According to the intertubes, your flight to EWR departed 40 minutes late, and your flight from EWR is currently showing a departure delay of 45 minutes. Therefore, if you don't get to Hong Kong it will be your own damned fault.
I fly extensively in Continental (currently Gold, which is the 2nd tier of their elite levels)
during bad weather (or even good) a 2 hr layover in EWR is 'tight' at best
its during these situations that being elite certainly pay off (I've experienced a few EWR meltdowns) but in your case there is not much to do anyway because there is only one HKG flight/day
I flew EWR-HKG during Feb 2008 and it was awesome (well 'USA kind of awesome' not cathay or singapore airlines etc kind of awesome it was a business first upgrade with miles)
if you manage to fly out today you will be in aircraft 2, for tomorrow it would be aircraft 1, luckily for you, both these planes have audio-video on demand (not all of the 777 do, yet)
For the record, in the corner by the rum cake store, there unsecured wireless provided by a Linksys router at an unknown location (my guess is underneath, on the first floor). You do have to be wiley enough to manually set your IP address, subnet mask, gateway address, and DNS Server to actually get internet from it, though. The signal strength is mediocre, but it was plenty fast enough to check e-mail and browse the web.
I had similar experience in/around the poker room at PCA. Dealers were offering me money to check their e-mail when they found out I had managed to get on the wireless there.
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during bad weather (or even good) a 2 hr layover in EWR is 'tight' at best
its during these situations that being elite certainly pay off (I've experienced a few EWR meltdowns) but in your case there is not much to do anyway because there is only one HKG flight/day
I flew EWR-HKG during Feb 2008 and it was awesome (well 'USA kind of awesome' not cathay or singapore airlines etc kind of awesome it was a business first upgrade with miles)
if you manage to fly out today you will be in aircraft 2, for tomorrow it would be aircraft 1, luckily for you, both these planes have audio-video on demand (not all of the 777 do, yet)
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I, of course, read this as boring ass-lifting exercises which probably isn't far off either.
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I had similar experience in/around the poker room at PCA. Dealers were offering me money to check their e-mail when they found out I had managed to get on the wireless there.
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