I love when the planets align in my favor and let me put together a quick trip on relatively short notice. In a couple of weeks I’m off on what will be a Plane Spotter’s dream weekend / mileage run.
First, it’s a 4-segment out bound trip from home to Seattle. In the middle of my 4 United segment day is a 10 hour layover in Los Angeles which can only mean one thing: Walking from the airport to In-N-Out, grab lunch to go (Animal style of course, or maybe the rumored Monkey style???) and walk down to my favorite spotting place at LAX: The thresholds of Runways 24L and 24R where it’s easy to capture approaching aircraft seconds before touching down. Most people will stay near the In-N-Out, but a short walk westward takes you to a different perspective. The spot is is capable of producing gems such as these:
After spending several hours at LAX, it’ll be off on a 2 segment hop to Seattle for a press event the following day. Afterwards it will be off to Everett, Washington and Paine Field for 2 uninterrupted days of plane spotting Boeing’s latest creations. I’ve never been to ‘PAE’ before, but I know I’m in for a treat. All I need is for the weather to reasonable (i.e. no Hurricanes or Blizzards) and I’ll be a happy camper….food, sleep, showers are all optional amenities at that point.
Once I force myself to leave Everett, it will be another 4 segments worth of flights on United that will take the better part of a day, but it will let me touch the West, South and East Coast of the US and come home with approximately 7500 “PQMs”. So not only do I come home with hundreds, if not thousands of new photos, I take a big chunk out of the miles I need to renew status for next year.
Can you think of a better way to spend 4 days? 🙂
Sounds fantastic and four well spend days.
What do you do for living? Gotta be working for LH, right?
Nope, not on LH’s payroll! 🙂
Very nice! I was just in Seattle and you’ll never guess which plane I spotted (well, knowing me you probably will, but it was still very exciting!). I’ll post pics soon.
then it must have been a Cubana IL62M?? Thats the only option that makes sense
Sounds like a great way to spend a weekend – can’t wait to see the photos!