Gimhae airport lounge: two Sky Hubs now, not one

Gimhae has lounges in its international terminal, and which one you can enter depends on your ticket, your card and the time of day. Priority Pass lists four, all airside: two Sky Hubs, an Air Busan lounge and a Korean Air lounge. The Korea Airports Corporation, which runs the airport, also rents out a paid room in its general waiting hall, booked by phone.

Which lounges does Busan Gimhae airport have?

Four lounges in Gimhae’s international terminal appear on Priority Pass’s Korean pages read on 10 October 2026, plus the airport’s own paid hall. Hours are as each page prints them.

Both Sky Hubs set a five hour maximum stay. The Air Busan Lounge sets three hours. The Sky Hub Lounge’s page adds that its hours may change with the flight schedule, which is worth remembering for a late departure.

Gimhae has two Sky Hub lounges now, not one

Priority Pass lists two Sky Hubs at Gimhae, and they are at opposite ends of the departures floor. The Sky Hub Lounge sits on the second floor between gates 9 and 10. The N Sky Hub Lounge sits on the second floor opposite gates 2 and 3. Both are listed from 06:30 to 21:30 every day, and the N Sky Hub Lounge lets children under three in free.

An English lounge guide last updated on 20 January 2023 names one Sky Hub at Gimhae and gives it no location. Lounge guides go stale without saying so, so treat any Gimhae page that names a single Sky Hub as incomplete, check which of the two it means, and pick the one nearer your gate.

When the N Sky Hub opened is not on any page read here. Priority Pass prints no opening date and the operator’s own pages did not load.

Busan airport lounge with Priority Pass: which one to pick

On an international departure, the Air Busan Lounge opens earliest and closes latest of the four on Priority Pass’s list. It runs 06:00 to 22:00, on the third floor: after passport control, turn right and take the stairs or escalator up. It allows three hours, children under two enter free, and the page lists free massage chairs.

For a flight after 21:30, the Air Busan Lounge is the only one of the four still listed as open. Between 06:00 and 06:30, it is the only one of the four already open.

Both Sky Hubs allow five hours, which suits a long wait better than Air Busan’s three. Pick by gate: the N Sky Hub sits by gates 2 and 3, the Sky Hub between 9 and 10.

Korean Air lounge at Gimhae: who gets in, and when

Priority Pass’s page for the Korean Air lounge at Gimhae limits it to passengers on flights that Korean Air or a SkyTeam airline operates. A card holder may bring up to two guests, children under two enter free, and the page warns that entry may be refused when the lounge is full. It sits on the third floor next to gate 4.

Priority Pass lists its hours as 07:00 to 13:00 every day. Read that as a morning lounge. An afternoon Korean Air departure from Gimhae should plan on a Sky Hub or the Air Busan Lounge instead.

Those hours come from Priority Pass, not Korean Air, whose lounge pages load as an app and returned no text. Treat 07:00 to 13:00 as Priority Pass’s reading and check the airline before relying on a Korean Air business class ticket to get you a seat after lunch.

Air Busan lounge: who gets in, and the 2023 price

The Air Busan Lounge is Air Busan’s own, on the third floor of the international departure area. Metro Seoul reported on 21 February 2023 that Air Busan was reopening it from 22 February, after shutting it in March 2020, and that Air Busan had opened it in September 2018 as the first lounge run by a Korean low-cost airline.

The same report named three ways in: a lounge pass, Air Busan’s international add-on bundles, or Priority Pass. A pass then cost 25,000 won per person, sold at the airport on the day or on Air Busan’s website and app up to two days before departure. Children under 24 months entered free.

Air Busan’s own lounge page refused the request here. The 25,000 won figure is therefore from 2023, so treat it as a 2023 price and check Air Busan’s app before you count on it.

Gimhae airport lounge price: the airport’s own paid hall

The airport operator’s paid hall is the one Gimhae lounge with a published price from the body that runs it. The Korea Airports Corporation rents it in the general waiting hall of both terminals, with TV, flight information screens and drinks, and prices it for a party of five.

The booking rules are the hard part. You phone 051-974-3816 the day before use and use the hall only once approved. On an international departure it opens from an hour before the flight until boarding. For an international arrival it runs from 30 minutes before the plane lands until an hour and a half after. And it is available only at times that do not interfere with the airport’s VIP room.

The page carries no date apart from a 2020 copyright line. An undated fee table can be years old, so treat these prices as the airport’s last published figures and confirm them on the same phone call that books the hall.

So treat the paid hall as a private room for a group on a departing or arriving flight, not as a lounge you can walk into. The page places it in the general waiting hall and does not say whether that is before or after security. Its departure hours run until boarding, which a room before security could not offer, so ask how you reach the gate from it on the same phone call that books it.

Busan airport lounge in the domestic terminal

Priority Pass lists no lounge in Gimhae’s domestic terminal. All four of its Gimhae lounges are in the international terminal, so a pass does nothing on a flight from Busan to Jeju or Gimpo.

The airport’s paid hall is the one domestic option on the pages read here, at 55,000 won for two hours, booked by phone the day before. Whether Korean Air or Asiana runs an airline lounge in Gimhae’s domestic terminal was not confirmed: neither airline’s lounge pages returned text. If you hold a business class or elite ticket on a domestic flight, ask at the check-in counter.

What is not checked here

The lounge locations, hours and stay limits come from Priority Pass’s Korean pages, the paid hall from the Korea Airports Corporation’s Gimhae page, and the Air Busan lounge’s 2023 price from Metro Seoul, all read on 10 October 2026.

Three things are unconfirmed, and each changes the plan if it turns out otherwise. Korean Air’s own hours at Gimhae were not read, so the 07:00 to 13:00 window is Priority Pass’s. Neither Sky Hub’s walk-in price was found on an operator’s page; the booking site that sells passes refused the request. And Asiana’s lounge lookup timed out, so whether Asiana runs a lounge at Gimhae, or sends its passengers to another one, is not covered here.

If a lounge opens, closes or changes its hours, or you have used one of these recently, tell me and this page will say so with a date. Which cities Gimhae flies to, and when those flights land and leave, is on the Busan airport international flights page. For the same question at Gimpo, see the Gimpo airport lounge page. Cashing out a transport card before you fly from Busan is on the T-money refund at Busan and Gimhae page.