Not everybody pays cash for airline tickets. ;)

I fly weekly. There's a big difference in paying $4.30 (62 Bus + PATH) or $15 (NJT + MTA) compared to car service (~$50) if doing this more than a couple times a year.

All the more cash left to get to the airport without wasting your time!

Sounds like that’s your choice?

Coming from EWR during off-peak hours, there is sometimes such a long gap in NJT service that whether you take the 62 bus or the Airtrain has no impact on what NJT train you end up on. So might as well save a few dollars.

Sometimes I would stay airside at EWR (assuming domestic or preclearance flight) and get some work done, and to time NJT via Airtrain (assuming the latter works...lol), or 62 bus. Someone has to update those flight logs and annual progress :p

Landside is okay but not as much seating as airside, but sometimes no choice coming off of an INTL.

Playing with fire! Well if you mis-time it by a few mins, I guess you benefit from NJT that likes to run 2 trains within 5-10 minutes then nothing for 50mins.

Always up for a challenge...lol

Usually 10 minutes from Terminal C station should be sufficient time to get over to rail station. Add a few more minutes from B station, and I don't even attempt from A...just catch the 62 bus.

Usually I try to catch first one in a block of NJT, so the ones immediately following can be contingency.

I have made it real close a few times, so close NJT and Airtrain were parallel, both heading into respective stations at nearly the same time. Luckily, I am usually standing by the front car of the Airtrain, and just have my backpack as luggage.

Always up for a challenge...lol

Sounds like that’s your choice?

Why is that a question? Of course it's my choice, and I have never failed.

I'm not sure the best place to put this, so I'll add it in this thread as 62 bus enthusiasts might appreciate it - I stumbled upon the NJT 107 bus on my most recent EWR arrival and it worked well to get to Manhattan. It's a bus that leaves from the "EWR North Area Transit Center" and very direct to the Port Authority. The current fare is $6.90.

How to get to the "EWR North Area Transit Center" - the GO28 bus services it, or you can also take a free Parking P6 shuttle, and walk ~5mins from inside the parking lot to the the bus stop. I just missed a GO28 and then gambled on a P6 bus that magically appeared which worked out. Note: calling this a "transit center" is a misnomer, it's a basic shelter bus stop around major highway interchanges where a random assortment of buses stop.

I arrived at EWR a few mins before 4PM on a weekday, and there are 6(!) 107 buses between 4-5PM weekdays. It's generally infrequent though, so the stars aligned for me.

107 timetable: https://content.njtransit.com/sites/...ules/T0107.pdf
An old FT thread on the 107, last post from 2010: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/new-...l#post12769134

It really is amazing how annoying it is to get between EWR and Manhattan, yet there are so many different ways to travel between them

According to the timetable, Bus 107 actually stops right at Terminals A and C at some hours (mostly late at night) but in the footnotes it says that they don't allow passengers to board the NYC-bound 107 or get off the southbound 107 at the terminals.

I wonder if the drivers actually enforce those rules. I assume it has something to do with the Port Authority protecting their revenue from NYC-EWR travel (they get a lot of revenue from the AirTrain, and probably get paid some concession fees by CoachUSA for the Newark Airport Express Bus).

That's an interesting catch. Although if enforced, what's stopping someone alighting & reboarding at EWR North (away from the terminals), if willing to pay an extra $1.80 fare from the terminals to/from EWR North?
Coach USA could have in their contract to be the exclusive bus operator to/from EWR and the Port Authority (maybe even all of Manhattan, but that sounds extreme). That could explain why there has not been a competing bus operator, at least as far as I can remember

The footnote suggests that they don't allow anyone to board the northbound bus at the terminal, even if they plan to get off before NYC.

I'm sure they have some kind of exclusivity, yes, and that's probably the reason for the rule. Also, the NJT bus drivers probably don't really care. But I guess it would suck to get turned away from boarding the bus at midnight.