Alaska Airlines Boeing 737

Taking off from Vancouver.

YVR Vancouver Airport Runways

Vancouver airport. Climbing out to the north then turning east over the city.

Air Canada Airbus

Decent shot of an Air Canada A319 taking off from wet runway in Vancouver.

Leaving YVR

Climbing out of Vancouver aboard an Embraer E75. Very impressive winglets on these aircraft. The Embraer guys who checked out Airplane-Blog after this post, will think I have something against these aircraft. I don't. In fact, as a passenger they are tremendously comfortable. However - it does seem the Embraer has reliability problems. The aircraft in this picture is not the Embraer we were supposed to be on - it was grounded for mechanical reasons in Edmonton - and this flight was an hour late. At the end of this flight the overhead bin a couple of rows up was finally opened with a lot of force - and a BMW key! Maybe just bad luck?