welcome to the last flight for my trip to Denver, CO. first, the routing
-AF618 : PTP -> MIA (via PAP) A320 Caraïbes (avalaible french/english)
-AA509 : MIA -> DFW 738 (avalaible french/english)
-AA2356 : DFW- -> DEN A32B (here) (avalaible in french)
-AA309 : DEN -> MIA A32B (avalaible in french)
-AF613 : MIA -> PTP (via PAP) A320 Caraïbes (avalaible in french)
Dallas Fort Worth Airport
I left you in front of our gate (A41) where our Airbus operating the AA2356 was waiting us.
I really like the old fashion BP of American
After boarding, this is view of my window on the left side. Normally it'll allows me to have views of the rockies and denver downtown.
737&757
Old livery MD80
carpet test
Pitch's correct
notice int'l outlet.
And an IFE : what a luxury on a such short flight!
Pushback at 9am, expected at 9:05: pretty good.
At this time the safety video was recent…
AA
DFW Skylink
DFW is huge
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737
Some MQs
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We're in the last place but we exceed a small MQ
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the flight
thrust
and take-off:
we cross a little mist and then: the sun
we're heading north while IFE welcoming us
cruising altitude
chaplain
the outlet
roof
Then i watched a movie (dracula) in english, but most movies were avalaible in many languages (including french)
Safety card
more sunny outside
but we return on clouds
again and again
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some planes from west to east
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we started to see rocky mountains, in new-mexico
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geovision is made by Thales and is really good.
SouthWest LAX-MDW:
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the flight offers very beautiful landscapes
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At 9:20 am (mdt) we started our descend over Denver nearby of CoSprings
Rockies are pretty snowy : perfect
Despite my zoom we guess the beautiful CBD on Downtown Denver.
And we fly-over DIA, which is the biggest airport in terms of area just after King Fahd airport, Saudia Arabia.
DEN is twice bigger than DFW, the 3rd … it gives good theories to complotists.
Mountains again: i'm totally fan of the rockies, and the Colorado .
We started our 180° turn-over to DIA.
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It was a rock'n'roll landing, as usual in Denver where winds are always strong due to moutains (foehn effect)
we cross the 26
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Touch Down at 9:43 mdt.
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Denver International
Now we're heading concourse A
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here
757 Delta
A320 Virgin
Jeppensen terminal and WESTIN Hotel:
turn on the left
UA and Rockies
A320 Frontier, at home here in Denver international.
And a E175 United, at home too.
And a beautiful Icelandair 752 : I don't know what it's going for them now with the 737max troubles, but I think their 752 gonna spend a little more time in the air.
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Going to A51
Here, United and Frontier are the masters
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And we stop beside an A321 AA from Charlotte Douglas.
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unboarding
It takes a little time. UA going to SF in 739
And an other 737 is landing from MSY
Then we finally can exist the airplane
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A concourse
We're going to baggage claim
Concourse center, where the train is.
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We have to go down
I really love Denver train : it reminds me Zurich one: a little song, rapid and efficient.
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And we arrived on the Terminal with his beautiful roof supposed reminds Rocky Moutains snowy peaks, a few miles away from the airport.
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Here
Not here
After picking-up our luggages, we're going out to take the shuttle to the car rental center.
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And we're outside, it's only 40°F here.
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The blue mustang
The airport from the bus
Car rentals are just beside a runway : southwest departing to San Diego.
After few minutes in Hertz, an alarm started to ring : it was a tornado alarm, and we have to come back to the airport to go in a torando shelter. Everybody were quiet and proceeded in silent; but it was a really.. interesting experience for us, french. I'm used to earthquakes and hurricanes 'cause I live in Guadeloupe, FWI, but tornadoes : it was my first time.
It was between a tornado and a sand storm :
and finally we can drive the last 1.5hours to Breckenridge,co !!!!!
thanks for reading, i apologize again for my english, kisses loulou
