Cytz_pilot From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 482 posts, RR: 1 Posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 11305 times:
This trip was a bit of a surprise to me. My wife Amy has decided to be a gestational surrogate, one who grows a baby for a couple who can't otherwise have children. We have been going through an agency in Los Angeles, and we knew that they would have to initially fly us down a couple of times from our home, about 35-40 minutes north of Fresno, California. However, the first time we were getting ready to go down, for our interviews & medical screenings, the cost of flights from Fresno was about $950 per person (you're in the air like 45 minutes for crying out loud!!!!). Because of this, they reimbursed us for car mileage and my extra time away from work. It was a pretty tough trip though, more driving than I care to do over a 2-day period.
I was expecting the same thing this time, on our trip down to meet the prospective parents. However, we got a nice surprise when they sent us an e-mail saying that flight details were coming. Woo hoo!!!
We were booked on a US Airways flight out of FAT to LAX, via LAS. I got a kick out of the fact that if we arrived at FAT 1 1/2 hours before departure, then getting there would take over 6 hours including the stopover. We can drive it in 4 hours! I will not complain though, as I'd not been in a plane since September of 2007. Rather funny that this surprise fell when it did, as I'm also preparing to fly back home to Toronto late this month. 2 return flights over 2 weeks! Awesome!!! I never had 2 trips within so little time even back when I had money. I was really looking forward to taking photos now that I've learned how to set my DSLR to take the best quality photos. So if I have too many photos, I apologize.
This flight would be the first time that my wife & I have flown without our son (since he was born, anyway). He's 2 1/2, and a real ball of energy - he's gotten pretty tough to take on a plane. So at the same time thinking about how we're going to miss leaving him for 36 hours (longer than we've ever been away from him), we also looked forward to air travel without the stress of getting a toddler & car seat through security, and trying to keep him occupied onboard the plane.
The day arrived, and we dropped our son off with his Grandma. We headed straight towards Fresno from Oakhurst (50 minutes north of Fresno on Highway 41), and stopped for a leisurely lunch since we were over 3 hours early.
There was no lineup at the US Airways counter, and were checked in with no problems. We had no bags to check, just my camera bag, Amy's shoulder bag and a small duffel bag with a change of clothes going as carry-on.
Going through security took about 15 minutes, as only one lane was open. We then strolled toward the main part of the terminal, past this SkyWest EMB-120 (taken through Venetian blinds).
Fresno is a fairly quiet airport, but very modern looking. We took a seat over by Gate 16, where I could sit and watch planes from and Amy could read.
Very little traffic came and went for an hour, but then it came fast and furious over the course of 30 minutes with the arrival of 2 US Marine Corps F/A-18D's, a United Express CR7 & EMB-120, and an ExpressJet EMB-145 (not all pictured).
Our flight then arrived on time, a former America West Airbus A319.
FAT – LAS
US Airways Flight 51, Sunday, May 18 2008
Airbus A319 – N820AW
Load Factor: 70%
We sat down in row 21, seats A & B. I grabbed the window, as I usually do. I'm not being unfair to Amy, as she usually prefers to sit and read on flights, and I enjoy snapping photos.
We departed the gate on time and pushed back. As we were taxiing to the runway, so were the 2 F/A-18D's. They beat us, so as we pulled up to the runway, I was able to get a good shot of the 2 fighters lined up and ready to go.
When they hit the throttle, man what a roar! I'd never been that close to fighter jets taking off.
Shortly after, we taxied into position and hit the gas ourselves.
I didn't notice until after I took this, but notice the Mooney(?) that had just departed from a parallel runway.
We climbed out over Fresno and turned northeast to cross the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
It was great to see snow-capped mountains after a week of temperatures between 90 & 100! Does it get any better than this?
We finished the mountain crossing and turned southeast over the high desert toward Las Vegas. The drink service began, and I had a Sprite.
It didn't take too long until we were descending into the Las Vegas area. Then, the bumps began. Everyone was holding on for dear life! Luckily the flight attendants were already fastened into their seats.
With my wife on the verge of yakking (even though there was no airsickness bag in her seat pocket), I of course kept snapping pictures as we flew downwind for Runway 25L. I thought to myself if any turn out, it will be a miracle. But I was able to keep the shutter speed high enough that they turned out fine!
The landing was surprisingly smooth considering the bumpy approach. We taxied to our gate and got off the plane to enjoy our 3.5 hour layover. Fun!
