Journey to Muscat: Morning Flight to New York
B ecause the flight from Minneapolis arrived at approximately 11:00 in the evening — and because the morning flight to New York was scheduled to depart at 6:00 — it really did not make much sense to me to grab a hotel room for what at most would be a stay of five hours or so; so I decided to work on my laptop computer at Washington Dulles International Airport through the night.
The Embraer ERJ-145 (A) aircraft had no premium class cabin; and I was seated on the left side of the aircraft with the single seats — so I had both an aisle and a window seat. There were only 26 passengers on this aircraft, which can seat 50 people.
The interior of the aircraft appeared to be in rough shape:
These are the bulkhead seats across the aisle from where I sat aboard the regional jet aircraft. Much of the interior of this aircraft looked quite ratty. Photograph ©2015 by Brian Cohen.
It was dark throughout the short flight of less than an hour in duration; but the sun was trying to peak through the clouds as it was rising over the horizon…
Dawn breaks over an icy New York just prior to landing. Photograph ©2015 by Brian Cohen.
…and I started to see glimpses of my original home: Brooklyn.
Flatbush Avenue is one of the longest and busiest streets in Brooklyn and connects to Queens at its southern terminus over the Marine Parkway Bridge in the foreground; and it connects to Manhattan at its northern terminus over the Manhattan Bridge. Photograph ©2015 by Brian Cohen.
The straight vertical line of lights in the distance is Rockaway Parkway in Brooklyn; and in the foreground is the Rockaways. The tall buildings of Manhattan can be seen in the background. Photograph ©2015 by Brian Cohen.
The Cross Bay Bridge, which connects Cross Bay Boulevard to the Rockaways. Photograph ©2015 by Brian Cohen.
The A Train on its way through the Rockaways. Photograph ©2015 by Brian Cohen.
Photograph ©2015 by Brian Cohen.
The flight was uneventful; and all that was served was coffee, which I politely refused — and thus ended the first leg of my journey to Muscat…
All photographs ©2015 by Brian Cohen.
