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Welcome to part three of three of our aviation meet-up in Phoenix, Arizona. Part one was all about the travelling my brother and I did and that days events. If you have not checked out the first two parts yet, please go check that out before reading this.
Day 3: Well, it is day three of the three day trip. We all know what that means, go home day. Go home day was not as bad as I thought it would. Dillon and I got a good night’s sleep that night since we knew that we would be traveling all day that day. We got up around 7:45 am local time to get ready and to leave the hotel by 8 am local. We got up and got dressed and finished packing up the rest of our clothes. Once we got the rest of out clothes packed up, we headed downstair. Once downstairs, we walked out of the hotel, down the sidewalk so we can cross the street and go up to the airtrain that would take us back to terminal four. We finally get to cross the street and we arrive at the at the airtrain station. We wait less than five minutes for the train to arrive and board. It was a quick 5 minutes train ride to terminal four. Once we got to terminal four, we got off the train and went all the way downstairs so we can get our boarding passes. We were flying Southwest on the return leg, so we went to where Southwest is on the bottom floor to get our boarding passes. It was a smooth and easy process as we only had to put in our confirmation code and print our tickets. Once we did that, we went back up to the main floor and went through security. Since our plane departed from the “C” concourse, we elected to go to the “C” concourse security to limit our walking distance. After ten minutes, we finally made it through security. Going through security was easy and smooth and we had no problems. Now that we had made it through security, it was time to find our gate and to get some quick breakfast. Our gate was C7 (Charlie 7) for our flight to Little Rock. Once we found our gate, Dillon sat down and I went across the way to get some water and juice for us. That took all of ten minutes to do and then I went back across the way to sit down with Dillon and enjoy my drink. About an hour later, we started boarding for our flight to Little Rock. On today’s flight, our aircraft was a Boeing 737-700 in the new Southwest Heart Livery. Dillon and I had A boarding slots, numbers 20 and 21. We got the board the aircraft quickly but had to sit at the gate for quite some time because an inbound flight was late and some passengers on that flight needed to connect and be on our flight. After about twenty minute delay, we finally pushed back from the gate. The flight was mostly full with quite a few empty seats. Once pushed back from the gate, we taxied to runway 7L for our departure. Since we were on the east side of the airport our taxi took some time. Not only did the taxi take some time but actually taking off took some time. Phoenix is a busy airport with a lot of traffic so naturally, we had to wait our turn in line. It was only a short, probably around five minutes, but after that we lined up on the runway and took off into the somewhat cloudy Phoenix sky. Once airborne, we hit some clouds and had some very light chop. Shortly thereafter, we climbed above the clouds and could see the bright and sunny sky. Within 20 minutes, we were at our cruising altitude of 39,00 feet or FL390. Nothing much happened throughout the flight as I had a water and we were served both crackers and cookies. The seat belts continued to stay on as the ride did not get any smoother for the two hour and ten minute flight. After an hour and a half of an uneventful flight, Dillon noticed two younger boys sitting across from us. We got talking and after a very short conversation, we decided to give them some JetBlue pins that Brett Smith, one of the guys that was at the main event and works for JetBlue. Upon reaching this agreement, we picked some wings out for them and I asked them if they would want them. They accepted them with great smiles and said thank you. I am glad Dillon and I did this because I always want to spread aviation as best as I can. I believe that that memory will be with them forever and ever. After that little priceless moment, nothing happened for the rest of the hour flight in cruise. About twenty minutes left in the flight, we started our descent into Little Rock. Shortly thereafter, we made a firm, not hard, landing on runway 22L. I am not sure why 22L because that is the furthest runway from where Southwest parks. It didn’t matter as we still made it to the gate ten minutes early. We parked at gate ten and two or three minutes later we started to deplane the aircraft. Since Dillon and I were near the front, we were one of the first people off of the airplane. Once we got off the airplane, we headed straight for the bathroom before we headed home. After using the bathroom, we walked out of the terminal and down some stairs to the main part of the lobby. We walked all the way around to the other side of the terminal to some escalators and went up those and across a walkway into the parking garage. We walked down the row of cars and finally found our car in spot 25. After finding our car, not much happened as we put our luggage away and drove home. This concludes part three of three of the Blue Skies and A Tailwind meetup blog posts. If you have not read parts one and two, please read those before reading this part. We hope you enjoyed this blog series of our trip. Be on the lookout for another blog soon.
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