Mount Shasta…
I don’t have any but I wish I did. I was on a plane that flew over the Grand Canyon. Bright sunny morning, crystal clear, I’ll never see something that amazing again.
Here are some of a few of the Hawaiian Islands that I got out the window on my flight from Kona to Honolulu in August. Apparently you have to click on the link to see them all. You can also click on the individual photos to get a larger image as well (I recommend that!)
Here’s what they are (not in the order they were taken):
- Honolulu/Waikiki Beach
- Kahoolawe with Maui in the background
- Kahoolawe with Maui in the background
- Maui (specifically Haleakala)
- Lanai (foreground), Molokai’i (left), Maui (background/right)
- Big Island (taken looking N/NE from off Kona- you can see Kohala trailing off to the left, and Mauna Kea above the clouds to the right)
I had a similar experience, flying over Yosemite on a sunny morning. It was so exciting to recognize Half Dome and El Capitan, which I’d seen in photos but never in person. Another sunny morning, I flew over Mt. Rainier. Both of these flights were before the days of cell phone cameras; I might have had a SLR camera at the time but didn’t think to pull it out. Kudos to all of you posters for your presence of mind and camera skills!
@Telemark, I’m wondering about your Manhattan photo? I’ve flown out of and into JFK and LaGuardia dozens of times and never seen it from that angle, always closer up, so I wonder if you were flying over to another airport further away?
I was flying PBI to BOS, along the coast. I happened to look out the window late in the flight and there was a huge number of lights down below. I took a closer look, then a double take, and started taking photos.
Close enough to get a decent night shot of the VN
Taking the traditional definition I don’t have that many good ones, but if we expand it to aircraft flown by commercial pilots for which one can pay for a flight &/or regularly scheduled sightseeing ops I have lots.
Mount Rainer:
I don’t know where this is. Any guesses?
Correction: that’s Mount Hood.
I’ve seen the GC from the air. The view from the rim is ten times the “WOW”.
Years ago my wife and I left Vegas on a just-after-sunrise flight back to Wichita. Shortly after we left, the captain announced that everybody on the left side of the aircraft should look down at the GC, because we’d never see a view like that again.
We, of course, were sitting on the right side of the aircraft. We saw the Colorado River gorge as it left the canyon, but no more. Dammit.
“Ladies & Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. To everyone on the left side of the plane if you look out your window you’ll see the super impressive Grand Canyon out your windows & to everyone on the right side of the plane if you look to your left you will see the bald spots of the people on the other side of the aisle.” 
Heh, yes, exactly. I of course tried to crane my neck to see over the heads of the other passengers, but saw nothing but bad haircuts.
“…floating down the sound resounds around the icy waters underground…” 
The standard arrival into Boston for folks coming up from the south passes directly over JFK, typically at about 30,000 ft. On a nice day or night It makes for spectacular sightseeing of the Jersey shore, Long Island, Newark, and NYC proper. Whether you’re watching out the left side or out the front 
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Folks on the right get to see ocean, ocean, and more ocean. Until we turn over JFK and slide diagonally up Long island and the Sound, entering the mainland near New Haven CT at (typically) 23,000 ft. So they get a look at the Suffolk county burb of NYC, plus the eastern half of LI, more water, some coastal eastern CT including the sub base at New London (not real obvious), then Providence RI, etc. So pretty nondescript unless you’re already familiar with the area and know what to look for. The left side views are much better.
I often pick left vs right window seats based on expected flight paths.
While I’m here, Venice
Flying into Siem Reap Cambodia, these were aging bomb craters in farmer’s fields.
Downtown Seattle, including Pioneer Square, the Space Needle, and the Great Wheel;
I think the title sequence from “Up In The Air” would fit right in here:
