Jimmy John's
Hours
10:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Finding it
Jimmy John's is in Baggage Claim in Terminal 8 at John F. Kennedy International Airport. It sits landside, so you can reach it without a boarding pass — and you still have to clear security afterwards.
- Level
- 1
Terminal 8 has 49 places to eat and 50 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 12am.
Hours against the security queue
Jimmy John's opens at 10am and closes at 10pm. FlyIndex's wait-time data puts the typical JFK checkpoint queue at 23 minutes around 10am.
Across the week, JFK security runs longest around 8am at a median of 33 minutes, and lightest around 2am at 10 minutes. The queue is typically building before this location opens.
Queue figures are medians from FlyIndex's JFK wait-time record, not a live reading.
About this location
Set at baggage claim on level 1, this sandwich counter is the landside stop, not one you'd pass on the way to a gate. A 10:00 AM open means it's no use for an early landing before that hour, and a 10:00 PM close rules it out for a late one too — a twelve-hour window bracketing the middle of the day rather than the airport's full arrivals schedule. It's the only Jimmy John's JFK has, so there's no airside counterpart to compare its hours or its baggage-level spot against.
What to expect
- sandwich
Other options in Terminal 8
All landside, so you can reach any of these before security.
Sources
- Terminal 8 - JFK Airport — JFK Airport (PANYNJ), checked 2026-09-04
- Dine - JFK Airport — John F. Kennedy International Airport, checked 2026-09-08
- Jimmy John's, Terminal 8 - JFK Airport — The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, checked 2026-09-10
Official Travel Resources
1 verified external links from airport operators and U.S. agencies.