NW Trip Report TPA-MEM-DTW-CLE-MSP-BOI 59 Pictures!

[chiefnwa]

Hello,
This is my first trip report on jetphotos.net so tell me how I do. First, I'd like to give you a bit of a biography. I'm 16 years old and I live in a suburb of Tampa, Florida. Both my parents work at the Northwest Airlines Reservations Center. My mother has 29 years and my father has 32 years. I have been an aviation enthusiast for as long as I remember. So, let me start. All flights to Cleveland took place on June 5th. Everything after is on the 6th.

Also, I wrote this same review on flyertalk.com if you are interested.

Planning for which flights we (my dad and I) were going to shoot for (standby) started on Thursday. Our original plan was to fly to Atlanta and then to Cleveland from there. So, we got to the airport at 7:00AM for the 9:00AM flight to Atlanta on Delta. We made our way through the main terminal at Tampa to the tram for Airside E. When we arrived at the gate I decided to roam the terminal for my normal picture taking. When I returned to the gate I was surprisingly informed that there were 58 people listed on the standby list and we were 45 and 46! Since we are flying as a Northwest employee we aren't yet capable to fly ahead of Delta employees. That will change though on June 5th. We just decided to wait it out since there was one flight an hour to Atlanta. By 12:00PM we had not gotten on 3 flights! Since Northwest is now in the same Airside as Delta we decided to take our chances with the Memphis flight. Thankfully we got on that flight!


Tram entrance to Airside E


Inside Airside E


The first Delta flight we tried for, a MD-88


American MD82 parked at Airside F


Some American tails


Delta A319 departing for Hartford


Northwest Saab-340 arriving from Tallahassee


The 11:00AM ATL flight departing


Bordom, haha

Flight #1209
Departs Tampa at 12:35PM
Arrives in Memphis at 1:34PM
DC-9-30 N8960E
Departing gate E66
Arriving gate B4
Seat - 11E Window
On Time

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK1h93cEUuQ&fmt=18

Our plane, a 41 year old workhorse arriving from MEM. Ex-Eastern


E66 boarding gate for flight 1209


View from my seat


Pushback


Climbing past the Courtney Campbell Causeway


Climbing


Climbing past a thunderstorm


Legroom


Snack


Parked at gate B4

While in Memphis the first thing we did was head to a restaurant for a snack. I ended up getting a BBQ pulled pork sandwich. Then I decided to roam the airport for some pictures. I saw a few aircraft takeoff, one being a C-5 galaxy! Couldn't get a clear shot though. We had about 3 hours to spend so that's what I did the whole time. Our next flight was a bit delayed due to the aircraft arriving from Mexico.


View at the end of Concourse B


Inside


View of the terminal


Busy airport! haha


Interesting architecture


Fedex MD-11 taxing by

Flight #294
Departs Memphis at 5:22PM
Arrives Detroit at 8:17PM
A320 N336NW
Departing gate B42
Arriving gate A78
Seat - 08C Aisle
Delayed a few minutes (arriving aircraft from Cancun)


B42 gate departure


A320 cockpit

I only had an hour to spare in DTW. My dad left in 30 minutes back to TPA and I would continue to CLE. I had just enough time to go get the fountain picture and tunnel (which came out bad ) My dad knew the girl at my flights counter so she gave me a free upgrade to first class! The flight only had a 48% load.


Our aircraft we just got off of


Inside DTW


Inside DTW, tram station


Fountain


New Delta sign!

Airlink Flight #1856
Operated by Compass
Departs Detroit at 9:33PM
Arrives Cleveland Hopkins at 10:23PM
Embraer 175 N639CZ
Departing gate A63
Arriving gate C6
Seat - 02D First Class Window
On Time

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGDIlDpqLFo&fmt=18

Gate A63


Our plane


Legroom


Cabin


START HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Cockpit


Full cabin


Inside Concourse C at Cleveland

After arriving in Cleveland, I had about 20 hours there. The next day my grandparents took me on a photo shoot around Cleveland. I have included a skyline picture, but I have plenty more!


