July 2, 2024: United Airlines Boeing 737-79P Kansas City to Denver FULL TRIP REPORT

Here’s the trip report of my flight from Kansas City homeward bound to Denver on July 2, 2024.
Highlights:
From the Avis Rental Car Center: Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-79P arriving from Chicago Midway (MDW) as SWA4745 (Registration No. #N7855A) (0:00)
From Inside the Airport
American Airlines Airbus A319-115 sitting at Gate A8 before it takes off to Philadelphia (PHL) as AAL2467 (Registration No. #N90024) (0:19)
Welcome to Kansas City, Missouri. This is our plane back to Denver. This plane, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 as UAL1840 (Registration No. #N17337), from United Airlines, will take us home to Denver, Colorado! (0:25)
American Airlines plane sitting at its gate (1:03)
Delta Air Lines plane sitting at its gate, B41, awaiting to fly to Omaha later this morning! (1:08)
Onboard and settled into 14A. (1:19)
For today’s inflight entertainment on the screen in front of my seat, I chose the airplane map! It’s the most fun thing to watch on the airplane, other than the scenery from the window! (1:23)
Taxiing out of the gate and to the runway. (1:28)
Seeing from my window a Delta Air Lines Boeing 737-9GP sitting at Gate B40 before it later took off to Atlanta (ATL) as DAL2805 (Registration No. #N951DX) (1:42)
American Airlines Boeing 737-824 taking for takeoff to Omaha (OMA) as AAL628R (Registration No. #N830NN) (1:56)
Takeoff from Kansas City and climb out (2:16)
Turn west from Missouri into Kansas (5:19)
Flying past Topeka (6:30)
Flying over Manhattan, Kansas and Junction City, Kansas (6:49)
Flying over the Great Plains of Central Kansas (6:57)
Flying over clouds over Western Kansas (7:04)
Start of initial descent into Denver over Western Kansas (7:09)
Crossing into the Mountain Time Zone and then entering Colorado (7:27)
Descending over the Colorado Eastern Plains (7:41)
First site of the Rocky Mountains (7:46)
Aurora Reservoir and entering the Denver Metro Area (8:03)
Final Descent into Denver (8:10)
Touchdown into Denver International Airport (10:00)
Taxiing to Gate (11:57)
Seeing a United Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 taxiing for takeoff to Pittsburgh (PIT) as UAL1522 (Registration No. #N47332) heading the opposite direction and preparing for takeoff. (12:08)
Pulling into gate. Our gate is Gate A26.
Denver is a large United Airlines hub. Operating from Concourse A and exclusively in Concourse B, United has the largest market share in Denver. Denver’s status as a United Airlines hub dates back to the old Stapleton International Airport days! (12:28)
One last look at plane! (12:49)