Chicago – Bednar.co

First Trips of 2019

This past week I took my first flights of 2019. The first two were non eventful and I took an Airbus A319 and a Boeing 737-800 on American Airlines back and forth to DFW. However, my next set of flights were much better! I got to finally set foot on an Airbus A330-200 and in first class to boot from an upgrade. First time I got to enjoy the lie-flat seats.

Here she is in all her beauty, American Airlines Airbus A330-200 N289AY.

Of course, I had to document my seat experience!

It is going to be hard to go back to economy after this.

The flights back were not as great. The winter weather is in full force and I got stuck in Chicago for a bit. I landed early and decided to take a standby flight back home so that I could get in at a reasonable hour at the cost of my confirmed upgrade on a later flight. Well, my luck had run out as that flight got delayed three hours and we arrived just a few minutes before my originally scheduled flight. At least I know better for next time and to avoid Chicago at all costs during the winter!

Second Trip to San Francisco

My traveling has dropped off a bit the last couple of months and I have done a bad job at documenting everything, but I did capture some pictures for my second trip to San Francisco in as many months. I didn’t manage to capture any pictures of the American Airlines CRJ 700 that I took from CMH to ORD since the jet way layout at CMH is not conducive to grabbing pictures especially at gates B22 – B24. But I did manage to get a nice picture of the American Airlines Boeing 737-800 N847NN at ORD which would take us to SFO.

Busy month of flying

June was my busiest month of flying to date. I had 15 flights during the month – traveling almost every week. July is shaping up to be just slightly more busy. Instead of putting out all of the pictures from the month, I will just share a few of the highlights during my travels.

During a layover at PHL I saw quite a few American Airlines A330s.

Checking out Chicago

I have probably connected through Chicago O’Hare a dozen or more times in the last few years, but have never actually visited Chicago via the airport. Until now.

First up is United Airlines Embraer ERJ-145 N11539 to take us to Chicago.

Back to Memphis

This week, I was headed to Memphis for a few days. One of the downsides of traveling from a mid-market to another mid-market is that there are rarely any direct flights, so it usually means connecting and a great risk of delays or cancellations – especially during the spring and summer months. Well, this week I got bit by the delay bug.

Trip to Memphis

I was able to grab a few pictures during my recent trip to Memphis. This trip was a split of American Airlines and United Airlines.

On this trip, I was able to fly my first MD-83, at least from what I can remember. I might have flown one when I was younger, but back then I wasn’t as interested in the types of planes I was getting to fly. This plane has an interesting layout with 2 seats on the left side and three seats on the right side. Say hello to N9616G!