American Express Centurion Lounge
Hours
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Finding it
American Express Centurion Lounge is in Level 4 in Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.
- 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
American Express Centurion Lounge opens at 8am and closes at 6pm. FlyIndex's wait-time data puts the typical JFK checkpoint queue at 33 minutes around 8am.
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
The Centurion Lounge sits on Level 4, with no gate number attached to its listing, and keeps a narrower window than its neighbors: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., against the Chase Sapphire Lounge's 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. and the Delta One Lounge's 4:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Anyone flying out before 8 or arriving back after 6 will find those two lounges are the ones still open, not this one. It's the only Amex Centurion Lounge at JFK, with no second location in the terminal to compare against.
What to expect
- Lounge
Other options in Terminal 4
All past the same checkpoint, so you can reach them without clearing security again.
Sources
- American Express Centurion Lounge, Terminal 4 - John F. Kennedy International Airport — John F. Kennedy International Airport, checked 2026-09-10
Official Travel Resources
1 verified external links from airport operators and U.S. agencies.