| Date | Airline | Flight | Type | Regn | Routing | Time | Miles | Remarks | ||
| Back | 31 Dec 16 | UA | 268 | 757-324 | N75853 | DEN-SFO | 02:02 | 997 mi | My 1st 757-300 | |
| 31 Dec 16 | F9 | 668 | A320-214 | N216FR | SFO-DEN | 02:09 | 1015 mi | Cliff The Mountain Goat | Next |
Not too much longer after booking my roundtrip PHX-DEN trip did I get the notion to try and find a 757-300 flight I could work into the equation. As it turned out United did have a 757-300 flight to SFO available an hour or so after my flight from PHX would arrive. Depsite the relatively high fare I decided to book it. With a flight on Frontier back to Denver available just after dark I would end up spending the day watching planes at SFO versus DEN...not a bad tradeoff.
Below is a photo of my 757-300 arriving DEN from SFO prior to my flight on it to SFO. Below that is the FlightRadar24 screenshot of the flight.
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Thankfully the weather in San Francisco was also very nice this last day of 2016 and I was able to watch planes from the International Terminal much like I did during my Thanksgiving week trip.
Below are some photos of some of the planes I saw at SFO.
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At about 2pm I noticed a Hawaiian Air A330 departing Oakland off in the distance. I did a check on what flight this could be and it turned out to be a flight to Denver. Seeing as Hawaiian Air is the airline the Oakland Raiders use for charters this made sense. I then remembered the final Denver Broncos game of the 2016 season was in fact against the Raiders in Denver on January 1st...tomorrow...and I' d be in Denver! A further search of the web confirmed tickets were available for a modest price since Denver was not in the playoffs. A call to my sister in Denver confirmed she would like to go to the game so I bought us a couple tickets using my phone. We were all set.
Below is my very distant photo of N379HA departing OAK before turning east for Denver. Below that is a link to the FlightRadar24 page showing that flight plus a few others operated by N379HA during the time.
After a nice day of watching planes, it was time to head over to Terminal 1 for my Frontier Airlines flight to DEN. The wait at TSA was nearly non-existant so I pretty much breezed through. I decided to get a bread bowl of chowder and set up by the window so I could watch planes for the little while it would still be daylight.
Before long it was dark and I was tracking my inbound Frontier flight on my phone.
Below is my photo of N216FR arriving gate B21 at SFO prior to my flight to DEN. Below that is the FlightRadar24 screenshot of the flight.
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