• Keeping Austin Relatively Normal

     Flying just one leg from Guadalajara back to Houston, it was a relatively easy day. All we had to do was proceed through customs and then deadhead over to Austin where we would be for the rest of the day. I had eaten my “breakfast” of cookies around 4am, so my body was ready for…

  • Buenos Dias tortillas!

    Today marks my first international overnight. After an early morning flight from Little Rock to Houston, we continued on to Guadalajara. We arrived around noon and I had the rest of the day to see what Guadalajara had to offer. It is a big city, but our hotel was not exactly in the city center.…

  • Lil’ Rock

    By noon today, I had gone to Mexico City and back. Every pilot I have ever spoken to has said this is the absolute worst airport for getting in and out of. Issues with GPS losing signal near the airport, abnormal approach procedures, and controllers who use nonstandard communications are on the shortlist of the…

  • Boise

    We arrived into Boise around 6:30pm as the sun was setting. Our hotel was on the river, but not really near anything. Eating options were limited and the hotel did not even have any semblance of a restaurant or food options. I looked on a map and saw Albertson’s, the name of the grocery store…

  • Mile High Lodging

    For the first time in over three weeks, I spent the night in a hotel. Because Denver International Airport is so far from everything, our hotel was also a bit removed from the city. That being said, it was quite possibly the nicest hotel I have stayed at since becoming an airline employee. It was…

  • Exploring the world . . . one airport terminal at a time.

    For starters, I did not take this picture, I do not know what it is, nor have I seen it in person. I googled Guadalajara and this came up. You see, I did actually fly last week . . . once. It was a quick turn to Guadalajara, Mexico. I didn’t have time to do…

  • A Post for Pops

    I have been fortunate enough to have parents who liked to travel. In my youth, my father often did the majority of the planning of our various trips. And because he had a keen interest in art history, we found ourselves schlepping for hours to visit some obscure site that embodied an architectural style that…

  • First Week in Houston

    I’ve just finished my first week at the Houston base. I would have liked to have flown to new destinations, but the farthest I got from the Houston airport was my sister’s house – a 20 minute drive away. Despite there being relatively few reserves (at one point I was the only person on the reserve…

  • Farewell to Farms

    Knowing from the very beginning that my Minneapolis base would only be temporary, I attempted to make the best of it when I bid for certain flight routes. I requested overnights in Appleton, Wisconsin (my old hometown) and it seemed fitting that one would fall on my very last trip out of MSP. An uncle,…

  • KRAP Overnight

    KRAP is the international airport code for Rapid City, South Dakota. Last night we transported an oversold flight from Minneapolis to Rapid City. What is here you might ask? Well, a surprising amount of things. It is the jumping off point for the Badlands, Mt. Rushmore, Custer State Park, and Crazy Horse Memorial. The latter…

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