Review of American Airlines flight from Phoenix to Minneapolis in Economy

Greetings, Everyone!
I thought I would share a few photos from a flight home to Minneapolis I recently took with American Airlines. I began my day that day in Sacramento and was planning on flying home on UA (SMF-SFO-MSP) but had received a text early in the morning (around 5:30am) indicating that my 9:00am flight to SFO had been cancelled. UA automatically re-booked me on the later departure out of SMF to SFO that day, but as I was nervous that that flight was also going to be cancelled, I called UA to discuss any other options. I ended up being re-booked on American and was re-routed through PHX.
Even though my first flight to PHX was not scheduled to leave for a few hours, I ended up grabbing some breakfast at my hotel, and then heading to the airport to return my car. I spent the next few hours at SMF working through emails, until my PHX flight boarded. The flight to PHX was on newly retrofitted 737-800 with personal IFE at every seat, which was nice. I didn't take any photos from that flight as I was in a middle seat.
After arriving on-time at 3:35pm MST into PHX, I exited the aircraft to catch my connecting flight to find out that my MSP flight would depart from the adjacent gate. When I had been re-booked, I had been assigned an aisle seat in row 22, but I asked the agent if their were any window seats left. The very friendly agent ended up putting me in 7F in the bulkhead which was very nice! Very shortly after, boarding began.
View from 7F. As boarding continued, I looked around and noticed quite a few empty seats.

Boarding finished just around 4:15pm and soon the door was shut and we began to push-back.
We taxied for a few minutes around the B concourses and then crossed over to the other side of the airport for takeoff. Once we reached the runway there was no one else in front of us, and we began our takeoff roll immediately.
Views after takeoff - it was a great afternoon for flying!

Once we reached cruise altitude, the beverage and snack service began. As I was pretty hungry, I bought the cheese and fruit tray along with a red wine. Whenever I fly Delta, I normally buy the cheese and fruit tray and I found the one on American to be really good, with lots more cheese than the one served on Delta. Along with the snack and wine, I was also handed some pretzels.

The rest of the flight to MSP was un-eventful and I spent the time reading and looking out the window. I haven't flown AA in a while, and I was impressed by the quality of the flight. All in all, it was very good!

Thank you for reading!
Matthew (757Fan)