Amy spent the layover sitting at the gate reading, while I walked around and took pictures. I was glad that I was able to take so many good photos, even with tinted glass. A little bit of color balancing in Photoshop works wonders!
The US Airways Arizona aircraft came in while I was on the other side of the airport, and I was sad I couldn't get anything better than a far-off backlit picture. However, it was to be turned around quick, so Amy & I walked over there to wait for it to leave. The whole time I could swear that a gate agent was watching me from the other side of the terminal...maybe she thought it was suspicious having a guy with a camera sitting looking out the window? Well, whatever...nothing happened anyway. Got the shots!
After that, we walked back to our own gate, and as we passed another gate, we noticed a few agents pointing their cell phones out the window. They were taking pictures of...
Whoops! Something happened during pushback of this flight to Phoenix, and the nose gear had locked into a 90 degree angle, just like the famous JetBlue emergency landing at LAX. We watched for a few minutes and then went back to our gate.
Apparently, mechanics were able to get the nose wheel back in place, but they just pulled back to the gate and offloaded. Poor folks! They were told to stay around the gate while the aircraft was checked out, and drinks were brought for the stranded passengers.
The aircraft we were supposed to take to LAX was late coming in, but finally arrived.
It seemed to take an awful long time to turn this aircraft around, but we finally boarded.
LAS - LAX
US Airways Flight 973, Sunday, May 18 2008
Airbus A320 – N122US
Load Factor: 100%
Amy and I had originally been booked both in middle seats, but a day before we noticed 2 seats next to each other had opened up. However, now the plane was completely full.
The plane with the nose gear problem was next to us, and I saw some window shades pop up, so I guess the plane was cleared to fly and was boarding as we pushed back.
We taxied out, and without any delay at all, rolled straight out onto the runway.
After 5 minutes of just sitting there, the plane powered up, and taxied off the runway.
The captain came over the PA and announced that our flight was asked to hold for spacing. A few minutes after that, we powered up again, turned, and taxied straight onto the runway and immediately took off.
Now that the sun had set, there was far less turbulence than inbound. I enjoyed the dusk photos, especially as I saw the one-day-away-from-full moon up there and looking great.
I didn't know that they don't do a beverage service between LAS & LAX because of the short duration of the flight. I suppose it would take too long on a fully loaded A320. We were only in the air for about 25 minutes before starting to descend into the Los Angeles area.
I snapped a ton of photos, not knowing if any turned out - I figured, if they turn out, they'll be freakin' AWESOME, if not, so what? Here's what I got on descent.
We landed smoothly on Runway 24R, and had to taxi all the way back to Terminal 1, on the other side of the airport. All in all, we had arrived almost 1 hour late. The entire process, from arriving at Fresno to getting off the place in Los Angeles took 8.5 hours.
We left the airport and headed over to the Encounters Restaurant, where we had reservations for dinner. Even though we were late, it wasn't a problem getting us seated, although we were the last people there when we left. The view was cool, even though the arches of the Theme Building were covered in scaffolding.
From there, we walked over to Terminal 6 to catch our shuttle to the Sheraton Gateway hotel. It was an absolute madhouse at the shuttle stop where we were waiting - cars crossing the center area from Terminal 2 to 6 kept merging into the lanes going all around the airport, and then cars were trying to merge in and out of the terminal side lanes into the outer lanes - so it was a total automotive free-for-all. We got headaches from all the exhaust and horn honking. We waited about 25 minutes in total for our shuttle. Turns out we could have walked to the hotel quicker.
Finally got checked in and settled into our room.
We zoned out watching TV until about 11:30. We watched part of a Star Wars parody done by Family Guy (bizarre!), but couldn't stay up late enough to watch the rest.
We woke up the next morning and ordered a room service breakfast. All the time I was watching aircraft coming in to land on 24R and snapping pictures, but the lighting wasn't great and the window wasn't clean.
We caught a cab for our meeting later that morning. When leaving our floor, we walked over to the window for this shot:
It went great! We got to meet the intended parents and all went well. We headed back to the hotel quite happy, but quite early - we got back there at about 1:30 pm, with our flight home not scheduled to leave for another 7 hours. I convinced Amy to take a walk with me out to the ol' In-n-Out spotters park, and we spent an enjoyable 2 1/2 hours there. The weather was beautiful!
We decided to head back at about 4:30, and walked to our hotel, picked up our bag, and caught the shuttle to the airport. The shuttle ride took all of 2 minutes. I walked out to the terminal overlook area, which is the stretch of sidewalk between the terminals on the arrivals level, where you can get a neat view of the parked traffic.
