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.
 

A Stop at O'Hare

 After catching my ship, my mom suggested we go to Chicago.  When an opportunity like that opens, I'm going to take it.  I had my doubt when I hit some construction traffic just south of Holland but I soldiered on.  Then I hit some more construction traffic as we passed through Indiana.  There was a little more as I got on the freeway that would take me to O'Hare.  After some frustration, I made it to my destination of Gateway Road and it was worth it.

I nearly missed this Ethiad Airlines 787 as it was arriving from Dubai but then I remembered that I could probably use the little lens that was already on my camera.  Unfortunately, I didn't have a good angle with the building in front of me for this shot.  Oh well, at least I can see the plane and it has a pretty cool livery.

I wasn't able to catch the tail number on this one but it was an E-145 belonging to American Eagle.

It was followed by a United Airlines 787 coming in from Munich.

An E175 coming in from St. Louis.

This 787 was arriving from Athens.

I was happy to see this 747 coming in from Taipei.  If I had arrived about 30 minutes sooner, I could have caught a Lufthansa 747.

An E175 coming in from San Antonio.

Followed by a CRJ-200 from Dayton.

I don't see too many of these.  A Delta CRJ-900 from Minneapolis.

This American Airlines 787 was arriving from Dallas-Fort Worth.

I don't think I've ever seen this livery before.  A DHL 777 coming in from Frankfurt.

A United 737 coming in from Minneapolis.

And a CRJ-700 coming in from Columbus.

Followed by a CRJ-200 from South Bend.

An American 787 coming in from Dublin.

Followed by a United 787 also coming in from Dublin.

This 747 was arriving from Narita.

An E170 from Savannah.

Another plane that I don't see all that often.  A Spirit Airlines A320 from Myrtle Beach.

I was happy to see this A350-1000 coming in from Heathrow.

A United 777 from San Francisco.

And a United 737 from Tampa.

A 777 coming in from Narita.

A United CRJ-700 from Knoxville.

Another E145 that I couldn't catch the tail number for.

A CRJ-200 from Asheville, North Carolina.

Southwest usually flies out of Midway.  I think they ran out of space there, so they started to fly out of O'Hare as well.  This particular plane was coming back from Fort Lauderdale.

An Aer Lingus A330 coming in from Dublin.

An E175 coming in from Newark.

I was happy to see an A220.  This one was arriving from LaGuardia.

An SAS A330 from Copenhagen.

This was an A321Neo coming in from Cincinnati.

And a Delta A320 from Atlanta.

This Emirates 777 was coming in from Dubai.

Another E145.

A Qatar 777 coming in from Doha, Qatar.

If I had been planespotting in Detroit on Thursday, I would have seen this exact plane.  It was coming in from Amman.  It was happy to see this one since I haven't seen the Royal Jordanian in a while.

I was really happy to see a 757 in livery other than Delta.  This particular one was arriving from Denver.

A Southwest 737 coming in from Las Vegas.

An E170 from somewhere.

And I ended the day with another livery I haven't seen before.  This plane was coming in from Wilmington, Ohio which I think is down by the Snake Mound.

I spent a little more than an hour at O'Hare and I saw 41 planes.  I say that is a pretty good day.