Spotting from Schiller Park - Part I

 After the air show, the traffic returned to the normal pattern which meant I could go catch them at the Schiller Park Metra Station.  I'll have to say, this is probably my favorite place to spot anywhere (so far).  It's a spot where I can get all sorts of different angles and most of the foreign airlines.

First up was a Finn Air A330 coming in from Helsinki.

It was raining when I started at the station but it looked like it would clear very soon.  So I braved through it.

I think O'Hare may be the capital of the 787s but I'm not sure.

This United 787 was coming in from Frankfurt.

An All NIppon Airways 777 coming in from Narita.

A United 737 coming in from Fort Lauderdale.

An Emirates 777 coming in from Dubai.

This Southwest 737 was coming in from Nashville but it made me think of a thought exercise.  If they needed a 737 at O'Hare, how far would it have to fly from Midway to get there.  The two airports are 15 miles apart.  It turns out, there is a flight like that and it is 66 planned miles.

A 737 coming in from Fort Myers.

An American A319 coming in from LaGuardia.

A 757 coming in from somehwere.

A United 787 coming in from Haneda Airport in Tokyo.

Another angle.

A Lot 787 coming in from Krakow.

An Aer Lingus A330 coming in from Dublin.

This Air France A350 was coming in from Paris.

Delta's A220 from LaGuardia.

An Air Canada E175 coming in from Montreal.

A 787 belonging to Royal Jordanian.

This one was coming in from Amman.

The KLM 787 from Amsterdam.

Another angle.

a 767 coming in from Heathrow.

I liked the trails on this one.

It was a Swiss Air 777 coming in from Zurich.

An All Nippon Airways 787 from Narita.

An American 737 from Dallas.

An American 787 from Athens.

Another angle.

The Spirit in the Sky coming from Myrtle Beach.

A 747 belonging to Cargo Lux.  I love the black nose.

This one was coming in from Zhengzhou via Anchorage.

A Southwest 737 from Orlanda.

A DASH8 from Toronto.

A United 737 from Cozumel.

A Sun Country 737 from White Plains.

And an American 787 from Heathrow.

A Trip to O'Hare

So last Saturday I decided to head over to O'Hare.  I wasn't expecting to catch anything special, just liek the variety of planes I can catch there versus here.

First up was an AeroMexico 737 coming from Mexico City.

It was followed by an E170 coming in from Cleveland.

This American Airlines E175 was arriving from Nashville.

An American CRJ-700 coming in front Harrisburg.

A Spirit A319 coming in from Cancun.

This was a Cessna Citation coming in from Telluride, Colorado.

An E145 coming in from Champaign, Illinois.

This was pretty cool.  The Virginia Wolf Livery coming in from Cancun.

An Austrian 777 coming in from Vienna.

A Southwest 737 coming in from Austin.

And this E175 was arriving from Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City.

I was not expecting to see any special livery, but this 100th Anniversary KLM 787 was coming in from Amsterdam.

An American CRJ from St. Louis.

This was another unexpected livery, a Lot 787 coming in from Warsaw.

An American 737 arriving from LAX.

It was followed by a 737 from Denver.

And another 737.  This one coming in from Fort Lauderdale.

And this 787 was coming in from London.

Another angle of that.

It was cool to catch this British Airways A350-1000 coming in from Heathrow.

Another angle of that.

This 777 belonging to Eva Air was coming in from Taipei, Taiwan.

An American 787 coming in from Dublin.

Interestingly enough, I caught this plane the last time I was here.

This 777 was arriving from Tokyo-Narita airport.

I think this is a pretty cool livery.  It is an Eithiad 787 coming in from Abu Dubai.

An American 737 coming in from San Diego.

This is another cool one.  I wish I saw these here.  An Aer Lingus A330 coming in from Dublin.

This Spirit Airlines A321 was arriving from Orlando.

This was an A321neo coming in from Cancun.

A Southwest 737 coming in from Fort Lauderdale.

This American A320 was arriving from Philadelphia.

I'm actually surprised that there isn't another Middle Eastern carrier in Detroit.  I'm not sure which one would come here but I wouldn't mind seeing another.  This Qatar 777 was coming from Doha.

A Spirit A320 coming in from Myrtle Beach.

This American A321 was coming in from Las Vegas.

An A319 coming in from Eagle, Colorado.

A United 787.

This one was arriving from Munich.

An American A321 from Denver.

I was kind of surprised seeing this one.

This Delta 757 was coming in from Atlanta.

A Swiss Air 777 coming in from Zurich.

This was another cool one to catch.

While it was coming on this leg from Dallas.  It started in Narita.

Then it flew to Anchorage.  Then it went to Dallas.  In this shot it was landing in Chicago.

And my last one for the day was an Iberia A330 from Madrid.