I would have walked all around the airport doing this, but I was rather tired and wanting to sit down for awhile. We checked in using a kiosk and headed to security. There were no lineups to get through, but as we approached the checkpoint, a bunch of agents started yelling something (not sure what they said), and everything froze. Agents stepped forward to block the X-ray scanners, and no one was allowed to move. All the passengers were looking around with "WHAT TH'?" expressions. A few minutes later, someone yelled "CLEAR," and things started moving again. Nothing was said about this. One of the people ahead of us seemed really distressed about the whole thing - she was white as a ghost!
Anyway, we were through security 2 minutes later and we proceeded to find a nice place to sit, towards the end of the terminal where I could watch the action.
I was fairly tired so I didn't do much photographing for an hour and a half. But that changed when Southwest's Maryland One taxied in. I missed the shot of it arriving, but moved over to the gate where it had parked to wait for it to leave. About that time, we also saw smoke outside the terminal; it looked like it was coming from a bus parking lot towards the northeast side of the airport.
The fire was put out quickly by an armada of arriving fire trucks. Now that lighting was good, I went back to snapping photos again.
Then Maryland One pushed back. Beautiful!
We finally headed to our departure gate for the last half hour before boarding. Our plane was already there, and I wasn't able to, at LAX or LAS, find out the registration.
10 minutes late, boarding began. However, the flight was only about 30% full, so boarding took 10 minutes. My seat had a window shade that was stuck in the halfway position, so we moved to the row behind us, which was empty.
LAX - LAS
US Airways Flight 1011 – Monday, May 19 2008
Airbus A320 - Unknown reg.
Load Factor: 30%
We pushed back 5 minutes before scheduled departure. The taxi was quick, and we took off and headed a fair distance over the ocean before starting a 180 degree turn to the left. As before, I snapped a ton of photos hoping they'd turn out, and luckily, some did! Notice the full moon that night.
We moved over into one of the empty rows on the left side of the plane for the approach into LAS. None of my shots of the strip turned out really good, but here's the closest:
And here are some better photos of the arrival.
We pulled into the gate and deplaned. We had about 2 hours to kill until our next flight departed, so we went and got dinner from a sandwich shop. The central area, between the A & B gates looks so cool at night!
We headed back to the gate, packed with people on a delayed flight to Phoenix, one to Salt Lake City and a full flight to Orlando. Our gate was changed, and finally it was time to board the CR9, my first flight in that type. We boarded using the airstairs after walking out over the tarmac in the still-warm air.
LAS - FAT
US Airways Express (Mesa Airlines) Flight 2791 Monday, May 19 2008
Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-900 - N902FJ
Load Factor: 95%
The flight was almost full, and left on time. Unfortunately, it was too dark to get any shots of this leg, and it didn't help that the window wasn't in very good shape. Ah well, I was too tired to care at that point - I just wanted to get home.
We arrived at the runway, and after 3 aircraft took off in short order, so did we. We climbed out and I got a great view of the Las Vegas strip, and it was cool to just enjoy the view instead of trying to photograph it.
We crossed the mountains, and just about everyone on the plane was sleeping - the drink service went quickly. I had a Coke for the caffeine - we still had a 45 minute drive ahead of us after landing.
Ours was the last flight into Fresno that night, arriving at 1am. It was eerie seeing the large terminal completely empty.
We got back out to our car, paid our parking fee, and drove home. It was hard keeping focused on driving - it had been such a long day and I was drowsy.
Anyway, got home at about 2 am, and was at work 7 hours later.
All in all, a real whirlwind trip - kinda funny that airport to airport, it was a 37 hour trip, but we only really needed to be there for our meeting, which was 2 1/2 hours in total.
As for the flights, I have no real complaints. The aircraft were in good condition with the exception of the broken window shade, and the crews varied from being quite friendly to 'let's just get the job done.'
Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed the photos. They are probably among my favorite batch of flight-related photos that I've taken.
The End!
I might be an introvert...let me think it over and get back to you.
ASFlyer81 From United States of America, joined Jan 2008, 48 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 11278 times:
Nice trip Report, I noticed when u were in Las vegas u were next to gate B25, I was there switching planes I was swtiched from flight #209 from phoenix to las vegas and departed to Anchorage from gate B25 flight 141, all US airways flights, was any of ur flights on the A319's had all leather seats?
