Here’s the trip report of my flight from Kansas City homeward bound to Denver on July 2, 2024.

Highlights:

From the Avis Rental Car Center: Southwest Airlines Boeing 73779P arriving from Chicago Midway (MDW) as SWA4745 (Registration No. #N7855A) (0:00)

From Inside the Airport

American Airlines Airbus A319115 sitting at Gate A8 before it takes off to Philadelphia (PHL) as AAL2467 (Registration No. #N90024) (0:19)

Welcome to Kansas City, Missouri. This is our plane back to Denver. This plane, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 as UAL1840 (Registration No. #N17337), from United Airlines, will take us home to Denver, Colorado! (0:25)

American Airlines plane sitting at its gate (1:03)

Delta Air Lines plane sitting at its gate, B41, awaiting to fly to Omaha later this morning! (1:08)

Onboard and settled into 14A. (1:19)

For today’s inflight entertainment on the screen in front of my seat, I chose the airplane map! It’s the most fun thing to watch on the airplane, other than the scenery from the window! (1:23)

Taxiing out of the gate and to the runway. (1:28)

Seeing from my window a Delta Air Lines Boeing 7379GP sitting at Gate B40 before it later took off to Atlanta (ATL) as DAL2805 (Registration No. #N951DX) (1:42)

American Airlines Boeing 737824 taking for takeoff to Omaha (OMA) as AAL628R (Registration No. #N830NN) (1:56)

Takeoff from Kansas City and climb out (2:16)

Turn west from Missouri into Kansas (5:19)

Flying past Topeka (6:30)

Flying over Manhattan, Kansas and Junction City, Kansas (6:49)

Flying over the Great Plains of Central Kansas (6:57)

Flying over clouds over Western Kansas (7:04)

Start of initial descent into Denver over Western Kansas (7:09)

Crossing into the Mountain Time Zone and then entering Colorado (7:27)

Descending over the Colorado Eastern Plains (7:41)

First site of the Rocky Mountains (7:46)

Aurora Reservoir and entering the Denver Metro Area (8:03)

Final Descent into Denver (8:10)

Touchdown into Denver International Airport (10:00)

Taxiing to Gate (11:57)

Seeing a United Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 taxiing for takeoff to Pittsburgh (PIT) as UAL1522 (Registration No. #N47332) heading the opposite direction and preparing for takeoff. (12:08)

Pulling into gate. Our gate is Gate A26.
Denver is a large United Airlines hub. Operating from Concourse A and exclusively in Concourse B, United has the largest market share in Denver. Denver’s status as a United Airlines hub dates back to the old Stapleton International Airport days! (12:28)

One last look at plane! (12:49)