As the eponymous airport serving both the county and the city of San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport has a strikingly high amount of mainline airline service. One of these airlines is American Airlines, operating non-stop flights to Phoenix and Dallas using its Airbus A319-100s.
Server: Solo
Airline: American Airlines
Aircraft: Airbus A319-100
Origin: San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport, San Luis Obispo, California (SBP)
Destination: Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix, Arizona (PHX)
Flight Number: AA3168
Route: KSBP-KPHX
Seat: 9A (Main Cabin Extra)
Time En Route: 1 Hour 24 Minutes
Boarding on a cloudy day at SBP
Waiting to push back
Powerful departure from SBP’s 6,100-foot Runway 11
Climbout over the western San Joaquin Valley
Passing over Palmdale and Air Force Plant 42
We’ve started our descent near the not at all ominously-named Tombstone, Arizona
Passing Luke Air Force Base, the site of generations’ worth of USAF fighter pliots’ introductions to jet fighters, as we make our way into the Phoenix area
Landing on a warm winter morning
Taxiing past the ATC tower
Parked