AirTranTUS From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 11272 times:
Quoting Cytz_pilot (Thread starter): We watched part of a Star Wars parody done by Family Guy (bizarre!), but couldn't stay up late enough to watch the rest.
You really missed out. That is a fantastic and very well-made episode! It's called "Blue Harvest" if you want to try and find it online.
Quoting Cytz_pilot (Thread starter): I was really looking forward to taking photos now that I've learned how to set my DSLR to take the best quality photos.
What kind did you get and what equipment do you have? The photos were fantastic. No such thing as too many when you are at the LAX In-N-Out. Did you edit them all in Photoshop?
Chuckles1225 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 6 days ago) and read 10938 times:
fantastic photos and report. sounds like it was a much more interesting and exciting trip than by car. i swear there is nothing more depressing than driving down the highway on a long trip and looking up to see contrails overhead. i hope you have the opportunity to fly a lot more in the future and keep the great pictures coming.
JetBlueAUS From United States of America, joined Apr 2006, 1116 posts, RR: 11 Reply 5, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 10791 times:
Quoting Tsaord (Reply 4): Hey...what terminal is US in?? That terminal looks nicer then the WN terminal I always fly into
At LAS, US Airways is in Terminal A - I believe.
Not all of us can be heroes, some of us can only stand on the sidewalk and clap as they go by.
RedTailDTW From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 664 posts, RR: 2 Reply 6, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 10743 times:
Quoting JetBlueAUS (Reply 5): At LAS, US Airways is in Terminal A - I believe.
Slight Correction:
US Airways is in Terminal 1 Concourses A & B
Southwest is in Terminal 1 Concourse C (but does use a couple B Gates)
Midcon385 From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 510 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 10627 times:
Very nice TR with lots of great photos! Thanks for posting it!
Cytz_pilot From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 482 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 10314 times:
Quoting ASFlyer81 (Reply 1): I noticed when u were in Las vegas u were next to gate B25, I was there switching planes I was swtiched from flight #209 from phoenix to las vegas and departed to Anchorage from gate B25 flight 141, all US airways flights, was any of ur flights on the A319's had all leather seats?
Yes, I arrived from Fresno right around there. Our A319 (the only one we traveled in) was an ex-AW bird, with fabric seats branded with the America West logo. What time were you there? I might have a photograph of your plane if you know the reg.
Quoting AirTranTUS (Reply 2): You really missed out. That is a fantastic and very well-made episode! It's called "Blue Harvest" if you want to try and find it online.
Yep, I did find it online and it was quite entertaining! I wonder why it was called Blue Harvest?
Quoting ASFlyer81 (Reply 1): What kind did you get and what equipment do you have? The photos were fantastic. No such thing as too many when you are at the LAX In-N-Out. Wink Did you edit them all in Photoshop?
Thanks! I shoot with a Nikon D40x, a great DSLR at a good price. The only problem was that the default settings result in photos that are much to contrasty & saturated in my opinion. Once I set the camera to soften the photos automatically, I became really happy with the result. The photos only received basic edits - sharpening, resizing & levels only if absolutely necessary. Wasn't in the mood to spend 8 hours for a trip report.
Quoting Chuckles1225 (Reply 3): i hope you have the opportunity to fly a lot more in the future and keep the great pictures coming.
Me too! I miss not flying as much as I did 5 years ago. At least it makes the experience all the more exciting when I do.
Quoting RedTailDTW (Reply 6):
US Airways is in Terminal 1 Concourses A & B
Southwest is in Terminal 1 Concourse C (but does use a couple B Gates)
Also, according to the US Airways inflight magazine, the map of LAS says that there are some US Airways gates in the C Concourse - but it could have just been Star Alliance partner gates.
Quoting OA260 (Reply 8): That Area by In N out sure looks like the place to be.
I actually prefer Imperial Hill, but that would have taken more than a walk to get to.
Thanks to all who posted!
I might be an introvert...let me think it over and get back to you.
StarAlliance38 From United States of America, joined Jan 2008, 1244 posts, RR: 2 Reply 10, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 10243 times:
Great TR! LAS looks very nice! Once I visit LAS, I would have visited every main US hub . I hope you liked US. I'll be taking my 25th flight with em soon
Phileet92 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 274 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 10201 times:
you have some really nice pix here fine sir. any of them submitted into the database yet?
Travelling is not all about the destination. its about how you get from point A to point B and everything in between.
