My experience from a few days ago. I flew DEN-EWR-DXB on Thursday. I got to the airport plenty early and everything was ontime. We boarded our EWR flight and were told our flight was delayed 2 hours because of EWR traffic issues. Luckily, it was only an hour delay. We re-boarded and took off to EWR and arrived an hour or so late. We literally taxied for 20 minutes to our gate where we waited another 20 minutes for the ground crew to operate the jet bridge. Then it was a mad scramble to catch the shuttle from A to C. I did have about 10 minutes before my DXB flight was boarding so I stopped in the Polaris Lounge for a quick snack.