What is this? A flight that’s not a widebody? Someone call the New York Times! In all seriousness, I haven’t been giving short-haul flights as much love as I should as of late, and I wanted to do one with a relatively-overlooked aircraft, the A320-200 of American Airlines. Mostly operating from former U.S. Airways hubs like Phoenix, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, and Washington D.C., the A320s are neither as common at smaller airports as the A319s nor are they transcontinental workhorses like the A321s, making them somewhat uncommon sights outside of a select number of airports.
Server: Solo
Airline: American Airlines
Aircraft: Airbus A320-200
Origin: Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix, Arizona (PHX)
Destination: Portland International Airport, Portland, Oregon (PDX)
Flight Number: AA1625
Route: KPHX-KPDX
Seat: 13A (Main Cabin)
Time En Route: 2 Hours 27 Minutes
Waiting to board in the morning in Phoenix
Lowering our flaps as we begin to taxi
We wasted no time at all in turning onto the runeay and taking off due to the heavy morning traffic today
Turning north near an open-pit mine west of Prescott, Arizona
Rocky air near Reno
Crater Lake to our left as we prepare for our descent into Portland
Wet morning landing
Deplaned at Portland International
