Finally it was our last leg of the trip back to London. It started off incredibly well, when the Hotel managed to get us a Limo instead of a taxi for the airport transfer! Driving through New York City in the back of a big white stretched Lincoln is something I would certainly reccomend!
We got to JFK with sensible time to spare, the standard 2 hours, which meant that after clearing security we were on the aircraft pretty quickly. We had booked this service specifically as it is the only BA 777 service to operate the JFK-LHR route.
The 777 to me was practically exactly the same as the 744 inside, and I settled down for a relatively uncomfrtable snooze for the 6 hour flight. Waking up properly for the breakfast service somewhere over Ireland, I managed to get a few photographs as we descended in over Manchester and Birmingham, with a few holds over Bovingdon, before landing on 27L, and parking on a remote stand.
Climbing out of New York:
Descending towards Bovingdon:
Just about to turn onto the ILS:
After an interesting weekend in Denver we headed to the airport late Monday evening, and after having checked in online headed through to a very quiet terminal building. We were the last flight of the day and as such all the retail had shut apart from one shop selling muffins and icecream, and a McDonalds.
Soon though we were boarding, and we took our seats towards the rear of the United 319. I fell asleep pretty quickly, which I was slightly irritated about as I wanted to try Channel 9, but after waking up Andy told me they had run out of headsets anyway! The landing was quite interesting as the runway only appears at about 50ft! Again, we were one of the only aircraft moving at that time of the morning, and so parked up and dismebarked pretty quickly.
After a short landside bus transfer we were passing through Terminal B, where security took a deep interest in our sim parts, requiring a very detailed search. At all times they were very amiable however, and let us get on our way with no further hassle. Despite the fact we were both certain we had a reservation on the 10am departure to La Guardia, our boarding cards said 8am, although we both missed this fact! We were therefore quite surprised to get a call asking us to come to the gate at 8am!
The aircraft was a right state inside, with bits falling apart here and there, but there were only 9 of us in the main cabin, so we at least got to spread about. There was some famous sports star in the First cabin, as the crew got their photographs taken with him, and they were talking about games and things, but I have no idea who he was!
Interestingly we taxiied out on just one engine, starting the other one a few minutes before departure. The flight to La Guardia was very non eventful, taking just 40 minutes at 16,000ft. LGA was deathly quiet as well, and we were out landside with our bags in no more than 5 minutes!
Our US Airways 319 parked in front of the impressive Boston skyline:
A sister Beech 1900, framed by a new colours 319 and a FedEx A300:
Hey from Toronto. We finally got here last night on our E135, after a 1 hour departure delay from the gate, and a 2 hour queue on the taxiways!
Heres a view of the wing of our 135 before the light went:
And here is a shot of about a quarter of the queue. It stretched up to the left then round to the right as you can see in the picture, but then continued down to the right almost 3 times as much:
Next stop is Denver via St Louis on Friday…
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