Cleveland skyline


Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame


Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame

After arriving at the Cleveland airport, I once again decided to walk around and I found a large paper airplane type thing and I explored the rest of the concourse.

Airlink Flight #3361
Operated by Mesaba
Departs Cleveland Hopkins at 7:00PM
Arrives Minneapolis at 8:11PM
CRJ-200 N834AY
Departing gate C6
Arriving gate A14
Seat - 06A Window
Delayed due to weather in MSP upon landing

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdwhsS7Ameg&fmt=18

My plane pulling up


Gate C6


CLE Paper Plane in the tunnel


Boarded


Concourse D


Cleveland Hopkins


View


Snack


Clouds


Clouds


Finally see the ground

When I arrived in Minneapolis I had to go get a Starbucks because I was tired and thirsty. I was waiting for confirmation that my flight wasn't delayed. Then I decided to go to the observation deck to get some pictures. Sadly, it was still a a downpour! Thankfully, my flight to Boise wasn't delayed.


Inside MSP


View from the observation deck

Airlink Flight #3541
Departs Minneapolis at 9:20PM
Arrives Boise at 11:36PM
CRJ-900 N908XJ
Departing gate C22
Arriving gate B22
Seat - 09D Window
On Time

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxGeD4eTpgo&fmt=18

Gate C22 to Boise


10PM Snack


Sunset


Boise's Terminal

After arriving I made my way to baggage claim to meet up with my cousin. I will be over here until the beginning of August. Next week, we will be driving to Coeur d'Alene.

Thanks everyone for taking the time to read and look through my pictures. Within the next few days I am going to be putting together some reports from past flights. Detroit, Shanghai, Boise and Boston! Please comment with suggestions if possible! For the most part the flights were excellent. I'm looking forward to the flights home and to Washington D.C. later this year!

Here are some links that you might want to take a look at...
My Jetphotos.net pictures

http://jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?aircraft=-2&airline=-2&country=-2&photog=41216&category=-2&year=-2&keywordrange=all&keywordlimiter=2&keywords=&sort=1&genre=1&size=-2&mainsearch=search&displaymode=1&display=15

My YouTube profile

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=chiefnwa&aq=f

And, if you haven't already try to watch the flight videos!
Also, some of you may recognize some of my pictures from here, I have a few more being screened currently.

Thanks!

[jazzyspreetsingh]

That trip report was awesome!

It had a lot of good details + good pictures!

I hope to get the chance to fly NWA before their aircraft get repainted into DL colors!

It looks like you enjoyed your flight and being in Cleveland. You were really lucky to be upgraded to first class!

I look forward to reading your future reports!

[chiefnwa]

Thanks

[Charles022]

Brill report

[z740]

Atleast this one was a REAL trip report.

In my opinion this was not bad at all. Glad to see people still put some decent effort into their TRs.

-Chris

[canair67]

Very well done with alot of work put forth. I was surprised to see a DC9-30 still flying regular routes after almost all of that series have long since vanished.Very interesting indeed.

[C-FMWQ]

Nice Report!

The photo's and the report are great .

May I ask which camera are you using?


Thanks Nehal

[chiefnwa]

Thanks!

Nice Report!

The photo's and the report are great .

May I ask which camera are you using?


Thanks Nehal

I'm using a Sony A200 with 18-70mm and 55-200mm lenses.

[LH-B744]

This is brilliant. It's good to see that there are airports where the NW-jets still stop at the gate side by side. Ok, that was 4 weeks ago, but maybe they are not that fast with the paint job..

[twagenknecht]

Nice report, and great shots from inside some of the airports...lately, I have not been able to get a lot from inside due to 'security reasons'!! I also liked the legroom shots...shows just what one gets, or doesn't these days. The one snack picture made me laugh...Delta seems to invest monies where it doesn't really matter. What sense does it make to imprint the name of the airline on a consumable? Anyway, enjoy ID..

[tommyalf]

Nice trip report. I can't get over what a dump MEM still is...you look at the other airports then you get to the pictures of MEM and it just locked in the 70s. I've flown through there a few times and while its not a bad airport to get stuck in from the standpoint of food and drinks but its just so dated.

[chiefnwa]

Thanks