passengers connecting between the northeast corridor and airtrain newark must pass through faregates and pay a fee. this fee is usually included in the ticket price and encoded on magnetic stripes of njt tickets with the station as the origin or destination (denoted with **ewr**). monthly pass holders who do not have newark airport as the origin or destination for their pass need to pay the fee, which is waived for children 11 and under. there is a staffed amtrak ticket counter between airtrain and the nec platforms. although there are nj transit staff on site, passengers are required to use the ticket vending machines (tvms) on either side of the faregates for njt service.