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Old Jul 18, 2015 | 2:36 pm
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Originally Posted by SJC AA
I'm super confused. Why wouldn't OP just put $20 of value on a regular MetroCard and not have to deal with buying a second card on the way back to JFK? That would cost only $19.05.

(Buy a MetroCard for $18.05 from the machine. With the 11% bonus the value will end up being $20.03. There is a $1 fee, so it ends up costing $19.05.)

This seems like the obvious way to go.
Two reasons:

1) The OP is not sure that he will be taking the AirTrain back to JFK; and

2) He wants to avoid the $1 new-card fee.
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