Security at EWR
Sep 7, 2018 | 4:23 pm
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Sep 8, 2018 | 2:47 am
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Either way, security at EWR will take a long time. Make sure to allow :45 minutes to get through the line in any case. The 40 year old terminal was not designed with multiple wide body departures in mind.
Sep 8, 2018 | 2:57 am
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Indeed... I seem to recall there are 3 security checkpoints. If one looked to busy, I'd wander down to the next which generally wasn't as bad.
Sep 8, 2018 | 9:59 pm
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i think thats only in the newer terminal C that was designed as a hub terminal from the beginning. In A and B (EK is in B, and usually use gate 62) you have to use the checkpoint for your individual rotunda.
Sep 9, 2018 | 2:50 am
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EWR has the longest security queues ive ever experienced (45 - 60 mins minimum). Even with fast track i found it fed into the top of the regular queue which was so backed up that it meant fat track was only marginally faster than the regular queue.
Sep 10, 2018 | 3:18 pm
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Curious: Does Terminal B have those annoying new bag scanner bins and lanes (like in Terminal C) that only let you put one bin at a time? I find them to be vastly inferior and keep slowing me down, because even suitcases have to go in a bin.
Sep 10, 2018 | 3:46 pm
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All DXB concourses (well at least A, B and C) have these scanners.
Sep 11, 2018 | 12:34 am
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This is unlike the Newark system, where you have to keep waiting until you get a bin, you can only take one bin at a time, and then you have to wait again to simply push your bin onto the conveyor belt.