From the New York Times:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444233104577591313397549958.html?mod=e2fb

Some of my favorites (although I usually don't get window seats anymore).
1. SoCal to Chicago (Usually fly over the Grand Canyon, southeastern Utah and or Colorado mountains.

2. SoCal to Boise. Usually fly over the Sierra Mtns with views of Yosemite, Lake Tahoe and the mountain ranges of Nevada.

3. And landing to the west at Boise, Idaho. Usually get an awesome view of the Idaho mountains.

A 737 jumpseat from ANC to SEA or PDX is pretty hard to beat.

Gump

GumpAir wrote:A 737 jumpseat from ANC to SEA or PDX is pretty hard to beat.

Gump

We tell people all the time to make certain the get a seat on the right hand side going up and left down. Not to mention..."the milk run" is a pretty cool way to go. Seattle - Juneau -(sometimes Ketchikan) - Yakutat - Cordova - Anchorage. A lot of ups and downs but its sure a nice flight when you get the weather. Coast mountains in BC all the way to the fairweathers, then the Saint Elias range to the Chugach...Quite the flight IMO

AKT

X2 on the milk run. If, you're not in a hurry.

Gump

denver to san jose or sfo you get the rockies and yosemite - my personal favorite is coming in from the sw when the winds favor it - you come in over the black canyon of the gunnison

and then portland - you get hood, mt. st helens, 3 sisters, mt adams

and seattle - you get rainier

salt lake is good too - you get the wasatch

Chicago? meh. nice at night when its clear and you can see the miles and miles of suburbia lights

"the milk run" is a pretty cool way to go

...And if you plan it ahead, your likely to see 'all white' instead of splendor (Murphy...) unless it is summer. BUT, worth the risk.

lc

Jump seat from BCN to FRA. Right smack over the summit of Mont Blanc.

The ILS 19 approach into Jackson Hole, KJAC , on a crystal clear day...

Grand Canyon in early morning with sun in your windshield early fall . I do this several times a month it's close for me 20 min.

182 STOL driver wrote:Grand Canyon in early morning with sun in your windshield early fall . I do this several times a month it's close for me 20 min.

Back in the early '80's I flew 402's in the Canyon. Back when you could still go down below the rims.
I agree with your comment, the Canyon never looks the same twice.
Every flight was like the first time through.
Early Spring was nice also, with all the waterfalls (snowmelt) coming off the North Rim.

Would have been better to issue earmuffs to the rafters instead of restricting the airspace around the Canyon
Flying down inside the Canyon was pretty cool

Working in the middle east, we got some super airline flights because it's a long way from nowhere to anywhere else. One of the best took place before the age of paranoia. I was going to a conference in Atlanta and after boarding the second leg in Amsterdam, I chatted with the KLM captain. He invited me up to the front end and I rode jump seat all the way to Atlanta. Not only that, but it was crystal clear from our landfall over Newfoundland all the way to Atlanta. There was Halifax, Boston, NYC, DC... Just like a dog, I left greasy nose prints on the cockpit windows. When we landed, the co-pilot gave me the marked up ocean crossing chart with all our reporting points circled and the doodles that helped us pass the time during the crossing. Back then KLM gave you a little Delft house full of gin at the end of the flight. Nowdays, you have to pay for your second bag.

On another crossing, I flew AMS-SFO. Check the great circle route on that. No jump seat on that one, but I had a window seat as we ticked off some great moments: a hole opened up in the undercast just as we passed over my birthplace, Belfast in Northern Ireland, we passed over Iceland, Greenland, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Hudson Bay, Yellowknife NWT, Mt. St. Helens and as a bonus, a great bay tour on arrival at SFO. Definitely got my money's worth on that flight. But, the highlight was over Greenland. Usually, flying over Greenland was just a view of the stratus beneath us, but this time it was spectacularly clear.

Total geek approaching the limits of GPS coverage. This was back when the constellation didn't cover the polar regions that well.


East coast fjord and glacier


Greenland ice cap swallows 10,000ft mountains


Over the top. At this point I'm arguing with a passenger who wants me to lower my window shade so he can see a re-run of the Little Mermaid


Pack ice west of Greenland.


Mt. Saint Helens


Like they say: Without pictures, it didn't happen. This happened and I LOVED it. Despite the best efforts of the bean counters and security overlords, there's a part of long range airline travel that just can't be ruined.

YB

The final approach into Hong Kong is pretty cool, I did it 40 years ago and I remember lots of tall buildings real close.

Going into Vegas, corny as it sounds, can still be kinda neat also,if they come in almost along side the Strip.

But SeaTac to Fairbanks is the only airline flight that kept me glued to the window the entire way! Either all that country is extra big, or the airliner was flying extra low that day, it was nothing like any other commercial flight. Anybody know about that height thing? It sure wasn't any 35 k, do the winds in that part of the world make it more economical to fly lower then"normal" on that route?