Lufthansa Senator Lounge / Business Lounge
Hours
12:00 PM - 1:00 AM
Finding it
Lufthansa Senator Lounge / Business Lounge is in Departures in Terminal 1 at John F. Kennedy International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.
- Level
- 3
Terminal 1 has 30 places to eat and 34 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 5am.
Hours against the security queue
Lufthansa Senator Lounge / Business Lounge opens at 12pm and closes at 1am. FlyIndex's wait-time data puts the typical JFK checkpoint queue at 24 minutes around 12pm.
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
This lounge doesn't open until noon, well past the early departure banks most of Terminal 1's other lounges and shops serve, and it runs until 1:00 AM, the latest posted close of anything nearby. That combination points it at Lufthansa's evening long-haul departures rather than a morning connection. Reading space and Wi-Fi sit alongside the seating, the same pairing found at the Chase and Delta lounges across the airport in Terminal 4. Brookstone, Bally and the Air France lounge occupy nearby gates in this same departures area but keep earlier hours.
What to expect
- Reading
- Lounge
- Wi-Fi
Other options in Terminal 1
All past the same checkpoint, so you can reach them without clearing security again.
Sources
- Lufthansa Senator Lounge / Business Lounge, Terminal 1 - John F. Kennedy International Airport — John F. Kennedy International Airport, checked 2026-09-10
- Lounges & Rest - JFK Airport — JFK Airport, checked 2026-09-10
Official Travel Resources
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