The Sidney herald., 1956-01-12
Ny Trip From
Sidney To San
Diego By Plane
By Gene LNvno


BY Gene Levno
My first stop on a trip to Sal
Diego by Frontier Airlines from
Sidney on December 26th, wa
Glendive about 20 minutes afte
our take-off at 3:45 D. m. Gu
next stop was Miles City wher
we changed stewardesses ant
stopped only 5 minutes. The al
was quiet to Billings where w
arrived at 6:35 on time. Ou
stewardesses were changed again
The wind was quite strong out o
Billings and a few of the passen,
gers were a little upset. / hat
no trouble at all and fell asleel
right after we left Billings ant
slept again between Worland
Wyoming and Casper, our mex
two stops. A new stewardesl
again at Casper. The pilot tolC
me that we had a fifty MPH heac
wind and that Casper wasn't OF
our regular route. We couldn'
land at Riverton because of the
muddy field. We lost quite a lo'
of time because of the wind ano
the detour to Casper.
We flew at an approximate ele-
walton of 1900 feet to Salt Lake
City. The plane tossed about g
bit going over the Rockies, but
not enough to bother anyone on
board.
1 met a lot of pleasant people.
I don't believe there was a
grouchy person on the flight. If
there was, / didn't meet him.
The night was very clear except
for clouds above us. eve had run
out of snow in northern Wyo-
ming.) Salt Lake City is laid
out in stright lines. 1t is really
a beautiful scene from the air
at night. We landed there at 1890
a. m. to find the weather very
warm. The desk clerk informed
me that the last snow they'd had
was in early November, and that
didn't last long. All of our stew
ardeSSes were polite, pleasant,
courteous and with a sense of
humor. They were wonderful
all the way. At Salt Lake City
l transferred to Western Airlines
where the desk man told us of
the shortage of passenger space
because of the holidays. He said
that, if need be, they would pick
up passengers according to pur-
chase date of ticket. The Western
Airlines plane scheduled to leave
at 1855 a. m was an hour late.
The plane / was to transfer to
from Frontier, was full so / had
to wait for the next flight to Los
Angeles which wasn't until 12:40
p. m. Tuesday. There were six
of us who missed the scheduled
flight at Salt Lake City. Two
were a bit nasty about it but
claimed down shortly. Western
Airlines took us to Hotel Utah
at SIS a. m. where we were given
luxurious rooms with big soft
beds. At 1920 we were informed
that we had seats at 1890 and
they would send their limousine.
l was up at 10:45, had break
fast and spent the forenoon see
ing the city. We were picked up
at our hotel at noon.
Our plane from Sidney to Salt
Lake City was a DC3; and from
here to Los Angeles a DEG B,
4 four engine plane which was on
ime and we boarded it at 1890
slad to be under way again. 1000
ieet above Salt Lake City we
vent through heavy clouds,
.limbed to approximately $4,000
eet and flew straight to Los
Angeles at about $50 MPH.
We broke through the clouds at
100 p. m. Below we saw huge
cumulus clouds and above
hem was clear blue sky. The
randeur of the picture was
reathtaking. You could see
Tevada through breaks in the
At las we all had dinner
4 the air - champagne cocktail,
past beef, green beans, shrimp
alad, potatoes, rolls, tomatoes,
nd strawberry shortcake, which
yas all very delicious. On this
IN, too, all of the passengers
'ere most pleasant with the ex-
of one person, a blonde,
bout three years old. He seemed
!, like everyone else's dinner bet
IT than his own. At about 2:30
left the clouds behind. All
ear except for fog on the hori-
IN but you could see for miles.
t 3:18 we entered the fog and
-arted dropping little by little
LIST flying over the top of the /,
'g at about 10000 feet. Just
Dove L. A. the fog broke up al /,
'gether, and gave us a beautiful
lew. Our wheels touched at 3:43
m. Because of the delay in !
alt Lake City, there was another
ait for a plane to leave L. A. |
nd at 5:12 we were in the air y
gain. We circled L. A. and flew /
1t over the Pacific for just a !
w minutes. 1t was almost dark 1
I'd Los Angeles was Lit up like ,
Christmas tree. We landed at /
ong Beach at $40, our wheels ,
IT the runway. again at 5:32 and |
nded at San Diego at $40. My 1
for that flight. \