Thirsty vacationers can now take pleasure in the brand new bar inside British Airways and American Airlines’ Greenwich Lounge at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). The shiny, new cocktail hang-out follows the opening of the Brooklyn Brewery Pub contained in the comparatively new JFK Terminal 8 lounge (beforehand the Flagship Lounge).
The Bridge Bar has solely partnered with actor Ryan Reynolds’ aptly named Aviation American Gin. It affords a slew of particular cocktails and mocktails, all backed by Betty Buzz — a variety of nonalcoholic glowing mixers launched by actress Blake Lively.
The bar has been crafted to move clients to a golden age of air journey and definitely suggestions its hat (a Sinatra-approved fedora, little doubt) to the heady days of the ’60s when air journey was as unique because it will get.
Calum Laming, British Airways’ chief buyer officer, believes the brand new addition couldn’t be higher suited to the lounge.
“We are excited to unveil a new experience in the Greenwich Lounge,” Laming said. “With Betty Buzz and Aviation American Gin, we have created the perfect space for customers to relax pre-flight, offering a varied and delicious cocktail selection and flavors to suit every taste.”
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If you’d moderately seize a beer whereas ready in your airplane, you do not have to look far. Greenwich — which makes up a holy trinity of Terminal 8 lounges for British Airways and American Airlines, alongside Soho and Chelsea — can be residence to a tasting room run by native ale purveyors Brooklyn Brewery.
In this self-styled faucet room pictured above you’ll be able to look out over the tarmac when you sup a brewski and wait on your boarding time, clients may select from a unusual pairing menu that features Beer Braised Bratwurst, French Onion Grilled Cheese, and a Beer Float dessert.
Frequent flyers will recall that this house was previously often called the Flagship First eating facility, however that unique lounge-within-a-lounge closed final yr when British Airways colocated into American’s JFK Terminal 8 and opened the Chelsea lounge just some steps away.”
Related: How are you able to entry British Airways lounges?
The Bridge Bar and the Tasting Room are top-tier additions catering to an already stellar house. To achieve entry to the Greenwich Lounge, you will want to be:
- A British Airways Club World passenger.
- A Oneworld Sapphire member from a non-U.S. program taking any same-day Oneworld flight.
- An American Flagship Business flyer on any route (together with transcontinental ones).
- American AAdvantage Platinum (and better) elite members when flying in any class of service on Flagship routes, together with from the U.S. to: Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, New Zealand and South America (excluding Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela).
Now just one query stays: Will you go for beer or cocktails? We suppose you’ll be able to cross that bridge once you get to it.
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