Hi all, wasn’t sure which forum to put this in but here goes.
I have a Norse Air flight arriving into JFK at 10 pm, too late to catch a connecting flight to my home state. No worries, just stay at an airport hotel…except the cheapest hotel rated 8 or higher on booking .com is almost $400 a night! I have stayed in nyc before like this and it’s always been closer to $240, otherwise I might have done this differently.
We therefore were thinking about catching an early flight out the next day and just staying at the airport overnight. That said, for safety reasons I would prefer to stay behind security.
We will need to claim baggage immediately after our flight in from Europe, then take them to probably another terminal (and thus outside security, because jfk is special) to go through security again, catch our onward flight and hang out until said flight.
So. My question is: if I have, say, a 6 am flight on delta and boarding passes, would security let us through around 11:30 or 12 the night before? Or would we be stuck in the pre security area until later in the morning??