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VIP ONE Lounge & Checkpoint

Terminal 1•Check-In•Pre-Security

Hours

8:00 AM - 12:00 AM

Pre-Security lounge for those wishing to relax before proceeding through security. Lounge offers expedited processing through the TSA lines upon passenger readiness to proceed to the departure gate area.

Finding it

VIP ONE Lounge & Checkpoint is in Check-In in Terminal 1 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
3

Terminal 1 has 30 places to eat and 34 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 5am.

Hours against the security queue

VIP ONE Lounge & Checkpoint opens at 8am and closes at 12am. 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

VIP ONE Lounge & Checkpoint operates from 8:00 AM to midnight on level 3 of Terminal 1, pairing a security checkpoint with lounge access in one stop rather than sending travelers through a separate line elsewhere in the terminal. That sixteen-hour window covers Terminal 1's daytime departure banks but not its earliest or latest flights. It sits on the same level as Tory Burch, Bally and Brookstone, though none of that retail run doubles as a checkpoint. Anyone landing on a red-eye before 8 AM will find this entrance point still shut.

Other options in Terminal 1

All landside, so you can reach any of these before security.

Sources

Official Travel Resources

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