LOW FARES, STUNNING VIEWS! RYANAIR Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 [IHW] London Stansted to Barcelona el Prat

Starting 2025 with a bang and on the right note with our 4th day trip, this time to Barcelona, the furthest we've been on a day trip. FR8214 on Saturday 18th January onboard 1 year EI-IHW. Nice to be on another Boeing 737 MAX 8-200. Stansted Airport was surprisingly busy, although considering it was a Saturday, most winter ski flights fly on a Saturday so likely the majority of the pax will have been heading to the slopes. The whole boarding process was very swift and efficent, it must have only been about 10 minutes from boarding to pushback. Though I was suprised that the Captain never gave us an announcement or any updates on the flight's progress at all.

We pushed back at bang on 07.40, with a very loud engine start, and a very quick taxi out to Runway 22 with no stopping or waiting, the Captain taxiied straight onto the runway and onto full throttle and took off at 07.51, straight into a thick layer of fog and clouds and emerged to the beautiful view of the sunrise over the clouds. It was truly stunning and I was gasping in awe behind the camera. It reminds me of the scenes we had taking off of Luton to Edingburgh on EasyJet. That's all very well, but unfortunately these clouds did not clear until the latter stages of the cruise, but there are plenty of air to air shots to compensate aswell as some light turbulence here and there.

Before we knew it, we were descending over the beautiful Pyrennes and over the city of Barcelona, before the Captain banked away from the airport in order to join the approach to Runway 24R, which was again truly stunning and a smooth touch down 11 minutes early, and virtually straight onto stand.
Overall, this flight was fine, perfectly on time, perfectly clean and nothing to complain about. Although it was disappointing the Captain never spoke to us and the cabin crew still speak far too quickly on the tannoy.

Shoutout to the family I met on the bus from the aircraft to the terminal whom I discussed all my day trips and they told me about theirs and the trips they've done in the past. It was nice to meet you!
This flight was truly stunning, I think this is the most scenic flight I've done to date, every flight I take just outdoes all of my previous flights, whether that be by scenery, or by the hardness or smoothness of the landing, or by the punctuality or lack there of!


FLIGHT DETAILS:
Aircraft: Boeing 737 MAX 8-200
Seat: 7F
Flight time: 1 hour 48 minutes
Registration: EI-IHW
Engine Type: 2x CFMI LEAP-1B27
Age: 1 year
Delay: None!
Departure Time: 07.40 (Actual 07.51)
Arrival Time: 10.50 (Landed 10.39)
Route: STN-BCN (EGSS-LEBL)
Cruising altitude: 37,000ft (FL370)
Departure Runway: 22
Arrival Runway: 24R
Flight number: FR8214
Callsign: RYR36MJ
Date: Saturday 18th January 2025
Equipment: Samsung Galaxy S10
Livery: FR Standard
Interior: Sky

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:10 @STN
00:37 Boarding
01:09 Look around seat
01:36 Push and Start
03:05 Taxi
05:16 Takeoff RWY22
07:11 Flaps and Slats retract/breathtaking views
10:41 Cabin crew announcement
11:55 Climb to FL370
12:39 Cruising FL370
14:12 Loo review
14:39 Cruising FL370
15:05 The Pyrenees Mountains
17:15 Top of Descent
20:26 Approach to BCN
28:00 Final Approach and Landing
29:47 Plenary Text/Onto stand
30:58 Disembarking & Outro