Blue skies and fluffy white clouds ... and spots on the porthole — Aboard UA4660.

That's quite the thunderhead ... but we have a smooth flight — Aboard UA4660.

Uneventful Flight

September 5, 2021 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 91 °F

That about describes our flight … once our winged-chariot was swapped out and we got off the ground. The problem? Too much weight for the CRJ … passengers and bags.

At first they were looking for volunteers to jump to the next flight … with quite a generous offer that we might have taken. But then they rescinded that and found another solution. In the end, what I think happened was that they had another aircraft going to IAH, so they left the bags on the original aircraft and put us on the second one.

Despite our delayed departure — by about 30 minutes — we were on the ground at IAH shortly after our original scheduled arrival of 3:25p.

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