Re: BOS-PBI-RDU-BWI-BOS (JetBlue, Southwest) & getting to try out a new airline - Avelo

Nothing wacky in the immediate future, but I have a Phoenix roundtrip and ultra-long haul Polaris coming in the next couple months!

Re: BOS-PBI-RDU-BWI-BOS (JetBlue, Southwest) & getting to try out a new airline - Avelo

BWIAirport wrote:

Great report, love your narration and photos as always!

Re: BOS-PBI-RDU-BWI-BOS (JetBlue, Southwest) & getting to try out a new airline - Avelo

Thank you for another enjoyable trip report. QQ - When taking off from PBI did the flight make a quick turn to avoid flying over Mar-a-Lago? I think it was more of an issue with traffic. They had another plane departing the other runway ahead of us. I think it was just a spacing issue. Most of the ...

BOS-PBI-RDU-BWI-BOS (JetBlue, Southwest) & getting to try out a new airline - Avelo

A few months ago, I moved to Boston. I had a couple of days off from work, and was going to go to Florida during my time off. Instead of when I used to fly from New York to Florida, now I would be flying from Boston instead. There are still plenty of flights down to Palm Beach. It is just that New Y...

Re: BWI-DTW-ORD-PHX-LAS-SFO-ATL-BWI | I Found My Limit

Nice trip report! You included a few of my favorites:
- Plane (757)
- Airport (PHX)
- Airline (United)

I have been on every type of United plane, except the A321. Hopefully I can try it out real soon

Re: Little Plane, Big Comfort: Delta's A220 BWI-SLC-RNO Roundtrip (ft. 738 & E175)

Nice sunrise pics on the way out of BWI. 220 is cool plane, right? So far I have only gotten to fly on it once. A Delta A220. It was a nice plane, and I liked the 2-3 seating. I know a few people who fly it, and they all like it a lot. I look forward to flying on it more.

MCO-BNA-SYR-MCO - Southwest, Allegiant & JetBlue

I had it in my head that I wanted to do a daytrip on Allegiant. The last time I flew Allegiant was 4 years ago, in November 2019. I have flown on Allegiant a few times. My first flight on Allegiant was on an MD-80. The other flights were on an Airbus. Allegiant obviously is not my favorite airline, ...

Re: 2 Firsts, 1 Trip: DTW-BOS and BOS-MKE on DL

It's sad to see the state of disuse that the McNamara Terminal has fallen into in recent years as its one of my favorite terminals in the US (aside from the dots on the windows). It just doesn't have the same hustle & bustle as it did in the NW days. When I was there a few years ago I noticed t...

Re: My Craziest Day Trip Yet - IAD-LAX-PDX-SLC and back with Max 9 Shenanigans and Winter Weather

What an awesome read. PDX is one of my favorite airports. I have family in Portland, and fly to PDX a few times a year. I have also done a few day trips there like you did. I have done countless day trips, and fingers crossed I haven't ever gotten stuck somewhere. But, at least it kind of worked ou...

Re: 2 Firsts, 1 Trip: DTW-BOS and BOS-MKE on DL

I recognize that BOS-MKE flight. I have flown it a few times. I also have a family member in their last year of Medical School, doing their interviews. Good Luck with everything as you start your residency!

Re: My Craziest Day Trip Yet - IAD-LAX-PDX-SLC and back with Max 9 Shenanigans and Winter Weather

What an awesome read. PDX is one of my favorite airports. I have family in Portland, and fly to PDX a few times a year. I have also done a few day trips there like you did. I have done countless day trips, and fingers crossed I haven't ever gotten stuck somewhere. But, at least it kind of worked out...

Re: Airline Pilot Trip Report # 6 (CLT, CLE, BOS, JAX & PHL)

TUGMASTER wrote:

JetBlue 01,
Fantastic report again.
Any news on when #7 will be published..??

Orlando - Syracuse (Southwest & Delta) 737, A319 & 757

This was from a trip I took a month and a half ago. I was down in Florida, and was going back to New York for Thanksgiving. I would be going from Wednesday to Saturday. Thanksgiving is a busy time to travel, but luckily flying standby was pretty easy both ways. For the flight up, I was going to fly ...

Re: New York - Louisville - Phoenix - Newark (Delta E175, Southwest 737 and United 757)

Kno wrote:

Some people really struggle to respect each other in close proximity. Best to enjoy the free entertainment and stay out of it. Great report!

Re: New York - Louisville - Phoenix - Newark (Delta E175, Southwest 737 and United 757)

Cool report, there's nothing quite like a 757 flight and PHX is one of my favorite airports. Considering you see 150-200 fellow passengers per flight, I guess they can't all be wonderful angels. Sounds like it made for some great entertainment for you at least. I've been relatively lucky with seatm...

