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Yes fortunately my father made it back safely Monday. A6-EUM on 569 from BLR-DXB and A6-EVE (both my parents were on this exact reg Feb 2024) on EK225....

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Thanks for reading my TR yflyer. Really appreciate it.

Weather was good except for Saturday but it's Hawaii, a mixed bag of everything is...

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Overall thoughts on United and the trip?

United scored a very good deal especially to fly a Boeing 777-300ER to Honolulu. The 777-300ER that...

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Lavatory visit. United Airlines like most carriers I've flown on do a great job of making sure the lavatories are clean.



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Explored more of the IFE.

Lots of movies onboard












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Before my 2 hour doze off, I made it a point to also check out the rest of the IFE









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I checked out the Flight path 3D maps again.

Autoplay mode. If you want to see the ETA, the map would pause.



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The GE90 engines started up and flaps retracted and we were soon enough on our way back to SFO.







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Here is my Boeing 777-300ER in the old Continental livery. A flip flop I was expecting from the last trip when 2025 it was outbound old livery, inbound...

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Flight: United Airlines flight UA214
Route: Honolulu - San Francisco
Aircraft: N2333U (Boeing 777-300ER, 9.1 years old)
Livery: Old...

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As we're on the last day Tuesday, I will be leaving tonight, but the pictures on this post will be Diamond Head and scenic related.

Diamond...

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We got back to Waikiki at around 3PM with another 3.5 hours to enjoy daylight and sunshine on this gorgeous Monday




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Our next and final stop of the tour was Ford Island.

When the tour bus crosses Ford Island especially the bridge, we cannot take pictures...

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Monday was the last actual full day in Hawaii and I decided to cover Pearl Harbor, which I did back in July 2013, but missed out last trip. I had breakfast...

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Waikiki Beach past Golden Hour, around 6PM itself the last 30 minutes before sunset








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My last few stops were in Downtown Honolulu itself to wrap up a peaceful and relaxing Sunday with some but not a whole lot of traffic.

Izumo...

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After spending time at the Dole plantation, I drove up to Downtown Honolulu, which was about a 30 minute drive. Covered 3 places. The first one was Honolulu...

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Sunday weather was much better and well in some cases maybe an isolated thunderstorm or 2 couldn't be ruled out.

My idea was to go to the...

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As Saturday rolled around, much of the weather was gloomy and overcast in Waikiki and Oahu. Started the morning around 9AM having a breakfast buffet at...

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Getting the checked bag was very quick and instead of heading to the shuttle shared by many folks, the shuttle company hired a car since we came to know...