Los Angeles to Dallas on the A321 EOW

This is a review of the flight from Los Angeles to Dallas on the A321 EOW and some of the surroundings.

In my 50 or so flights around the US every year almost exclusively on American, the predominance of the flights are on the A321 and the Boeing 737-800.

Sometimes we fly the A320 and the A319 and then of course the smaller planes on some of the less busy routes but these 2 are the main passenger carriers.

https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/experience/planes/planes.jsp

Boarding the plane just behind an official looking gentleman.

My seat was above the engine. I prefer to sit where I have a good view of the ground. I have sat in row 33 or 34 before if I wasn’t able to get a seat forward enough just for the view, but I never sit over the wing.

This view with the engine is okay, I prefer to be at least one row further forward.

My priority status allows me free choice of where to sit once the flight is booked. Here I am in row 14. These seats have the pop down cell phone holder in the seat back. A clever device.

The safety card on board. It is always a good thing to glance at the card, We often fly over the sea to Florida or New York of Boston or LA so I always check the escape routes once more.

The card was issued in February 2022 so nothing much has changed in the last 2 years.

Taxiing past the iconic LAX Theme building. It is now more than 60 years old and the restaurant and viewing platform are not open anymore ( the last time I looked)

Here we are just about to move onto the runway for take off.

Views of the airport on take off. There has been a lot of construction at LAX over the past few years and the terminals are getting better all the time. LAX has a really lovely international terminal.

(Now if only they could do something about the access roads traffic )

And then you fly out over the beach and the sea. Views of Venice beach and in the distance the Santa Monica pier. The inlet is Marina Del Ray.

Once comfortably on the way I glanced at the Inflight Entertainment and Information card. It includes highlights about the entertainment system on board. All the latest movies, tv shows and music, as well as details about drinks and snacks available on board.

The staff bring around the drinks cart. I invariably get a cup of hot tea (with cream and sugar) and cookies or pretzels.

And then within 3 hours it is time for the landing in Dallas/Fort Worth.

These planes are busy. My flight was going back to Las Vegas within about 40 minutes.

And the last part of your trip is the baggage carousel. We were on flight AA1372 from LAX and this is how it is displayed on the screen at baggage.

So ends another smooth, successful flight around the United States. There are nearly 5,000 passenger flights in the air at any one time in the United Sates and almost all of them pass off without any incidents.

Google says on average about 45,000 flights take off in the US every day. That is more than 1,300,000 flights per month.

I hope you enjoy every hour you spend in a plane this year, it is still amazing that we are able to fly so easily.