Originally Posted by
IflyfromABE
mainline is the key word here, which usually means planes from outside the northeast (excluding large cities), because those are usually UAX arriving in terminal A. Thus the problem. I will take any hike in Newark over the terminal A to terminal C/D dash (either wait 20 minutes for the people mover or hike half an hour for a couple miles and the equivalent of 3-4 stories to get to the train.)
Agree, and would just add that it is worse to go from mainline to UAX, as you then get to wait around in the IAD version of purgatory...the A gates.
Oh...and I do not like EWR much better...give me the connection in ORD.
And much more on topic: I always hated waiting for the ground staff when just short of the gate. I always figured the wing walkers were pretty pointless. Don't know what to think now...they had the wind walkers and still managed to clip the wings.