Originally Posted by
AAir_head
An unscientific observation...
This morning on the ramp at DEN, I spotted something very odd...a 737 with an America West logo on the tail. It also had "U.S. Airways" painted along the top of the forward end of fuselage...now that was the "interim" scheme during the merger...how long ago was that?
Now maybe they just pulled that frame back into service from storage, but still...it's all US Air now and they didn't take the time to get it right...
Yeah...AA needs to be associated with an outfit like that...better they should start from scratch and build an operation to compete where they really need the market share. US will collapse of its own accord...
cheers!
That might have been one of their celebratory legacy liveries. IIRC they have 4 of those planes, half decked out like one of their original 4 airlines and the rest in new US livery.
It was done post-US/HP merger, but it's primarily celebratory and doesn't cost them anything to keep, so I can't see why they would want to change it.
It's actually pretty cool, and one of the nicer touches of US to look back at their past like that. Too bad their present is too messy.