Flying with Elliot: DL DTW-BOS

Background As a third year medical student, my school provides me with a week off after every 3 months of clinical rotations. My third (and final) break period occurred after 6 weeks each of pediatrics and OB/GYN rotations. While my family doesn't celebrate Christmas, I decided to go back to BOS fo...

Re: To The Holy Land: United Premium Plus EWR-TLV-EWR

I lived in Israel for almost three years and never experienced air raid sirens once, so you're kind of "lucky" to get that experience! (Not so lucky for the Gazans..) I was in Israel during the 2014 missile crisis and never actually heard the air raid sirens, so you're "luckier"...

Re: Out With the Old and In With the New: Jet Blue DTW-BOS-DTW

I've flown through DTW multiple times but only on NW & DL so I've only ever been in the McNamara Terminal. How does the North Terminal compare? I always found the blue jet bridges interesting. The North terminal (now called the Evans Terminal) feels older sleepier, and less spacious than the Mc...

Out With the Old and In With the New: Jet Blue DTW-BOS-DTW

Background As a third year medical student, my school provides me with a week off after every 3 months of clinical rotations. My second break period (which occurred after a fun but tiring 12 weeks of surgery rotations) also happened to coincide with the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Y...

In the Eye of the Storm: DL MSN-DTW

Background As a third year medical student, my school provides me with a week off after every 3 months of clinical rotations. Through sheer luck, this vacation period (which came after 3, 1 month rotations on family medicine, neurology, and psychiatry) coincided with my cousin's COVID delayed weddi...

Re: My second trip as an airline pilot - IOE Trip #2

Thank you for 2 very interesting trip reports!

I'm curious (and I understand if you can't share this), but what are the Canada specific arrival procedures?

Re: London - Heathrow (LHR): MIA-DFW-LHR-PHL-PBI - American 777-200 & 787-9

The food was definitely better on the way back. Yep, they had a little cake for desert. The "breakfast" was also pretty underwhelming. I'm not totally surprised about that. I think a lot of trip reporters (myself included) have noticed that catering on TATL flights is usually better when ...

Re: The Calm Before the Storm: DL BOS-SEA-BOS+ Boeing at BFI and PAE

Lovely report and pictures! Jeremy Thank you Nice trip report and pictures. I wouldn't have had Washington at the top of my list of skiing destinations. Who knew? While Stevens Pass is actually a big mountain for ski tourism, most of the other mountains maintain a much lower profile, which means th...

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2022

The only time that I use Logan Express is when I land in BOS during rush hour (mostly because my mother doesn't like driving into the city during rush hour). Otherwise its easier just to have a family member pick me up and drive out to the metro Lowell area where I'm originally from.

The Calm Before the Storm: DL BOS-SEA-BOS+ Boeing at BFI and PAE

Background In early February 2022 I sat the US Medical Licensing Exam Step 1 (the first of 3 exams that anyone working on an MD needs to take in order to get a medical license). Once I finished the exam, I had a little bit under 2 months before I would be starting my core clinical rotations (and ab...

Re: (Photos and Videos) Atlanta to Los Angeles on the Delta 767-400 - Concluded a lovely 24 hours in Atlanta Georgia

Apparently the developers are aware of the issue. Unfortunately that's all we can do. Yeah I am note sure what happened with the images either. They worked for about a week and then the error occurred. I am very disappointed that this ended up happening. I put a lot of time into the report and unfo...

Re: Experiencing a Legend: B6 DTW-BOS-DTW

Sancho99504 wrote:

Nice report. Soon enough you'll be on the A223 with better, nicer IFE.

BTW that's a BA 787-9

Re: (Photos and Videos) Atlanta to Los Angeles on the Delta 767-400 - Concluded a lovely 24 hours in Atlanta Georgia

GSPSPOT wrote:

I don't know why, but instead of pictures all I see in their place is an icon and the word "Image".

Re: Do you check a bag for leisure travel?

For me it usually depends on the length of the trip. Generally if I'm traveling for less than a week I can get away with just carry on, however, if I'm traveling for longer I generally do need to check a bag. Of course, if I'm planning on having stuff to bring back (IE carrying frozen custard back f...

Experiencing a Legend: B6 DTW-BOS-DTW

Background Every 11-12 weeks my medical school gives us students a 1 week break for remediation, consolidation, and rest. My first break under this schedule was spent in MKE visiting my dad's family. For my second break under this schedule, I decided to return home to BOS to see my parents and my m...

