Alaska Airlines 737-900ER San Francisco to Seattle

[1930_Granada]

Journey between two of Alaska’s West Coast hubs.

Server: Solo
Airline: Alaska Airlines
Aircraft: Boeing 737-900ER
Origin: San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California (SFO)
Destination: Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, SeaTac, Washington (SEA)
Flight Number: AS1169
Route: KSFO-KSEA
Seat: 28F (Main Cabin)
Time En Route: 1 Hour 59 Minutes

Getting boarded at Gate B12. Since June 2024, Alaska has had all of its operations here at Terminal 1 in order to be closer to its Oneworld partner airline, American Airlines.

Waiting in line for departure

Taking off from 1R at SFO

Climbing to our cruising altitude of 32,000 feet near Lafayette and Walnut Creek, with Mount Diablo looming over them both

In cruise with the Three Sisters, a trio of volcanic peaks in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, in view

Descending near more of the Cascade Volcanoes. From left to right: Mount Ranier, Mount Adams, and Mount Saint Helens, what’s left of it.

Landing on a frigid (for the season) day in Seattle

Heading to our gate

Deplaned at D5 in Seattle. Our aircraft is now getting readied to head east to Nashville as AS522

[Ryan_and_Riona]

Since when does IF have the ER of the 737-900

[1930_Granada]

Since it started putting liveries of non-ER 737-900s on the model.

[Ryan_and_Riona]

Oh ok makes sense

[1930_Granada]

Gotcha. Just probably easier for the Devs to make one model of two externally-identical aircraft and give the flight model the range of the -ER variant.