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Istanbul (IST) airport lounges — which credit card gets you in

Istanbul Airport runs 3 lounges we can put a source under. 59 of the 107 cards we track open at least one of those doors — 32 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".

3 lounges 2 access networks 1 A-grade of 3 graded

Which card gets you in

Lounge access is not one thing — it is 2 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

3 of 3 doors · 55 cards

A membership your card carries. The kit arrives by post, the door reads the membership — not the card.

Opens: iGA Lounge (International) · iGA Lounge (Domestic) · Pop up Lounge by iGA

HDFC Infinia Metal Axis Atlas Axis Magnus for Burgundy ICICI Emeralde Private Metal Axis Magnus (legacy) Axis Olympus Axis Burgundy Private IDFC FIRST Private
and 47 more cards on Priority Pass

HDFC Regalia Gold · HDFC BizPower · IndusInd Tiger · RBL Nova · Kotak Air+ · Standard Chartered Ultimate · Axis Bank Reserve · ICICI Times Black · Amex Platinum Charge · Axis Bank PRIMUS · Axis Miles & More World Select · ixigo AU · Amex Platinum Reserve · IndusInd Avios Visa Infinite · Tata Neu Infinity HDFC Bank · SBI Card MILES PRIME · Axis Miles & More World · Axis Bank SELECT · Adani One ICICI Bank Signature · IndiGo Axis Bank Premium Credit Card · Emirates Skywards ICICI Bank Emeralde · RBL iGlobe · Kotak Solitaire · SBI Card MILES ELITE · RBL World Safari · KrisFlyer SBI Card · RBL Insignia Preferred Banking World Card · Emirates Skywards ICICI Bank Sapphiro · SBI Card ELITE · MakeMyTrip ICICI Bank · Kotak White Reserve · MakeMyTrip ICICI Bank Signature · AU Zenith · SBI Card PRIME · Kotak Privy League Signature · Samsung Axis Bank Infinite · IDFC FIRST Wealth · IndusInd Pinnacle World · ICICI Sapphiro · ICICI Bank Emeralde · AU Vetta · DBS Vantage · IndusInd Pioneer Legacy · IndusInd Pioneer Heritage · AU Zenith+ · RBL Lumière · HDFC Regalia

° 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 IST, 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.

A iGA Lounge (International)

International Departures — Mezzanine floor above duty-free, left after passport control

iGA Istanbul Airport

€115 / day pass

Hours
24 hours
Max stay
2h
Guests
US$35/guest via PP
Walk-in
€115 / day pass
Priority PassDiners Club
buffetalcoholwifi

Grade A — 4.3/5 — 600-seat giant with an outdoor terrace

The only permanent Priority Pass room in IST's enormous international terminal — 55,000 sq ft, hot food stations, Turkish tea corners and the airport's sole outdoor terrace; Diners Club (IST9) gets in too. 2-hour cap enforced.

59 cards open this door

HDFC Infinia Metal Axis Atlas Axis Magnus for Burgundy ICICI Emeralde Private Metal HDFC Diners Club Black Metal Axis Magnus (legacy) Axis Olympus Axis Burgundy Private
and 51 more

IDFC FIRST Private · Marriott Bonvoy HDFC Bank · HDFC Biz Black Metal · HDFC Regalia Gold · HDFC BizPower · IndusInd Tiger · RBL Nova · Kotak Air+ · Standard Chartered Ultimate · Axis Bank Reserve · ICICI Times Black · HDFC Diners Club Privilege · Amex Platinum Charge · Axis Bank PRIMUS · Axis Miles & More World Select · ixigo AU · Amex Platinum Reserve · IndusInd Avios Visa Infinite · Tata Neu Infinity HDFC Bank · SBI Card MILES PRIME · Axis Miles & More World · Axis Bank SELECT · Adani One ICICI Bank Signature · IndiGo Axis Bank Premium Credit Card · Emirates Skywards ICICI Bank Emeralde · RBL iGlobe · Kotak Solitaire · SBI Card MILES ELITE · RBL World Safari · KrisFlyer SBI Card · RBL Insignia Preferred Banking World Card · Emirates Skywards ICICI Bank Sapphiro · SBI Card ELITE · MakeMyTrip ICICI Bank · Kotak White Reserve · MakeMyTrip ICICI Bank Signature · AU Zenith · SBI Card PRIME · Kotak Privy League Signature · Samsung Axis Bank Infinite · IDFC FIRST Wealth · IndusInd Pinnacle World · ICICI Sapphiro · ICICI Bank Emeralde · AU Vetta · DBS Vantage · IndusInd Pioneer Legacy · IndusInd Pioneer Heritage · AU Zenith+ · RBL Lumière · HDFC Regalia

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B iGA Lounge (Domestic)

Domestic Departures — near Gate 11, after security

iGA Istanbul Airport

Hours
24 hours
Max stay
2h
Guests
US$35/guest via PP
Walk-in
no published price
Priority Pass
buffetalcoholwifi

Grade B — 4.3/5 — strong for a domestic room

Useful only if you connect onto a Turkish domestic hop; the 2-hour cap became official on 1 Jun 2026.

