15.2.05 AA1274 ORD-LAX N957AN Boeing 737-800 STD: 10.17 Pushback:10.20 ATD: 10.31 STA: 12.45 ETA: 12.55 Good morning everyone! I woke up at 6.55 and I took a shower and then I had breakfast. After that I decided to check on our flight status and it was on-time and it was incoming from Miami. At 8.15 we left the house and started to drive to the airport. We sat in some traffic but not too much. We arrived at O?Hare at 8.47. We parked and as we were going to the underground walkway, a business lady who I think was talking on her cellphone tripped over something, screamed then fell in a puddle of water. Her butt, purse and her suitcase got wet. After that whole incident, we made it to the underground tunnel and then took the elevator down and walked across then up and we arrived at the Delta Baggage Claim. I checked in the day before but never printed out my boarding pass so I freaked out a little bit and I told my mom that I didn?t do anything but it was ok I was able to print out another one. Our gate today is H11B. We made our way to Security and it wasn?t bad at all. I think we stood in line for about 5-10 minutes. We arrived at the gate and they all went to go get some food while I stayed behind and watched the stuff. I wandered over to the other side of the terminal and watched some planes land and soon we are about to board. We started boarding at 9.47 and pushback was at 10.20. Our pilot was Al Hayward and the First Officer was a woman named Cheryl. I was in seat 16F and my family was in 15D-F. 2 people from Ohio sat next to me. We also had screaming children onboard too. The pilot said that we?d climb to FL280 with a flying time of 3 hours, 59 minutes. We taxied to RW32L by A15, B, M2, M, T, T10, 32L. We took off at 10.31. The movie shown on today?s flight is: Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement. We had some light chop on climb out. The weather in LAX was Mostly Cloudy, 51ºF, visibility 10mi and an arrival time of 12.45. The pilot said that we will have a 85kt headwind. American?s Buy On Board snacks were offered. I didn?t buy any but my mom did. I just decided to get pretzels. We climbed during the flight to a higher level. As we climbed, we had some turbulence some 2 hours, 20 minutes from touchdown. The seatbelt sign was turned on and we climbed again. After Princess Diaries 2 ended, they showed the next movie, The Notebook. Soon, we had a great view of the Rocky Mountains! The pilot came on and told us that we had just left the Durango area and the weather was Broken clouds with a 7 miles visibility and it was 61ºF and we were approaching the 4-corners area. Soon we had great views of the Grand Canyon. We started our descent at 12.28 Pacific Time. We had some light turbulence on descent. On approach, I saw a Southwest 737 on finals for 8R and I also saw the Hollywood sign. The gear came down at 12.52 and we landed at 12.55 on 25L. As we were rolling out, I saw the Air China Dreamliner 747 and John Travolta?s jet. It was pretty cool. We hold short on our way to 46A and we hold short on taxiway N for a few aircraft waiting to depart. We taxi to 46A by N, C, C9 and we arrive at 1301. 17.2.05 AA1194 LAX-ORD N955AN Boeing 737-800 STD:1130 Pushback: 1221 ATD: 1319 ETA: 1729 ATA: 1835 Today, I would be going home after a wonderful wedding and the warm weather. I woke up at 6.30 at the Super 8 Motel in San Bernadino. I ate a quick breakfast and checked my email. We left around 7.30 to go pick up a family friend who was heading home to Melbourne, Australia. We sat in lots of traffic and eventually got there around 1020. That?s after we dropped off the rental car and took the shuttle over. We said goodbye to our family friend as he was taking United. We checked in and went to security. We went to the shortest line while everyone else was standing in the long lines. We went to go get food and mom went to get Burger King for the family while I got a Grande Caramel Frap. I ate a cheeseburger too. I then saw our plane arrive a few minutes later. Our plane was inbound from Chicago and was soon to return back to Chicago. Our departure time was changed from 11.30 to 12.00N. I said to myself ?ok its only 30 minutes no big deal.? We boarded at 11.30 and I sit here in 16F waiting for departure. The pilot comes on and tells us that there is an ATC Delay and that is because O?Hare can only handle 88 aircraft an hour. Our wheels-up time is 1251. We would have choppy weather ½ the way and our pushback time is 12.00N Our flight time today is 3 hours, 25 minutes, our new ETA is 18.16 and our cruising altitude was FL370. It was mostly cloudy outside with a temperature of 20ºF. We pushed back at 12.15 as there was another aircraft needing the gate and we taxied to 7L. I saw the Air Tahiti Nui plane and a China Eastern A346. We sat on the B taxiway for a while and then the engine?s shut down. 30 minutes later they were started up and we taxied to 25R and then the engines shut down again. The pilot came on and told us that they would be switching runways after a few more aircraft were cleared to land and then departures would start up on the other side. It started to rain but it wasn?t much. It was just a passing sprinkle. We took off after an American Eagle Saab 340, United Express, Japan Airlines 747-400, and a LAN 767. We lifted off at 13.19 with a new ETA of 18.45. We had some moderate chop and we climbed to FL350. The pilot said that we?d be arriving at the gate at 19.00. Nothing much happened during the flight except some old lady spilled alcohol and coke on my shoes. American was passing out there snacks but ran out as they got to my row. I went to the bathroom and I noticed that AA only had 29 boxes for a flight of 100+ people. But they had 98 things of pretzels though. We had 67 local passengers and 45 connecting passengers. The pilot came on again and told us that we would be landing to the west and that we would start our descent shortly. We started our descent at 18.05. There were 4 people traveling to Paris CDG and they missed their connection. Many passengers were booked on later flights while some had to go see agents. The flaps came down at 18.27 and we over flew O?Hare airport and then turned to O?Hare. The gear came down at 18.33 and we landed at 6.35 on 22R. We exit the runway by the United Gates and taxi all the way around the airport and over the bridge to the K gates. We got to K18 at 6.43. While waiting to de-board, I saw a Royal Jordanian A340, Kuwait Airways A340, Air India 747 and a Lufthansa 747. We got our bags at Baggage Claim 6 and we got home at 7.45p Photos: http://www.airliners.net/discussions/trip_reports/read.main/54750/ ===== Leo/ORD __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page ? Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com