Delta Air Lines opens spacious new lounge at JFK airport. See what’s inside.

Delta Air Lines this week opened its largest ever airport lounge for its premium passengers at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, and the corporate plans to open comparable areas in main cities throughout the U.S.

Called Delta One, the 39,000-square-foot lounge contains a 140-seat bar and restaurant and wellness middle full with serenity rooms and full-body therapeutic massage chairs. Other facilities embrace valet providers, a juice bar, eight bathe suites for bathing, a bakery and meals market part for vacationers who wish to seize snacks on the go. The bar’s Art Deco-inspired lighting, fluted glass and a gold leaf ceiling and chandeliers are a nod to Radio City Music Hall, the corporate stated in a press release. 

The area “has a glamorous really feel to it,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian instructed CBS News. 

Delta One is completely different from Delta’s present Sky Club lounge areas, in that it’s bigger and has extra facilities. Passengers can get entry to the area in the event that they pay an annual membership to the Sky Club or are holders of sure bank cards. In many places, Delta Sky Club lounges additionally characteristic a bar, wi-fi web, showers and extra.

Bastian famous that Delta’s Sky Club area at Los Angeles International Airport has lengthy been considered the very best normal for luxurious lounge seating earlier than a flight, however he stated the Delta One at JFK raises the bar.

“LA is the usual and this [Delta One] is the brand new normal,” Bastian stated. 

A Delta Sky Club membership or qualifying bank cards is not going to grant somebody entry to Delta One, the airline stated. The area is unique for folks touring internationally or folks boarding a Delta transcontinental flight. The lounge, which additionally options beverage cart service, is positioned between Concourses A and B in Terminal 4.

Bastian instructed CBS News that the corporate will open the same Delta One in Los Angeles this fall subsequent to the present Delta Sky Club area and one other at Boston’s Logan Airport. Seattle can even see a Delta One lounge within the close to future, he added. 

Delta’s new lounge opens simply because the nation enters peak vacation touring season. About 5.7 million persons are anticipated to fly through the first week of July, almost a 7% improve in comparison with final yr, according to journey membership AAA. The worth of home flights are projected to be 2% cheaper this vacation in comparison with final yr, AAA stated. 

The Federal Aviation Administration said June 27 is predicted to be the busiest day in air journey this yr with 53,677 flights scheduled. 

Delta stated it plans to fly 5.8 million passengers between June 28 and July 7.