55 cards open this door

HDFC Infinia Metal Axis Atlas Axis Magnus for Burgundy ICICI Emeralde Private Metal Axis Magnus (legacy) Axis Olympus Axis Burgundy Private IDFC FIRST Private
and 47 more

HDFC Regalia Gold · HDFC BizPower · IndusInd Tiger · RBL Nova · Kotak Air+ · Standard Chartered Ultimate · Axis Bank Reserve · ICICI Times Black · Amex Platinum Charge · Axis Bank PRIMUS · Axis Miles & More World Select · ixigo AU · Amex Platinum Reserve · IndusInd Avios Visa Infinite · Tata Neu Infinity HDFC Bank · SBI Card MILES PRIME · Axis Miles & More World · Axis Bank SELECT · Adani One ICICI Bank Signature · IndiGo Axis Bank Premium Credit Card · Emirates Skywards ICICI Bank Emeralde · RBL iGlobe · Kotak Solitaire · SBI Card MILES ELITE · RBL World Safari · KrisFlyer SBI Card · RBL Insignia Preferred Banking World Card · Emirates Skywards ICICI Bank Sapphiro · SBI Card ELITE · MakeMyTrip ICICI Bank · Kotak White Reserve · MakeMyTrip ICICI Bank Signature · AU Zenith · SBI Card PRIME · Kotak Privy League Signature · Samsung Axis Bank Infinite · IDFC FIRST Wealth · IndusInd Pinnacle World · ICICI Sapphiro · ICICI Bank Emeralde · AU Vetta · DBS Vantage · IndusInd Pioneer Legacy · IndusInd Pioneer Heritage · AU Zenith+ · RBL Lumière · HDFC Regalia

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B Pop up Lounge by iGA

International Departures — airside airside

iGA Istanbul Airport

Hours
24 hours
Max stay
2h
Guests
US$35/guest via PP
Walk-in
no published price
Priority Pass
buffetwifi

Grade B — Overflow relief for the 600-seat main room

iGA's second international PP room — a pop-up format opened to bleed pressure off the main mezzanine lounge; same 2h cap. iGA's Sleepod nap units (international side, 24h) are on PP separately (ist10).

55 cards open this door

HDFC Infinia Metal Axis Atlas Axis Magnus for Burgundy ICICI Emeralde Private Metal Axis Magnus (legacy) Axis Olympus Axis Burgundy Private IDFC FIRST Private
and 47 more

HDFC Regalia Gold · HDFC BizPower · IndusInd Tiger · RBL Nova · Kotak Air+ · Standard Chartered Ultimate · Axis Bank Reserve · ICICI Times Black · Amex Platinum Charge · Axis Bank PRIMUS · Axis Miles & More World Select · ixigo AU · Amex Platinum Reserve · IndusInd Avios Visa Infinite · Tata Neu Infinity HDFC Bank · SBI Card MILES PRIME · Axis Miles & More World · Axis Bank SELECT · Adani One ICICI Bank Signature · IndiGo Axis Bank Premium Credit Card · Emirates Skywards ICICI Bank Emeralde · RBL iGlobe · Kotak Solitaire · SBI Card MILES ELITE · RBL World Safari · KrisFlyer SBI Card · RBL Insignia Preferred Banking World Card · Emirates Skywards ICICI Bank Sapphiro · SBI Card ELITE · MakeMyTrip ICICI Bank · Kotak White Reserve · MakeMyTrip ICICI Bank Signature · AU Zenith · SBI Card PRIME · Kotak Privy League Signature · Samsung Axis Bank Infinite · IDFC FIRST Wealth · IndusInd Pinnacle World · ICICI Sapphiro · ICICI Bank Emeralde · AU Vetta · DBS Vantage · IndusInd Pioneer Legacy · IndusInd Pioneer Heritage · AU Zenith+ · RBL Lumière · HDFC Regalia

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If no card of yours opens a door

One door here publishes a walk-in price. Pay it and you are in, card or no card — the prices are the operators' own published rates, and desks quote higher at peak. Everything else at IST is cards-and-invites only.

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.