JFK must have a dozen GE kiosks@T4. Too bad it takes 10 mins to walk [briskly] to use one for 2 minutes. Then I had another hike to my CVG gate. PreCheck, of course was quite busy but we had 2 lanes. Such a long way to the gate only to see our seats assigned in biz/first (another 2 dozen empty seats! on RJ) They even put OAL pilots up front w/space to spare. We barely made that flight and were very thankful. Yep, good day for nonrev.