From today i.e 15th April 2020, ICICI Bank has made some changes to the domestic lounge access. From now you need to spend a minimum of Rs 5,000 in the previous quarter to access the benefits of the complimentary domestic lounge. If you have been issued both the MasterCard and American express variant for the single card, you need to spend Rs 5,000 on each card separately to avail the benefit on that card.
The spend based lounge access is not applicable for ICICI Bank Diamant Credit Card, ICICI Bank Emeralde Credit Card & ICICI Bank Emeralde Private Credit Card.
Also ICICI Bank has made no changes in the complimentary domestic lounge visits for all of its cards. Here is the chart detailing about the number of visits available for each of the ICICI Bank Card-
| ICICI Credit Card Variant | Complimentary Lounge Access(Per Quarter) |
|---|---|
| ICICI Bank Diamant Credit Card | Unlimited |
| ICICI Bank Emeralde Credit Card(Mastercard/AMEX) | Unlimited |
| ICICI Bank Emeralde Private Credit Card | Unlimited |
| ICICI Bank Sapphiro Credit Card (Visa & Mastercard) | 4 |
| ICICI Bank NRI Sapphiro Credit Card (Mastercard) | 4 |
| ICICI Bank Sapphiro Credit Card (American Express) | 4 |
| InterMiles ICICI Bank Sapphiro Credit Card (American Express) | 4 |
| InterMiles ICICI Bank Rubyx Credit Card (American Express) | 3 |
| ICICI Bank Rubyx Credit Card (Visa & Mastercard) | 2 |
| ICICI Bank Secured Rubyx Credit Card | 2 |
| InterMiles ICICI Bank Sapphiro Credit Card (Visa) | 2 |
| InterMiles ICICI Bank Rubyx Credit Card (Visa) | 2 |
| Ferrari Signature Credit Card by ICICI Bank | 2 |
| MakeMyTrip Signature Credit Card by ICICI Bank | 2 |
| Manchester United Signature Credit Card by ICICI Bank | 2 |
| InterMiles ICICI Bank Coral Credit Card (Visa) | 2 |
| ICICI Bank Rubyx Credit Card (American Express) | 2 |
| InterMiles ICICI Bank Coral Credit Card (American Express) | 2 |
| ICICI Bank Coral Credit Card (Visa & Mastercard) | 1 |
| ICICI Bank NRI Coral Credit Card | 1 |
| ICICI Bank Secured Coral Credit Card | 1 |
| ICICI Bank Expressions Credit Card | 1 |
| Ferrari Platinum Credit Card by ICICI Bank | 1 |
| MakeMyTrip Platinum Credit Card by ICICI Bank | 1 |
| Manchester United Platinum Credit Card by ICICI Bank | 1 |
| ICICI Bank Coral Credit Card (American Express) | 1 |
Bottomline
These days domestic lounge access is one of the major expenditure for credit card issuers as lot of people are availing this facility. With the spend based criteria, ICICI bank is trying to provide the domestic lounge facilities only to the actual users of the card. HDFC Bank has also done something similar with international lounge access earlier. The priority pass was issued to only those who have done 4 transactions in last 60 days.
