My first spotting trip for 2020 is at (no surprise!) Portland. I had to drive up to pick up my aunt and uncle who were coming home from California as they've been out of town since after Christmas. My dad was originally going to pick them up, but he then had to skip town because my sister recently accepted a job offer in Utah, so he accompanied her to help her get set up. So that left me as the only option to make this airport run! As usual, I took this as an opportunity to make a spotting trip out of it, my 50th time plane-spotting at Portland International Airport!
There wasn't really anything exciting or noteworthy on this trip as I had originally intended to drive up a little bit earlier to catch a few things I would've loved to have photograph, but I decided to sleep in after a long week of work! I'll definitely be planning on a few spotting trips to Portland this year as there are several inaugural flights I'd like to catch! I've already mentioned British Airways, which has already announced flights between Portland and London-Heathrow starting June 1.
I will most-likely come up to photograph Delta Air Lines' inaugural flight to Tokyo-Haneda on March 28, which will be replacing the Tokyo-Narita route; the reasoning behind why I want to see this inaugural is because Delta will be operating the Airbus A330-200 on this route and I have yet to photograph one with my DSLR camera! Another new and recent announcement came from JSX (formerly known as JetSuiteX), as they will commence five daily flights between Portland and Seattle-Boeing Field, which is effectively picking up where the now-defunct SeaPort Airlines left off! With JetSuiteX having just re-branded into JSX, this would be a great opportunity to catch one of their ERJ-135 (and possibly an ERJ-145!) in their new livery! JSX starts flights between Portland and Seattle on April 2. Already quite a few inaugural flights to look forward to!
Portland (PDX) 50
Preview:
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| WestJet Encore (d/b/a WestJet) Bombardier DHC-8-402 Dash 8 Q400 (C-FUWE) arriving on 28R as WEN3628 from Calgary. |
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| United Parcel Service - UPS Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (N294UP) parked on the cargo ramp. Arrived early this morning from Louisville as UPS974 and scheduled to return to Louisville around midnight tonight as UPS991. |
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| Delta Air Lines Airbus A320-212 (N367NW) arriving on 28R as DAL1140 from Los Angeles. |
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| Learjet 31A/ZR (N36BL) taxiing to the FBO ramp after arriving on 28R from San Diego/El Cajon. |
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| United Airlines Airbus A320-232 (N418UA) arriving on 28R as UAL2415 from Newark. |
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| Southern Air (d/b/a Amazon Prime Air) Boeing 737-83N/BCF (N5153A) arriving on 28L as SOO3609 from Houston-Intercontinental. |
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| Delta Air Lines Boeing 767-332/ER (N1604R) taxiing for departure as DAL69 for Tokyo-Narita. |
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| Horizon Air (d/b/a Alaska Airlines) Bombardier DHC-8-402 Dash 8 Q400 (N441QX) in the University of Alaska at Fairbanks Nanooks livery taxiing for departure as QXE2575 for Missoula. |
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| DAL69 departing on 28L for Tokyo-Narita. Soon, we'll see A330-200s will replace the 767s and flights will go to Haneda instead of Narita. |
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| QXE2575 departing on 28L for Missoula. |
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| Horizon Air (d/b/a Alaska Airlines) Embraer ERJ-170-200LR E-175LR (N650QX) departing on 28L as QXE2818 for Dallas-Love. |
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| Ameriflight Beechcraft C99 Airliner (N104BE) arriving on 28L as AMF1926 from Crescent City. |
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| Alaska Airlines Airbus A320-214 (N847VA) arriving on 28L as ASA1153 from Santa Ana. |
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| Ameriflight Beechcraft C99 Airliner (N997SB) arriving on 28L as AMF4242 from Crescent City. |
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| Alaska Airlines Airbus A320-214 (N853VA) departing on 28L as ASA580 for Santa Ana. |
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| Compass Airlines (d/b/a American Eagle) Embraer ERJ-170-200LR E-175LR (N208AN) departing on 28L as CPZ6088 for Los Angeles. |
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| Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 (N8510E) arriving on 28L as SWA2904 from Oakland. This is the flight my aunt and uncle were on! |
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| American Airlines Airbus A321-231 (N159AN) arriving on 28L as AAL1316 from Dallas/Fort Worth. |
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| Horizon Air (d/b/a Alaska Airlines) Bombardier DHC-8-402 Dash 8 Q400 (N421QX) sporting the Horizon retro livery departing on 28L as QXE2346 for Spokane. |
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| Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-8H4 (N8620H) taxiing for departure as SWA2972 for Phoenix Sky Harbor. |
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| American Airlines Airbus A319-132 (N827AW) arriving on 28L as AAL1442 from Chicago O'Hare. |
