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A visual of this entire trip's journey:
Total distance flown will be 2567 mi / 4132 km
This trip report's flight route between San José and Puerto Vallarta will take 3hr at distance of 1,524mi/2,453km
Welcome everyone to another trip report! This is my last flight of three that I took with AS back in May from Salt Lake City to Puerto Vallarta where I had two layovers, one in San Diego and another in San Jose where I'm starting this trip report off. This would be my first time flying AS mainline as I've only previously had experience flying 4 regional AS flights operated by SkyWest. This will give me a chance to try out there product and get a first hand experience of AS hospitality and comparing them to the likes of airlines I usually frequently fly with like AA or DL.
Let's get started now! After spending a rather short overnight layover at SJC airport I woke up from my alarm clock that I had set a few hours before departure and made my way to find my gate.
This morning's departure board. My flight is AS 1448 which shows that it's on time.
Some information about my plane:
Flight number: AS 1448
Aircraft: Boeing 737-890
Registration: N530AS
Delivered: April 15, 2010
Age: 13.7 years
Here's a view of my 737 that will be taking me down to Mexico this morning. She is configured in 12 First class, 30 Premium class and 117 Main cabin seats for a total capacity of 159 seats.
A view of the grate area before the herd of people came in.
Boarding soon was announced on time and I boarded along with group D.
My seat for the next 3 hours, 32F at the very last row of the plane.
I was quickly disappointed when I looked out the window and noticed how dirty it was. This made it a challenge appreciating the views from the outside.
Legroom was very good for standard economy. These seats offer 31" of pitch, I'm 5'9" or 176cm for reference.
I was lucky and had the middle seat unoccupied which made it feel a bit more roomier. Since I was the first to arrive at my row I got dibs on placing my book bag under the middle seat's space to make room for my legs ?.
Boarding is complete and today's flight load would be around 98% full. From the looks of it my middle empty seat was the only empty seat on the flight.
Southwest B737-700 departing for Phoenix. Flight time: 1h 31m
Alaska B737-800 arriving on a red eye flight from Honolulu. Flight time: 4h 36m
Next to us is an Alaska E175 departing for San Diego. Flight time 1h 5m
We pushed back 3 minutes ahead of schedule.
Lined up on runway 30R for takeoff.
Until next time San Jose!
After flying through the clouds we finally broke into blue skies.
They tray table is a good size and extendable.
Inflight entertainment guide.
Selection of beverages both complimentary and for purchase.
Safety card.
Worth noting that there is individual USB and universal power outlets located at each seat.
About 40 minutes into flight the FA's sprung into the cabin to conduct the drinks and snacks service.
First followed the snack cart…
Followed by the drink cart.
For snack they gave out these butter pretzels and for drinks I kindly requested for a coffee and orange juice.
I don't care what FA's say about not drinking coffee on an airplane, I still think is really good ?.
Cheers for more travel!
These pretezels were very tasty.
Flying over northern Baja California.
Flying over The Gulf of California.
Archangel Island
To make up not offering PTV's onboard, Alaska does makeup for this for having a great in-flight entertainment offering which you can easily access on your own device. Including a very good interactive map, as well as a great selection of movies and TV shows to keep you entertained on any length flight.
About an hour before arrival, to my surprise AS actually gave out pre-arrival drinks on a 3 hour flight which was surprising for a US legacy carrier. Other airlines for sure like AA or UA wouldn't have done this not even on a 4hr flight from my experience. For my dink of choice I went for a coke.
Sitting in the last row I could easily see the horizontal stabilizer.
Shortly after the service, the FA's handed out these custom declaration forms that needed to be filled out.
Shortly after the FA's began preparing cabin for landing.
La Peñita de Jaltemba
Lining up to land on runway 22.
Welcome to Puerto Vallarta! ??
We arrived at the gate 10 minutes ahead of schedule.
Being literally at the back of the plane I had to wait a good 10 minutes or so before I was able to get up and head out of the plane.
Another look at our 737.
One last look at our aircraft as we made our way to immigration. Thanks for the safe ride!
This concludes the trip report, thanks for reading!
Overall this was a great flight on Alaska. The FA's on this particular flight were awesome and showed through their expression that they wanted to be there. Cabin interior was a bit dated (you can kind of tell by the yellow lighting) and could use a touch up. However given that this was an older cabin, the seats were very well patted and very comfortable for this medium haul flight. When it comes to the inflight service on this 3 hour flight, Alaska did very well offering not just one but two drink services which makes them stand out from the rest. Only disappointment from this trip would be my dirty window which made it extremely difficult to enjoy the views outside for the entire flight.
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2 bev services on a 3h flight definitely sets AS above the rest. They even do 3 services on 5h transcons, while the US3 struggle to do 2 on similar flights.
Thanks for sharing!
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