What to Know About Capital One’s Lounge at JFK, a Play For Premium Travelers
Inside the new retreat, which has Murray's Cheese, Death & Co cocktails, and midnight snacks for the stranded.
The bar in the new Capital One Lounge at JFK.
Source: Capital OneOne Tuesday night at JFK, as the sun was setting over a clutch of airplanes on the tarmac outside Terminal 4, Leon Thomas adjusted his guitar and stepped up to a microphone. Thomas is a singer songwriter from Brooklyn who blends hip-hop with R&B, and whose single, Mutt, has been making the rounds on TikTok (and is a No. 1 on the R&B chart). He looked like he wasn’t sure what he was doing in this setting. “This is the first time I’ve played an airport,” he said with a laugh.
Thomas was there to inaugurate Capital One’s sleek new flagship lounge, which will be the company’s first at a New York City airport when it opens to the public on June 19. Capital One is not quite as new to the airport lounge scene as Thomas is, but in recent years the company has made a significant effort at expansion.