The first will open in Copenhagen and will be the largest shared-use lounge in the Schengen area. But the project is already looking beyond Denmark: Revolut wants to build a network of premium spaces in the main European hubs in the coming years, transforming one of the digital services most used by travelers into a physical experience.
For years, Revolut has worked to make travel an increasingly digital affair: currency exchange, payments abroad, insurance, reservations and benefits linked to the different app plans. Now the British fintech is taking the opposite path and deciding to physically enter airports. In fact, the first one will open at Copenhagen airport in 2027 Revolut Loungethe starting point of a much larger project that should bring the brand to the main European hubs in the following years.
The announcement marks an interesting step in the strategy of the company, which has over 75 million customers worldwide and which seems to want to progressively overcome the boundaries of an exclusively financial platform to build around its ecosystem a series of experiences that are also recognizable in the real world. It is not, therefore, simply a matter of adding another lounge to the many already present in international airports, but of transforming one of Revolut’s main use cases, travel, into a new area of expansion for the brand.
The first Revolut Lounge will be born in Copenhagen
The first agreement was signed with Copenhagen Airport (CPH)chosen by the company as a laboratory to define the concept that will then be used in future international openings. The lounge will become the new flagship space at the Danish airport and, according to what has been announced, will also be the largest shared lounge in the Schengen area.
The choice of Copenhagen is not random. On the one hand there is the reference to Scandinavian design, an element that Revolut evidently wants to integrate into the architectural and visual identity of the project; on the other hand there is the growing weight of the Nordic countries within the company’s commercial strategy.
Revolut already has more than two million customers in the region and aims to exceed three million by the end of 2026. In Denmark alone it expects to reach around half a million users ahead of the lounge opening.
“Over 75 million customers trust Revolut to improve every part of their financial lives, and travel is central to this experience,” he explained Hadi Nasrallah, Director – Product GP & New Bets at Revolut. With the Lounge project, he added, the company wants to deepen its physical presence and “establish a new standard for hospitality in airports across Europe”.
And it is precisely this last step that clarifies the scope of the operation: Copenhagen does not represent an isolated experiment, but the first piece of a network that Revolut intends to develop in its priority markets, with the declared ambition of arriving, in the long term, to build one of the largest lounge networks on a global scale.
From fintech to lifestyle ecosystem
The Revolut Lounge comes as the company is experimenting with other forms of physical presence. In recent months, projects for the first have also been announced Revolut Store in Barcelonadesigned to bring the brand into a retail context.
Stores and lounges respond to the same logic: making a brand born and raised entirely on the smartphone tangible.
While the Barcelona store will serve to bring Revolut closer to customers in everyday life, the lounges instead focus on a territory that is particularly consistent with the company’s history. Revolut has also established itself thanks to the ease with which it allows you to use money and financial services across borders and travel remains one of the moments in which the advantages linked to its premium plans are most perceptible.
A proprietary lounge therefore allows the company to do something different than simply access facilities managed by third parties: transform time spent at the airport into an experience directly associated with the Revolut brand.
It is a strategy already explored by some large international financial operators, especially in the premium card segment, but which in the case of Revolut takes on a particular meaning precisely because it comes from a company born as a fintech and built almost entirely around the idea of eliminating branches, branches and traditional banking infrastructures.
The project together with Plaza Premium Group
To create the first lounge, Revolut will work with Plaza Premium Group (PPG)which will be the operational and investment partner for the Copenhagen opening.
PPG is one of the world’s largest operators in the airport lounge sector and its Plaza Premium Lounge brand has received the Skytrax recognition of World’s Best Independent Airport Lounge for ten consecutive years, from 2016 to 2025.
For Bora Isbulan, Deputy CEO of Plaza Premium Groupthe collaboration represents the possibility of developing «a new benchmark for premium travel hospitality», while making the lounge experience more accessible within major international hubs.
Copenhagen airport also underlines its desire to use the new space to strengthen its offer dedicated to passengers. “We share a common ambition: to put passengers first and continually improve the airport experience,” he said Peter Krogsgaard, Chief Commercial Officer of Copenhagen Airport.
The real target is European airports
For the moment, Revolut has not communicated which airports will follow Copenhagen and therefore there is not yet an official map of future openings. The indication, however, is clear: the project will be extended to main international hubs in the markets considered strategic by the company starting from 2027 and in subsequent years.
And this is perhaps the most interesting aspect of the announcement. The competition between fintechs is no longer played only on the number of functions present in an app, on the commissions or on the services linked to a card. To retain customers with greater spending power, financial platforms are progressively transforming their premium subscriptions into service ecosystems, in which travel, insurance, hospitality and experiences become part of the same product.
With Revolut Lounge, this transformation literally becomes visible. After putting the bank inside a smartphone, Revolut is now trying to take its smartphone off the screen and into one of the most symbolic spaces of global mobility: the airport.
