Review of Delta Connection flight from Detroit to New York in Economy

introduction

Welcome to part 2 of 3 flights that I'm taking today where I started my off in Salt Lake City, Utah and finishing my journey in Barcelona, Spain. This trip report will cover the tiny middle portion between Detroit and New York on Delta Connection. As I mentioned on my previous report, I went for this itinerary to be able and try out several aircraft types on my way to Europe because why not ?. I was quite excited in particular for this flight as I quite like the CRJ aircraft for there small size. Don't get me wrong I definitely wouldn't want to fly on them for flights longer than 2-3 hours but this flight will only be a quick one hour hop to NY's JFK so it should be perfect. Before this trip it had been over 5 years since I last flew on a CRJ aircraft and wanted experience it again as I had almost forgotten what it was like.  
This is the routing for this trip:

I'm currently making my way from my previous flight from SLC which you can find here, where we also arrived 45 minutes ahead of schedule so I had plenty of time to make my connection here at DTW.  

While on my way to the other concourse, I had received a notification from Delta that thanks to my silver medallion status I got upgraded to Comfort+ which was a nice surprise. 

My flight is DL 5441 departing out of gate B18

A view of my gate area.

Some information about my plane:
Flight number: DL5441
Aircraft: Mitsubishi CRJ-900LR
Registration: N936XJ
Delivered: October 30, 2008

Here comes my aircraft arriving from Madison, WI. Our CRJ aircraft is configured in 12 first class, 20 comfort+ and 44 regular main cabin seats.

Our flight for today will take us just over an our to complete at a distance of 509 miles or 819 km.

boarding

Here's my seat for the next hour, 8D. 

Legroom was of course very good at 34" pitch. I'm 5'9" or 176 cm for reference. 

The view outside my window.

pushback/takeoff

You can check out the entire pushback & takeoff video down below:

We pushed back on time. 

We lined up on the runway for takeoff.

Until next time Detroit!

A look at the overhead panel. Glad to see that these regional jets still have individual air vents which I am seeing a lot less on modern aircraft, any ideas why? 

20 minutes after takeoff and we reached cruising altitude.

A look at the tray table.

inflight service

Once we reached cruising altitude the FA's wasted no time and sprung into the aisle to perform the onboard service. Since I was in comfort+ I decided to take advantage of the free alcoholic drink and went for a red wine. Along with the drinks the FA's also handed out chips. Funny enough I overheard one of the FA tell the other that a guy in first class was buying everyone onboard a free drink on him which I thought was very generous of him ?. I've always heard stories of one passenger offering to buy everyone onboard a free drink but never been on a flight before when someone has offered to do so, so this was a first for me. 

Unfortunately for the entire flight there wasn't much to see below, most of our route which was almost flying all across Pennsylvania was covered in a thick cloud layer. 

initial descent/landing

Only a few moments later the Pilot announces that we would be beginning our initial descent into New York.

You can check out the entire descent & landing in the video below:

After doing a bit of cloud surfing we began to see the coast of Long Island. 

Welcome to NY!

Got a glimpse of this AeroMexico Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner departing for Mexico city (MEX)

DL Airbus A321 arriving from Tampa, FL (TPA)

We arrived at our gate 15 minutes ahead of schedule. 

deplaning

A brief look at the regional first class cabin which looks quite cozy if you ask me.

One last look at N936XJ, thanks for the safe ride!

This concludes the trip report, thanks for reading!