Can't get enough eclipse? Southwest Airlines offering April flights directly in the path

The best place to watch the upcoming April eclipse may not be from the ground.

Southwest Airlines recently shared pictures on its Instagram page of a 2017 eclipse taken out of the window of one of its flights by photographer Jon Carmichael. The photos show the curvature of the Earth below a “ring of fire” created by the moon obscuring the sun.

“Think you can beat this shot? The next total eclipse is on April 8, 2024, and we have the flight paths that you'll want to be on for the most epic views,” Southwest wrote on its post.

Among the flights directly in the path of the eclipse are three in and out of Texas, including Flight 1721 from Austin to Indianapolis at 12:50 p.m. That flight never leaves the eclipse’s path of totality, according to Southwest.

Flight 1252 from Dallas to Pittsburgh at 12:45 p.m. and Flight 1910 from St. Louis to Houston at 1:20 p.m. are also scheduled to fly directly in the path of totality.

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A spate of flights will be mostly in the eclipse’s path, including Flight 1682 from Chicago to Austin at 1:30 p.m.

The flight paths will likely yield some of the best viewing opportunities for the total eclipse on April 8, which has a path from Del Rio and northwest through Austin and the rest of the country. Viewers in the path of totality will experience the full “twilight effect.”

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Ahead of the 2017 eclipse, Carmichael spoke to the flight crew, leading the pilots to make a series of FAA-approved turns and the flight attendants to hand-clean his window so he could capture the best photos, according to the Instagram post.

This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Southwest Airlines announces flights in path of April eclipse