ASFlyer81 From United States of America, joined Jan 2008, 48 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 10184 times:
Acutally i didnt get any serial numbers, The A319 i flew from Phoenix to Las Vegas was a very nice place looked like very fresh paint, very nice shap in fact the interior was like brand new, all the seats were all like a light gray with AW emblems on the head rests, i was very impressed, then when i flew from las vegas to Anchorage that plane had cloth seats and all worn, I was there on May 13th arrived in the A terminal and walked to that terminal, I was there around 10:30am- 11:15am , departed at 11:25am, did u noticed the construction on the ramp by the B gates?
RedTailDTW From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 664 posts, RR: 2 Reply 13, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 10167 times:
Quoting Cytz_pilot (Reply 9): Also, according to the US Airways inflight magazine, the map of LAS says that there are some US Airways gates in the C Concourse - but it could have just been Star Alliance partner gates.
They have the authority to use some of the C Gates if they need to just like WN has authority to use B Gates but really, US doesn't even use the gates they got now since their hub is in a decline.
Cytz_pilot From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 482 posts, RR: 1 Reply 14, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 10138 times:
Quoting StarAlliance38 (Reply 10): I hope you liked US. I'll be taking my 25th flight with em soon
Yes, I like US Airways just fine...although I have only flown 10 flight segments on them since 1998.
Quoting ASFlyer81 (Reply 12): I was there on May 13th arrived in the A terminal and walked to that terminal, I was there around 10:30am- 11:15am , departed at 11:25am, did u noticed the construction on the ramp by the B gates?
Yes, I did notice that construction - actually that construction really messed me up at first, the last time I flew out of Las Vegas, it was through that area (pre-construction). Because half of the terminal was now blocked, I thought I was somewhere else and ended up totally confused until I looked at a map.
Quoting Phileet92 (Reply 11): you have some really nice pix here fine sir. any of them submitted into the database yet?
Thank you for the compliments! I haven't uploaded any to the database, as I haven't had anything accepted in quite a while...although the last time I tried was before the DSLR. To those who know better than me - do any of these stand a chance? I would love to try some uploads although I just plain don't have the time to do it unless I'm relatively sure they'll be accepted. They all came from full-res 10mp shots.
Thanks!
I might be an introvert...let me think it over and get back to you.
KLASM83 From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 327 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 9894 times:
Great TR, cytz_pilot! Thanks for the pictures of the A/B gates @ KLAS. It's nice to see what the County has done with the refurb of those once awful looking gates. Looks like you had TONS of fun spotting!
Flyin' in the sunlight. Flyin' in the moonlight. Having a wonderful time.
UN_B732 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 4246 posts, RR: 4 Reply 16, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 9859 times:
I didn't know US Airways (East) flew LAS-LAX, but it seems as though both of your LAS-LAX segments were operated by US Airways (not America West) aircraft.
Leo8448 From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 76 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 9722 times:
Drewwright From United States of America, joined May 2001, 614 posts, RR: 1 Reply 19, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 9714 times:
Nice trip report! I found it a little bit ironic that you took pics of the ExpressJet flights that were probably nonstop either to ONT or LGB, but two-legged through LAS. I guess XJET is not doing a good enough job promoting itself in the region.
Cytz_pilot From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 482 posts, RR: 1 Reply 20, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 9569 times:
Quoting KLASM83 (Reply 15): Thanks for the pictures of the A/B gates @ KLAS. It's nice to see what the County has done with the refurb of those once awful looking gates. Looks like you had TONS of fun spotting!
You know I wasn't much impressed when I passed through there last September, but it was dark, and I had the little guy with me (try keeping a 2 year old away from the bright flashing lights and funny sounds coming from the slot machines, but they got pissed off whenever he walked within 30 feet!), but it looked better in the light of day.
Quoting UN_B732 (Reply 16): I didn't know US Airways (East) flew LAS-LAX, but it seems as though both of your LAS-LAX segments were operated by US Airways (not America West) aircraft.
I think LAS is a stop on a number of flights US Airways operates from the east coast. I know the plane from LAX-LAS was headed to Philadelphia after that on the same flight number.
Quoting SAN787 (Reply 17): Can't wait to read your YYZ TR!
It will sadly be BUF instead - call me a procrastinator but I still haven't renewed my passport.
Quoting Leo8448 (Reply 18): I think you were on N122US LAX-LAS.
Actually the LAX-LAS aircraft was in the new colors, and N122US was the one we had taken the day before - still in the old colors. It would be good to know what it was for my log, but jetways and solid walls blocked any hope of finding out which plane it was. Oh well!
