Review: Air France Lounge New York JFK

Neat! I recently booked a Virgin Atlantic flight JFK-LHR. I nearly took up the JFK-AMS availability because Delta's site doesn't refresh inventory well. Thus I was curious about this lounge and KLM's 747. Glad I chose the Virgin Atlantic JFK-LHR route because this post showed it was quite minimal!

I'm fairly sure that's the normal food selection for that lounge. Maybe some extra hand fruit.

I was just in this lounge back in August for an Air France redeye flight.

One of the things is they actually serve dinner (table service!) in the lounge for the night service, with a 3 course meal that's pretty good (exact same catering as the flight.) So the food options are actually a lot more robust if you're flying AF.

They also had complimentary Clarins Spa treatments (all other AF lounges don't seem to have enough slots for the crowd, so it was nice.)

Haha "three layovers of clothing..."

Wow, crazy to see that lounge totally empty. I fly pretty frequently between NYC and Paris and it's packed in the evenings; sometimes it can be hard to find a seat. Food is pretty similar to what you showed. It's an ok lounge, but far from my favorite.

I was interested to see the photo of the upgrade price guide - along with the note that if you pay to upgrade to a higher cabin your meal will remain the same as your original ticketed cabin.

Reminds me the lounge at CDG 2E Hall M. Food selection is limited except for the catered designated times. The lounges don't have temperature controlled holds. Sometimes food just sits for hours in a stock room.

You missed the best part of the lounge, the Clarins Spa which offers free 20-minute facials.:)
See 2nd photo: https://millionmilesecrets.com/2016/10/09/success-4-african-islands-and-6000-saved-with-miles-points/ I think you need another visit. 🙂

Only you can make this lounge look nice with your pictures considering I used to work for the contracting company for China Eastern which also services Azerbaijan. Those supposed "EVA Air" passengers were probably from China Eastern with a 3:25 or 4:25 pm flight depending on daylight savings time or Air China which has a 2 or 3 pm flight going at Terminal 1 and EVA Air does not have any. During the middle of the day is when it gets busy and loud and the lounge would be just a mess with China Eastern, Skyteam Elites, Air France passengers being able to use the lounge besides Priority Pass members. Unless you have a very early or late night flight, I'd recommend avoiding flights from Terminal 1 at JFK.

Much nicer than the Air France lounge in Houston, though that's much smaller so I suppose it's to be expected.

It's been a while since I've been to Azerbaijan, but last time I was there Americans could get a visa on arrival at Baku airport, so they didn't check visas beforehand. Don't know if that's still the case. Pretty neat that the flight has a visa exemption though!

This lounge is nearly always packed during normal AF operating hours.

It is reasonably nice, however.

Was there in August on a JAL flight. I thought the up stairs was the first class lounge?

I second @Gordon—those were probably China Eastern passengers. I took the EVA Air flight from Terminal 1 a couple weeks ago, and EVA passengers use the Alitalia lounge now (formerly they used Air France).

Just to confirm what a few other people have said: that's the normal day time food for that lounge and that there is a more premium service in the PM when the lounge is only open to SkyTeam.

The livery reminds me of Trump Force One.

The food options still beat most domestic lounges hands-down.

Lucky, when you review these lounges, would you consider adding comments about the availability of power for recharging devices? Some lounges have power at almost every seat and others are pretty slim pickin's. Thanks for your consideration.

This review would be VERY different with the Lounge even half full...... I've found it noisy, and refreshments rarely restocked

The hours of exclusion for Priority Pass members are now 1:30p to 11p. Very disappointed to find that out today. Makes it pretty useless

Arrived at 5:30am for 8:20 RAM JFK-Casablanca flight-- business class-- check-in agent informed me RAM no longer offers lounge access. Went to Air France lounge-- it was closed from time I arrived--around 6am to 7:45am when I boarded. Both Priority Pass website and Air France website still report it opens at 6am. Best to check-- but looks like move to One World means they did not renew their contract for the few months in 2020. Overall, RAM experience was good--given that it cost one-third the price of the competing business class flights. But in Casablanca, the lounge agent informed me the gate changed from F7 to A7-- and I'd better run because the flight was boarding. I arrived at A7--12 minutes later-- and the agent their was mystified-- now 25 minutes before departure. She advised me to "run back"-- and got annoyed when I complained about the misinformation. There is a reason RAM is a third the price of the competition. Good luck One World.