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Old May 3, 2010 | 7:49 am
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Originally Posted by AMF in NJ
I'm wondering if it's because it would be cheaper/faster to repaint only the UA planes and touch up the CO planes instead of repainting both the UA planes and CO planes. :-:
no, it was politics of the internal sort. They MUST have union backing to make this work, the CO unions would be devastated to see their entire identity go, this is a token move to say 'see you are not forgotten, we are merging our way back Varney legacy'
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