Quoting Drewwright (Reply 19): I found it a little bit ironic that you took pics of the ExpressJet flights that were probably nonstop either to ONT or LGB, but two-legged through LAS. I guess XJET is not doing a good enough job promoting itself in the region.
The agency we're going with does all of its flight bookings through a travel agent, and they had brought up the ONT flight the last time we had gone down there. I was surprised that they booked us to LAX to be honest. Probably because it's far more convenient to the office. If it's any consolation for ExpressJet, the plane that I photographed both arrived and left 100% full.
Thanks for everyone's replies!
I might be an introvert...let me think it over and get back to you.
KLASM83 From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 327 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 9478 times:
They can be quite anal when it comes to kiddies near slots in Nevada (they afraid hes gonna hit Megabucks or something? lol ). From my readings and observations it seems they tried to bring elements and accouterments from the "D" gates into the old architecture of the A/B gates. They did decently it looks, but missed the "increased natural light" part.
Flyin' in the sunlight. Flyin' in the moonlight. Having a wonderful time.
Tom in NO From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 7194 posts, RR: 51 Reply 22, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 9454 times:
Nice to see a trip report where the vast majority of pictures were taken outside the window, as opposed to most of thoe reports these days that seem to spend an inordinate amount of time on what the salad dressing was or whether the plates were styrofoam or plastic.
Your LAS photos, both in the air and on the ground are especially good.....and yes, the In-N-Out on Sepulveda is a great place to enjoy two of life's simpler pleasures.
Tom at MSY
"The criminal ineptitude makes you furious"-Bruce Springsteen, after seeing firsthand the damage from Hurricane Katrina
Leo8448 From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 76 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 9389 times:
Cytz_pilot From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 482 posts, RR: 1 Reply 24, posted (1 year 8 months 2 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 9291 times:
Quoting KLASM83 (Reply 21): They can be quite anal when it comes to kiddies near slots in Nevada
True, and I certainly understand why...it's just an airport is boring for most adults, and more so for kids! They won't reasonably be able to just sit there for hours, they'll find something interesting and gravitate towards it. If they want them to stay far away from the slot machines, it stands to reason that something else be made available for them to do. Even little Fresno airport has a small kids play area (it kept his attention for 45 minutes). Maybe a kiddie casino with toy slot machines and such.....wow, do you hear thunder?
Quoting Tom in NO (Reply 22): Nice to see a trip report where the vast majority of pictures were taken outside the window, as opposed to most of thoe reports these days that seem to spend an inordinate amount of time on what the salad dressing was or whether the plates were styrofoam or plastic.
As someone who has gotten used to domestic US economy air travel, I can respond by saying: Salad dressing? Plates?? Whaaa???
lol!
I might be an introvert...let me think it over and get back to you.
25 Omoo: amazing photos, are you using a filter or some kind of a polarizer ?
26 EXAAUADL: How do you load that many photos???? I only have like 10MB of storage here on a.net
27 Cytz_pilot: Thanks! For the through-the-glass photos I just got close to the glass and my bulky shadow blocked out most of the reflection. No filter or anything.
28 LASOctoberB6: I loved the Trip Report! Funny how I was home when your plane flew over me and went to the airport a few hours later and saw your plane depart.. You s
29 LGA777: First of all great report and photos, really enjoyable. I think you have a lot of uploadable quality photos. And btw I have a 20 month old daughter wh
31 Cytz_pilot: Ah, so you saw the plane that sat on the runway forever. That was annoying considering the flight had left almost an hour late, and we had dinner res
32 Leo8448: Actually 109 was flying DEN-PHL on the 19th. The aircraft you were on was N122US not 109. According to www.acarsd.org you were on 122. N109UW ACARS m
33 LGA777: We are very lucky (so far) she is a great flyer and for the most part pretty good anytime she is out in public. While she generally is a good baby mo
34 Leo8448: You are probably right, my source is probably wrong (or maybe a few days off?). Leo8448jr.[Edited 2008-05-31 10:58:04]
35 StarAlliance38: I remeber a week after the merger, I was in ORF and I remember seeing an Am West plane, still its its great green, orange, and white. I love their li
36 BA319-131: Great report and pictures - some of them are excellent! Good to see LAX and LAS pix, both in my top 10 of favorite airports for spotting. Regards Mark
37 Treebeard787: Very well written report! Also some excellent pictures!
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. I hope you liked US. I'll be taking my 25th flight with em soon
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