There is no lounge at SNN, just a small roped off reserved seating area near the gate. Tbh once you have done the formalities (security and immigration) you will probably only be sat there for 5-10 minutes before you re-board.

i don’t find GE much quicker at SNN as usually there are no queues anyway. Still nice to use tho

at JFK when you arrive I think only the GC would be open. Not sure whether you want to bother since you would presumably have access to the AA flagship lounge in T8.

There also a small selection of SSSS'd pax which may slow some down.

When I went through there was another 2 transatlantic flights boarding and a 747 charter with US troops returning for deployment, Thsnkfully the airport let passengers go through before the troops as they were removing belts and boots etc. In preclearance the paperwork from LCY hadn’t been done prop rly so all passengers with hold luggage had to have a secondary inspection, there was a separate GE kiosk and there were 3 people that used it but the CBP Officer manning the J desk called them in between J passengers. We were ushered to the gate immediately and had to wait a few mins for the cabin crew who were the last to go through

Has LCY abandoned its temporary Gate 24 lounge? which was like a pop up galleries lounge for the JFK flight

yes it’s gone for well over a year now. Instead you now go to the pilots restaurant, show your bp, and you get a certian amount of free items from the menu.

Yes, it closed about 18 months ago.

i think you are remembering the old layout when security was in the immigration hall itself. It’s changed now and you get routed in to the main security area so it’s business as normal - electronics and liquids out.

Just before security there is a manual BP check and last time I used BA 1some pax were being subjected to secondary security as their names were on a list but the BPs weren’t marked as SSSS as a fellow passenger asked me when we reborded why I didn’t get the in-depth check and she did so I explained about SSSS.

the duty free selection is now much larger and improved and is now between security and CBP though there is still a very small shop near the gate area.

ive never had a problem with security at SNN its always been very quick. They tend not to let people through pre clearance security until relatively close to departure time as there really aren’t a lot of facilities in the gate area used by US flights so they keep them in the main, general departure lounge until they call the flights. Whereas BA 1 pax are basically walked straight to it,