Re: Airline Pilot Trip Report # 6 (CLT, CLE, BOS, JAX & PHL)

Such a detailed report; absolutely awesome thank you for putting these together and sharing. These are great day-in-the-life reports for those of us stuck behind a desk. We get to learn a lot so thank you! Maybe in my next life. I do have a question. Is a post-flight walkaround common SOP? I ask be...

Re: Airline Pilot Trip Report # 6 (CLT, CLE, BOS, JAX & PHL)

This was a great read- thank you for sharing and giving us a glimpse of the behind the scenes. It seems like often enough everyone is upset with operations, which passengers really need to keep in mind before giving y'all a hard time. You're right. We don't have to deal with passengers as much as g...

Re: Airline Pilot Trip Report # 6 (CLT, CLE, BOS, JAX & PHL)

ExpatVet wrote:

I enjoyed this! Really interesting to see behind the scenes.

Re: Airline Pilot Trip Report # 6 (CLT, CLE, BOS, JAX & PHL)

bols59 wrote:

This is a fascinating story. Thank you for taking the time to write it. Sensational pics as well.

New York - Louisville - Phoenix - Newark (Delta E175, Southwest 737 and United 757)

One day I was just looking around at flights, and noticed that United was flying the 757 from Phoenix – Chicago. Earlier this year, I went back to Phoenix for the first time in 3 years. Phoenix is one of my favorite airports. It was my airport for my 4 years of college. Once I saw the United flight,...

Re: Airline Pilot Trip Report # 6 (CLT, CLE, BOS, JAX & PHL)

sudenmorsian wrote:

What an in-depth, interesting and well-written trip report! Thank you for sharing it online!

Re: Airline Pilot Trip Report # 6 (CLT, CLE, BOS, JAX & PHL)

Nice report!! BOX-JAX was my first IOE flight at YX. I miss the E-Jet! My first IOE flight was LGA-BNA. I flew BOS-JAX on one of my first trips off IOE. It is a nice plane to fly. What do you fly now? Nice! I went to BNA on day 2 of my IOE! The more things change, the more they stay the same at Rep...

Re: Airline Pilot Trip Report # 6 (CLT, CLE, BOS, JAX & PHL)

Longhornmaniac wrote:

Nice report!! BOX-JAX was my first IOE flight at YX. I miss the E-Jet!

Re: Airline Pilot Trip Report # 6 (CLT, CLE, BOS, JAX & PHL)

Great post. MG, that is rough having to wait forever in LGA on your trip to CLT. So many dependencies and quite a bit of frustration with everything going wrong. I would be mad too! Luckily delays that are that long, don't happen that often. I think I have only worked one other flight that was dela...

Re: Airline Pilot Trip Report # 6 (CLT, CLE, BOS, JAX & PHL)

SESGDL wrote:

Such a fun read! I always look forward to your TRs. Thanks for continuing to post in such amazing detail. Really gives insight into all the intricacies that most of us aren’t aware of. Thank you!

Jeremy

Airline Pilot Trip Report # 6 (CLT, CLE, BOS, JAX & PHL)

This is going to cover a 5 day trip, that I had back in the beginning of the summer. The summer is one of the busiest times of the year for travel. This summer was no exception. On top of all of this, there is usually lots of thunderstorms which cause delays and cancellations. Add in reroutes, retur...

Re: Albuquerque, NM: JFK-IND-DFW-ABQ-JFK (American & jetBlue)

I remember in the old days when ABQ had a satellite terminal with ground level gates and a couple of second level jetways attached to the land side terminal. TWA used those land side gates, and they had a small Ambassadors club. Wow. That sounds pretty different then it is today. How long ago was t...

Re: Albuquerque, NM: JFK-IND-DFW-ABQ-JFK (American & jetBlue)

Actually, I live in ABQ and go back to PHL often to visit family. Always figuring out creative ways to get there and back as well as fly on new or different aircraft. Sorry there was so much construction going on at ABQ. We're in the process of moving TSA up and all the shops back, post-security. F...

Re: Albuquerque, NM: JFK-IND-DFW-ABQ-JFK (American & jetBlue)

Glad you were able to visit ABQ! I did a very similar trip back in August, PHL-IND-DFW-ABQ. Like yours, the first leg, PHL-IND, was nearly empty and it was an A319. Very rare I'm able to standby and get a first class seat on an A319 with only 8 seats up front (even E175's have 12). That was my firs...

Re: Albuquerque, NM: JFK-IND-DFW-ABQ-JFK (American & jetBlue)

Yes, a very enjoyable report indeed. Do you find flying the E-jets as a passenger different now that you fly them as a pilot? I like the Embraer from a pilot and passenger perspective. It's very pilot friendly, and does a lot to make the job easy. I also like riding it as a passenger, with the two ...

Re: Albuquerque, NM: JFK-IND-DFW-ABQ-JFK (American & jetBlue)

SESGDL wrote:

Great report as always! Really enjoyed it!

