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Air India Maharaja Lounge

Terminal 4•Gate A5•Post-Security
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Hours

7:00 AM - 10:00 PM

A quiet escape for eligible passengers. Enjoy a buffet featuring authentic Indian cuisine, a self-service bar, and a comfortable atmosphere to relax before your flight.

Finding it

Air India Maharaja Lounge is in Gate A5 in Terminal 4 near Gate A5 at John F. Kennedy International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.

Nearest gates
Gate A5
Level
4

Terminal 4 has 47 places to eat and 39 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 12am.

Hours against the security queue

Air India Maharaja Lounge opens at 7am and closes at 10pm. FlyIndex's wait-time data puts the typical JFK checkpoint queue at 30 minutes around 7am.

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

Gate A5 hosts three airline lounges side by side, and this one is the earliest of the three to close. Air India's space opens at 7:00 AM, half an hour ahead of the Emirates lounge next door, but shuts at 10:00 PM while Emirates runs until 11:15 PM and Virgin Atlantic's Clubhouse stays open until 11:30 PM. Hudson, the nearest non-lounge stop, sits one gate over at A4. Terminal 4 carries no second Air India lounge, so this is the airline's only lounge footprint at JFK.

What to expect

  • Reading
  • Lounge
  • Wi-Fi

Other options in Terminal 4

All past the same checkpoint, so you can reach them without clearing security again.

Sources

Official Travel Resources

1 verified external links from airport operators and U.S. agencies.

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