trade publication TravelBiz Monitor, quoting an Amex statement, and everything below rests on that reporting for timing.

The two accounts also disagree on how final this is: TravelBiz Monitor says the lounge will "not reopen under its brand", while Amex's own live page still calls the closure temporary and gives no end date. Neither has since qualified the other, so treat the lounge as closed indefinitely and the permanence as unsettled.

It is not the end of Centurion Lounges in India. Amex opened one at Delhi T1D, Domestic — Level 4, near Gate 2 inside the security hold area — in March 2026, and its lounge finder still lists it open, with no closure notice.

Who is affected

Holders of the American Express Platinum Card flying out of Mumbai T2 domestic. Amex India's lounge finder now shows exactly one lounge open in T2 Domestic: the Travel Club Lounge. Amex's press statement, as reported by TravelBiz Monitor, points Platinum members to the Adani Business Class Lounge "regardless of class of travel" and Centurion members to the Coco Club restaurant lounge — but the finder lists neither under T2 Domestic, and places Adani Lounge East in T2 International. Until that changes, Travel Club is the domestic substitute you can count on.

The Global Lounge Collection changes doing the rounds this year — the Centurion guest cut from 8 July, and the Plaza Premium guest cut, Lufthansa withdrawal and Priority Pass restriction from 1 October — are not India changes. Amex publishes them on its Australia/New Zealand site, scoped to Australian-issued Platinum Personal and Business Cards, New Zealand-issued Platinum Card Plus, and, for the Centurion guest cut, to Sydney and Melbourne International Airports. Amex India's pages carry no such notice.

The American Express Platinum Travel Credit Card is untouched: its lounge access is a separate pool of 8 domestic visits a year, maximum 2 a quarter, plus a Priority Pass membership.

What to do

The visit survives; the reason you paid Platinum money for it does not. The Centurion Lounge was the one lounge in T2 domestic only the Platinum Card reached. What is left is a partner lounge a far cheaper Amex also reaches.

Price it on each card's own published fee. The Platinum Card is ₹66,000 plus applicable taxes — ₹77,880 a year at 18% GST. The Platinum Travel Credit Card is ₹5,000 plus taxes, or ₹5,900, and carries 8 domestic visits a year, 2 a quarter, plus a Priority Pass membership. The gap between the two fees is ₹77,880 − ₹5,900 = ₹71,980 a year.

We are not dividing that ₹71,980 by lounge visits, and neither should you. The gap does not buy lounge access alone: the Platinum Card's published renewal benefit is vouchers of up to ₹35,000 on ₹20 lakh of annual spend, and the fee also carries Taj Epicure, Marriott Bonvoy Gold, Hilton Honors Gold and Radisson Premium status and the concierge — none of which this closure touches. Nor is the cheaper card's lounge leg only its 8 visits, since its Priority Pass membership is a second channel. Any per-visit figure here would have to load benefits that still work onto a lounge that no longer exists.

The arithmetic that does survive is the fee gap net of what the fee returns in cash-equivalent form (how we compute). Clear ₹20 lakh of annual spend and the renewal voucher brings the gap down to ₹71,980 − ₹35,000 = ₹36,980 a year; miss that spend and you carry the full ₹71,980. Either way the remainder buys statuses, concierge and worldwide Global Lounge Collection access — not Mumbai T2 domestic, where the finder now lists one lounge and the ₹5,900 card reaches it too. If the Mumbai Centurion Lounge was why you renewed, it is not there to renew for. Amex Platinum Travel vs Axis Atlas compares cheaper routes to lounge access, and our guide to credit cards for international travel, forex and lounges sets out what a visit is worth.

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