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

Referred to as Delta One, the 39,000-square-foot lounge incorporates a 140-seat bar and restaurant and wellness middle full with serenity rooms and full-body therapeutic massage chairs. Different facilities embody valet companies, 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 Artwork Deco-inspired lighting, fluted glass and a gold leaf ceiling and chandeliers are a nod to Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, the corporate mentioned in a press release. 

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

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

Bastian famous that Delta’s Sky Membership house at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport has lengthy been thought to be the very best commonplace for luxurious lounge seating earlier than a flight, however he mentioned the Delta One at JFK raises the bar.

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

A Delta Sky Membership membership or qualifying bank cards won’t grant somebody entry to Delta One, the airline mentioned. The house 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 Information that the corporate will open the same Delta One in Los Angeles this fall subsequent to the present Delta Sky Membership house and one other at Boston’s Logan Airport. Seattle may 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, practically a 7% enhance in comparison with final yr, in keeping with journey membership AAA. The value of home flights are projected to be 2% cheaper this vacation in comparison with final yr, AAA mentioned. 

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

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