Here’s the follow-up to the SFO-MSP leg of our journey, resuming after a hike to the G Gates.
Server: Solo
Airline: Delta Air Lines
Aircraft: Boeing 737-900ER
Origin: Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, Fort Snelling, Minnesota (MSP)
Destination: Nashville International Airport, Nashville, Tennessee (BNA)
Flight Number: DL1144
Route: KMSP-KBNA
Seat: 10A (Delta Comfort+)
Time En Route: 1 Hour 56 Minutes
Waiting to board our aircraft at Gate G14. Our aircraft today is an ex-Lion Air bird, configured as 12C/161M.
Pushing back from the sea of Delta tails at the G Gates
Taxiing past the cargo ramp, which sees freight dogs from Bemidji Airlines’s Beechcraft Queen Airs to UPS’s 747-400F/BCF and 747-8Fs.
Takeoff by the Endeavor Air hangar
Amazing how rural Minnesota rapidly gets
Cruising over the Midwest on a warm summer night
Across the Ohio River over Kentucky in our initial descent
Reversers open and spoilers deployed as we decelerate on Runway 20R
Taxiing to Concourse B with the lights of Downtown Nashville glittering in the distance
Deplaned at Gate C3 next to an Atari Ferrari (757-200) that arrived from Atlanta, the only route we get the type on, and that only during the summer for the most part. It’s eerie, in a way, how even a mid-sized airport can be a veritable ghost town at night, when in only a short while it’ll be a hive of activity again as the morning commute begins.