Chase is opening an fascinating new lounge at JFK — this is what we all know
Chase’s airport lounge community is increasing with the addition of an outpost in one of many nation’s busiest airports.
The issuer shared on Tuesday that it will open a “new” lounge in New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK).
The Chase Sapphire Lounge by The Membership in JFK will open on Tuesday, Jan. 23, and it will be positioned in Terminal 4, dwelling to Delta and quite a lot of different worldwide carriers, resembling Aeromexico and Singapore Airways.
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In contrast to the three different Sapphire Lounges (Hong Kong, Boston and LaGuardia) that had been specifically constructed by Chase, the one in JFK can be totally different.
That is as a result of Chase is teaming up with Etihad Airways to collectively function this lounge. It wasn’t instantly clear how the association would work, however Chase’s JFK location will occupy the house of the previous Etihad Airways lounge at JFK. (Etihad’s lounge has been closed because the pandemic, so this may mark the outpost’s first reopening since then.)
It is going to be positioned post-security within the mezzanine degree above Gate A2 and adjoining to the two-story Amex Centurion Lounge.
No additional particulars had been shared concerning the upcoming JFK location, however TPG can be there with first-look protection when the lounge opens.
Lately, Chase has been aggressive about rapidly constructing out a community of lounges that cardholders will wish to go to. This contains opening three new outposts, debuting a terrace in Austin and sharing concrete plans to open 4 extra lounges throughout the nation in Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Diego and Philadelphia.
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Increasing the Sapphire Lounge community comes as Amex, Chase and Capital One are actually in a rat race for wooing premium cardholders with fancy airport lounges.
Amex is the incumbent out there with its expansive Centurion Lounge community that can proceed rising with the addition of outposts in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., later this yr.
In the meantime, Capital One debuted its first lounge in Dallas/Fort Price in 2021 and has since opened places in Denver and Washington Dulles. The issuer plans new “landings” — food-focused outposts — in New York and Washington, D.C., as effectively.
Because the competitors intensifies, it is going to be fascinating to see how the airport lounge wars evolve. The true winner in all of this, nevertheless, is the cardholder, who will get pleasure from newer, nicer and bigger areas than ever earlier than.
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