Updated Flight Itinerary

Hey Parents,

Welcome to the Southern Arizona blog. This is where you can get daily updates on the Southern Arizona trip when it begins in a few weeks.

For now I wanted to let you know that our return flight has changed; the group will now fly direct  from PHX to SFO. The Preparing to Go flight itinerary and map are all changed as well.The muster time and outgoing flight is unchanged.  Here, for convenience, is the updated flight itinerary:

Sun Jun 09, 2024

[Muster at 1:30 pm at United ticketing (departures), Terminal 3, SFO

United Airlines # 5688, San Francisco, CA (SFO) departs at 4:20 PM; arrives Tucson, AZ (TUS) at 6:44 PM]

Friday, June 14, 2024 (updated 5/20)

United Airlines # 742, Phoenix, AZ (PHX) departs 10:15 AM; arrives San Francisco (SFO) at 12:19 PM.



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