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2021

Does anyone know if the jetbridges in Concourse A are due for refurbishment/replacement? I was flying into BOS yesterday for the holidays and their seemed to be some sort of mechanical issue that prevented the jetbridge from leveling with the plane.

Re: Caribbean Med School: B6 & AA ORD-JFK-GND-MIA-ORD

As someone who's also an M2 and a former EMT, that would be my exact same response. You know, over the last ten or so years I've encountered this situation several times on the plane. I guess traveling really takes it out on some people. A lot of it probably has to do with the stress of being broug...

Re: Caribbean Med School: B6 & AA ORD-JFK-GND-MIA-ORD

hen another announcement was made that they needed the assistance of any doctors that might be onboard the plane. Now I've worked as an EMT for over five years and I had completed 1.5 years of medical school by then, but thankfully someone else stepped up and I didn't need to be called into action ...

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2021

Here are the number of passengers, number of seats, and load factors for WN flights out of BOS in July 2021: BNA-BOS - 17416 passengers, 18453 seats, 94.38% load factor BOS-BWI - 41771 passengers, 44438 seats, 94.00% load factor BOS-DEN - 25594 passengers, 27323 seats, 93.67% load factor BOS-MCO - ...

A Long Weekend's Reprieve: DL DTW-BOS-DTW

Background Originally, my medical school scheduled my class's much delayed white coat ceremony for the Friday before Labor Day weekend. Due to COVID, the medical school called the ceremony off, leaving a 4 day long weekend with nothing scheduled. Due to the normal variance of the Jewish calendar, t...

Re: A Return to the Skies DL DTW-MKE-DTW

The situation looks to be better now but not too long ago the fares between DTW and MKE were astronomical (approaching $400 for a one-way IIRC). Its nice to see that mainline has returned to that route though, and even better that its with the 717 since pretty much everything else nowadays is 737/A...

A Return to the Skies DL DTW-MKE-DTW

Background Towards the end of the first part of my medical education, the school that I attend changed the curriculum/schedule to provide all 1st through 3rd year students with a roughly 9 day break every 12 weeks. My first break under this new schedule happened to coincide with the week prior to t...

**No Flights** Onwards and Upwards Part 1.5: The Final Days before Leaving the Country

Background Over the last few months it has been a little quiet here on the TR forum. During my 10 day medical school summer break, I was unable to do a lot for the first few days due to flooding in the Detroit area, In order to have something to do, I have decided to occupy myself by writing about ...

Re: When where and why did you last fly pre Covid?

Mid- February 2020, I flew ALB-DTW-ALB with DL for my second to last medical school interview (at Oakland University/Beaumont School of Medicine). Not only did I end up getting rejected after that interview, I came down sick with the flu a few days after returning. Now that I'm in Detroit attending ...

Re: Best. Flight. Ever! Business class on a Swiss Airbus A220 (my first time) from Zurich to Dublin

P. S. - my first-ever attempt at embedding photos using the "Insert image" function with a link produced only small question mark, so just left the links here instead. Any advice to help me get it right would be greatly appreciated. I've had this happen before with my trip reports. The sy...

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2020

Sad days when seeing a 340 is such a noteworthy rarity. Wasn't too far back when in one afternoon you could easily see LH, AF, TK, LX and even that leased HiFly 340 sitting on the line. I never minded the type. but I know a lot of guys who would do everything in their power to avoid working them, e...

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2020

So A343 will join the route starting this week. So sad I don`t even have a chance to spot LX B77Ws yet A343 might be even more precious...Is the flight still scheduled to arrive late at night? If so that will be another mission impossible for me Nice to talk to you again after spotting the last A34...

Re: A Dream Journey to the Aircraft Carrier Charles de Gaulle

Wow. amazing trip report. Like outbackair, I am also curious as to how you got access to this.

Re: American/British Airways ORD-LHR-NCL & Return Trip (Flying During COVID19)

Oh wow, a third Anetter either in or starting medical school!

Excellent trip report, and hopefully your classes continue to go smoothly for you.

Re: From My Archives: From the Snow to the Just Plain Cold-- 2014 British Airways BOS-LHR-ORY

Thank you for sharing this from your archives. Sure looks like BA did a solid job refurbishing the 747s, wonder how long they're gonna last thanks to the pandemic. Nice food on LHR-ORY, I don't think they do those anymore... No they do not. Its a shame because you could generally count on them choo...

