Doing the return leg from Seoul on Delta’s newest transpacific route. This is not only Delta’s first transpacific route from Salt Lake City, but the first A350 route from there as well. It’ll be interesting to see if SLC fills the niche in Delta’s transpacific network that PDX used to. Anyway, here’s the trip report.
Server: Solo
Airline: Delta Air Lines
Aircraft: Airbus A350-900
Origin: Incheon International Airport, Jung-gu, South Korea (ICN)
Destination: Salt Lake City International Airport, Salt Lake City, Utah (SLC)
Flight Number: DL172
Route: RKSI-KSLC
Seat: 21A (Delta Premium Select)
Time En Route: 11 Hours 30 Minutes
Boarding at Gate 67, the same one we arrived in Seoul at. Our aircraft is one of Delta’s new premium-heavy 35H-configured aircraft, thr configuration which the airline will bringing the rest of the fleet to.
Listening to the distinctive sound of the A350’s flaps lowering to the 1+F position for departure
Taking off from Runway 33L by the cargo ramp
The last rays of sunlight are fading in the west as we cross the Sea of Japan at dusk
Late morning over the Eastern Pacific
Cruising over coastal Oregon
Beneath the cirrus layer near Elko, Nevada, during our descent into Utah
Landing in Salt Lake City
Taxiing to the A Gates
Deplaned at Gate A25