Jeremy

Albuquerque, NM: JFK-IND-DFW-ABQ-JFK (American & jetBlue)

I was going to do another west coast redeye trip. I didn’t do a lot of planning for the trip. There were plenty of seats open for the Albuquerque – New York flight. I pretty much decided I was going to do Albuquerque. There were a lot of seats open on the flight from Dallas – Albuquerque. The flight...

Re: (Video Only) - Delta discontinued route from Boston to White Plains

Nice video. I flew this exact flight 10 days before they suspended the route. I did the afternoon HPN turn from BOS. Both of my flights were empty also, with less then 10 people in both directions. It was the only time I got to fly into HPN. It was a cool airport. I got to fly an interesting visual ...

Re: Upstate New York Aviation - 2023

How long has it been since DL stopped flying SYR-MSP? Those were the same times of the flights when they used to have them. There was a time when they did it on the CRJ-900, and then usually either the MD-88/90 or 717. I flew the route a few times, and flights were always full both ways.

Re: JFK-LAX-SFO-JFK - American A321 First Class & one last flight on an Alaska A321

Pellegrine wrote:

I enjoyed all of the photos. I love AA A321 transcon in F.

Re: JFK-LAX-SFO-JFK - American A321 First Class & one last flight on an Alaska A321

Hinkley wrote:

Nice one.

Re: JFK-LAX-SFO-JFK - American A321 First Class & one last flight on an Alaska A321

cv5880 wrote:

Thank you for such a great trip report and pictures!

Re: JFK-LAX-SFO-JFK - American A321 First Class & one last flight on an Alaska A321

debonair wrote:

Then I go to finish off the trip on my favorite plane, the 757.

I hear New Pacific is looking for pilots...

Re: JFK-LAX-SFO-JFK - American A321 First Class & one last flight on an Alaska A321

BWIAirport wrote:

Great pics and narrative as always!

JFK-LAX-SFO-JFK - American A321 First Class & one last flight on an Alaska A321

Alaska just retired their Airbus fleet. Now they are back to all Boeing. They had the A319, A320 and A321, that they inherited when they merged with Virgin America. I never flew on an Alaska A319. I did get to fly on an A320 from Las Vegas – Los Angeles, while it was still in the Virgin America live...

Re: Westchester-West Palm Beach-Atlanta-LaGuardia - jetBlue, Delta & Frontier A320/A321

The last airport that I had never flown out of, was HPN And what about " New York Stewart International Airport"? :scratchchin: I guess you have a point there. I didn't really think of Stewart Airport as being a NYC area airport. I guess I still have one more airport to go to. I know jetB...

Re: Westchester-West Palm Beach-Atlanta-LaGuardia - jetBlue, Delta & Frontier A320/A321

I flew on Frontier 30 years ago from Denver to Los Angeles. In those days they served a bagel with cream cheese. It was a pleasant flight. It's completely changed now. I liked the different animals on the tail. I'm sure Frontier has changed a lot since then. I have only known them to be low cost. T...

Re: Westchester-West Palm Beach-Atlanta-LaGuardia - jetBlue, Delta & Frontier A320/A321

Good report. I used to live a short distance away from HPN, and used to do flight training out of there. The airport has definitely grown in size and with the number of flights operated out of there. I remember flying on a United 737-300 to and from Chicago back in 2003, along with a flight to MSP ...

Westchester-West Palm Beach-Atlanta-LaGuardia - jetBlue, Delta & Frontier A320/A321

I had a few days off of work, and was going to Florida for a few days. This trip would be a little bit different in that I would not be flying out of JFK or LGA. Most of those flights were pretty full, or oversold. But there was a flight out of Westchester Airport that had a good amount of seats ope...

Re: New York - Tel Aviv: United E-175, 787 & A320

AVFCdownunder wrote:

Really enjoyed your report, thanks.

Re: New York - Tel Aviv: United E-175, 787 & A320

N823DX wrote:

Great report, Israel looks beautiful.

Re: New York - Tel Aviv: United E-175, 787 & A320

AirBourne wrote:

The Greek island you flew over was actually Kos, not Crete.

Re: New York - Tel Aviv: United E-175, 787 & A320

Nice report! In fact that I haven't flown United internationally since 2019. My last flight on United internationally was from BRU-IAD and meals were bad quality in economy and my last international flight was from ICN-SFO on Korean Air and meals were good quality in economy. These images shows tha...

Re: New York - Tel Aviv: United E-175, 787 & A320

The meal going is a disaster. They recently replaced the nice ice cream with these ghastly Milk biscuits / cookies. The people in charge of United catering really need their heads examined. I definitely have to agree. I thought it was cool they gave you an actual breakfast, but all around the food ...

New York - Tel Aviv: United E-175, 787 & A320

My sister was doing a program in Israel through her college for the summer. I wanted to go and visit for a few days at some point during the summer. She left in early June. My work schedule for June didn’t allow me the time to go. When my July schedule came out, I saw that I had a few days at the be...