As far as I have read (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark_Liberty_International_Airport#Airport_infor mation), most flights arrive on 04R/22L. Do you have a recommendation, whether the right or the left site of the aircraft (arriving from Europe) is better to get some nice views about NY/Manhattan?

And on the way back to Europe?

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If you land on 4R (or 4L) you want to be on the right side of the aircraft; if you land on 22R (or 22L), you want to be on the left side. Wind conditions will likely determine whether you land to the northeast (4R or 4L) or to the southwest (22L or 22R). Perhaps another FT'er can say whether there is a default runway at EWR for calm-wind landings.

Most departing traffic use Runway 4L/22R, while most arriving traffic use 04R/22L, and 11/29 is used more often when the crosswinds on the two main runways is strong enough.

Info found here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark_Liberty_International_Airport

I seem to see more planes arriving at EWR from the north, heading south. With this scientific anaylsis ;),
I'd suggest sitting on the left.

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Thanks all!

So I will go for the left side :)

Old People Express arrival into EWR announcement.

"Those of you on the left side of the plane if you look to your left you can see the Manhattan skyline. For those of you on the right side of the plane if you look to your left you can see people looking out the window. If you have to look to the right....that's Newark." :)

Sit on the left. If you land to the south you'll see NYC. If you land to the north you won't see anything regardless of which side of the plane you're on.

4R/22L is the shorter of the parallel runways 4/22, so the longer ones are used for take-off and the shorter for landings. 4R starts further up the field than 4L, and every time I land that way I think that we're coming in long until I remember that it is the shorter runway since we pass about 1000' of 4L before touching down.

The short 11/29 is used almost exclusively by ERJs and then only with bad crosswinds. Every now and then a bigger plane lands there, but those are rare. A CO mainline (a 757, I think) actually landed on the taxiway next to 11/29 a while ago, but that's a whole different story.

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Just want to give a short feedback:

Everything as predicted by the experts here. We had nice views on both flights!

Thanks!