Скачать или смотреть TRIP REPORT - United (ERJ-145), St. Louis to Ixtapa, MX

My family has a long-standing winter tradition of renting out a condo in Ixtapa, Mexico shortly after Christmas. While I wasn't able to come along for the whole time due to work, I got a steal on this mid-week United itinerary that allowed me to sneak down for 5 days. This itinerary took me all the way from St. Louis to southern Mexico on small (50-seat) ERJ-145s, with a stop in Houston. Trips like this are becoming less and less common with the rapid retirement of 50-seat jets. In fact, looking at the timetable this year, United has upguaged the Houston-Ixtapa leg to 76-seat E175s, and many of the St. Louis-Houston flights are on larger aircraft as well. Who knows, this may have been my last international 50-seater flight...

Highlights of this trip include:

-An "emergency" overhead bin repair on the ground at STL
-A pre-sunrise takeoff from STL
-Watching sunrise while in flight
-Exploring all terminals at IAH
-Detailed footage of the unique boarding process at the newly-rebuilt terminal B (IAH)
-An international ERJ-145 flight
-Approach/landing in bad weather at ZIH
-Landing from the West at ZIH (rare)

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