Emirates Lounge
Hours
7:30 AM - 11:15 PM
Finding it
Emirates 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
Emirates Lounge opens at 7:30am and closes at 11:15pm. 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
Three airline lounges sit at Gate A5, and Emirates opens last among them, at 7:30 AM — thirty minutes after the Air India Maharaja Lounge and two and a half hours after Virgin Atlantic's Clubhouse, which starts at 5:00 AM. It also closes second, at 11:15 PM, later than Air India's 10:00 PM shutter but fifteen minutes ahead of the Clubhouse's 11:30 PM. Hudson, the nearest non-lounge stop, is one gate back at A4. There is only the one Emirates Lounge in the terminal.
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
- Emirates 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.