Re: From My Archives: From the Snow to the Just Plain Cold-- 2014 British Airways BOS-LHR-ORY

We took the TGV down to Avignon, toured around there for a few days and then took a charter bus to Barcelona.

Re: Old Souls-Delta MD-88 Last Flight RIC-ATL

You're a braver soul than I am. Excellent trip report!

Re: What's the emptiest flight you've been on recently?

About 2 years ago, I was on a WN flight from MKE-BOS that had a total of 23 people onboard a B737-700.

From My Archives: From the Snow to the Just Plain Cold-- 2014 British Airways BOS-LHR-ORY

From My Archives Project I originally started the From My Archives project in the summer of 2018 to keep me occupied when I was working as an EMT and sitting around base bored while I waited for a call. I ended up resigning from the ambulance squad about a month before COVID-19 struck, and between ...

Re: Europe to FOB Fenty, Afghanistan

What an unusual and very interesting trip report!

Re: Has Austrian Airlines Given Up On Boston?

eta unknown wrote:

Does anyone really expect ANY new service to be launched this year?!?

Re: Flying during Coronavirus on American & Delta

Very interesting trip report. I'm curious as to why PHX had ATC delays when there were so few flights departing or arriving.

Re: AA Flagship Business 787-9 - AKL-LAX, 1A, 1/11/2019

As a pre-medical Honors student at the University of Arkansas, I have lived an exciting four years, seemingly always busy with school, socialization, or something else that always seems to come up. With COVID-19 bringing all of our busy lives to a screeching halt, I figured I would use this time to...

Flying into the Future Part 3: Delta ALB-DTW-ALB

Background: Flying into the Future During my senior year of college I am also applying to medical school. While the majority of the schools that I am applying to are within driving distance of my college in Albany, NY, 9 of them are far enough away that I would have to fly. The trip reports for thi...

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2020

It looks like PD is suspending all service from this Friday until June 1st.

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2020

I'm going to start my guess off by cautioning that I come from a health science background, and have very little business knowledge/accumen. My top 2 picks would have to be HU or CX, because current events (Wuhan virus and Hong Kong instability) are likely to make those routes unprofitable. That bei...

Re: Predictions for US3 in the 2020s

United: -retires 737-900, 757-200, 757-300, 767-300ER, 767-400ER, 777-200 -begins retiring A319/A320/737-700/737-800/737-900ER -SFO/LAX/EWR stay similar due to capacity constraints with more ULR routes added to Africa/Asia/Oceania, ORD grows slightly over time although I can't think of many glaring...

Re: Smoothest Landings?

My smoothest 3 would probably be An LY B772 flying from TLV-EWR, an F9 A319 flying BOS-MKE, an an AC A333 flying from TLV-YUL.

Re: What is the easiest way to upload a photo into the Trip Report forum?

I've been using Google Photos.

Re: Meals from Cancelled Flights

Most aircraft have air chillers installed in the galley I was on a flight recently that was delayed because they did not have enough dry ice to keep all the food fresh. Based on this, in some models of aircraft, I think both the air chillers and dry ice play a role in maintaining a safe temperature...

Re: Meals from Cancelled Flights

I am not sure of the hold over time allowed which is fine if it stored at the correct temps. Okie Hold over times for a delay of a few hours should not be an issue. Planes do not have regular refrigerators like we would have in our homes, so the issue becomes does the aircraft have enough ice/dry i...

Flying into the Future Part 2: Southwest ALB-BWI-ALB

Background: Flying into the Future During my senior year of college I am also applying to medical school. While the majority of the schools that I am applying to are within driving distance of my college in Albany, NY, 9 of them are far enough away that I would have to fly. The trip reports for thi...

Re: Flight Attendant Dress Code Question

Societal norms change. Years ago you would not have seen a woman, or person of color in the cockpit. Some guys have long hair, and piercings. I understand that but in my field at least, I have people (mostly young 20 somethings) look at me like I'm crazy when I say that I attend interviews with a s...

Re: Should I dress up for flying on my trip?

I normally will toss on a polo and wear climate appropriate pants (IE shorts in the summer, long pants in the winter, and convertible pants if I'm going long haul).

Flight Attendant Dress Code Question

Hello, A few months ago I was flying on Air Canada and noticed that one of the flight attendants had a man bun and nose piercing. In my field of work, this would be in violation of a whole host of dress code regulations. This has left me asking what do flight attendant uniform regulations say about ...