Kolkata (CCU) airport lounges — which credit card
gets you in
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport runs 4 lounges we can put a source under. 96 of the 107 cards we track open at least
one of those doors
— 60 of them only if you clear a spend or tier gate.
Below: every door with its terminal, hours, stay cap, guest fee and the exact cards that walk
in. No "check with your bank".
4 lounges7 access networks0 A-grades of 4 graded
Which card gets you in
Lounge access is not one thing — it is 7 different machines at this airport, and your card is on some of them and not others. Each block below is one
machine: the doors it opens here, and every tracked card that carries it. A card in more than
one block gets in more than one way.
Priority Pass
4 of 4 doors · 55 cards
A membership your card carries. The kit arrives by post, the door reads the membership — not the card.
Opens: Travel Club Lounge ×2 · Travel Club Lounge Annex · Travel Club Lounge (Gate 10)
The lounge admits the card itself, on the issuer’s own list. No network in between — shortest list, most reliable swipe. No card "carries" this the way it carries Priority Pass — the issuer
publishes a list and the door reads the card, so we only claim it where an issuer names a
card we track.
° The access is spend- or tier-gated: hover the card, or open its page for the exact
trigger. A gate you miss is a door that does not open, whatever the brochure said.
Every lounge at CCU, door by door
Terminal, side of security, operator, hours, stay cap, guest fee, walk-in price — and the
cards that walk in. Each door carries the document we read it from.
C Travel Club Lounge
Integrated T2 — Domestic (mezzanine level, turn left after security)
The main DOMESTIC Travel Club (PP CCU6; PP files it under 'Terminal 1' but it's the domestic wing of the integrated terminal) — the workhorse room every bank list points at, 04:00–00:00, under-4s free. Visa's mid-2026 domestic list carries all four CCU rooms (CCU01–04).
The better of CCU's TWO international rooms (PP CCU7, 4.0/5; Visa CCU02) — the weaker twin sits opposite Gate 10 (CCU9) and is the one Amex contracted, so Amex cards walk past this room to the worse one. Air India Maharaja Lounge next door is airline/alliance-only. No Plaza Premium at CCU despite what some 2026 blogspam claims.
Grade C — 3.4/5 — the weaker of CCU's two international rooms
Second international Travel Club (PP CCU9), opposite Gate 10 with a separate smoking room; lowest-rated lounge at CCU — walk to the mezzanine Travel Club (CCU7) if you have time, unless you are paying with Amex. Amex names exactly one international room at Kolkata and its own directions read 'After security, the lounge is located opposite Gate 10' — this one, not the better CCU7. Available on Platinum Reserve's list, 'Not Available' on Platinum Travel's. PP and Visa (CCU04, 'Annex International') confirmed; other networks unverified.
Not one door at CCU publishes a walk-in price. That is not the same as "you cannot pay" —
most desks will sell you an entry — it means no rate we can source, so we quote none. If a
card below doesn't open the door, budget for a desk quote in local currency.
Worth doing the arithmetic before you swipe: a ₹3,000 walk-in is a bad trade against a card
whose whole annual fee buys a season of visits — that comparison is exactly what
the lounge-card ranking computes.
This is one airport out of 119 with a page of its own — the full
map, every airport and every railway lounge we hold, is on
the lounge map.