Newsstand - Airline Founder’s Dream Comes Full-circle

By Donna Hogan, Tribune
November 4, 2006

When Ed Beauvais’ new airline made its first flight from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to Los Angeles, he had three airplanes, 250 employees and use of a few Terminal 3 gates that he was told he’d have to give up “if a real airline wanted them.”

East Valley Tribune.com (http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=78303&source=rss&dest=STY-78303)

Hey that's my local newspaper.

It's surprising the number of Airbus planes I see overhead everyday that still have AW colors, even most of the ones that have been repainted have the registration NxxxAS

Gee -- they actually painted Piedmont and Allegheney aircraft and are flying them around?! That's cool!

Here's the various paint jobs:
America West original (http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1106119/M/)
America West pre-merger (http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1057923/M/)
PSA (http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1135895/M/)
Piedmont (http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1123936/M/)
Allegheny (http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1047391/M/)
Three at once plus old US Airways (http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1054381/M/)

I'm not sure if they're going to keep an all-navy blue heritage US Airways paint job.