Originally Posted by
Duke787
Interesting to see on mainline! Have had this happen on DL Connection before. A couple times I've even been on the SkyWest (I think) E170/E175 that's only branded as "SkyWest" and otherwise all white so they can use it as emergency IRROPs for any of their mainline partners.
I used to work for ACA (Atlantic Coast Airlines, now defunct). We flew for both DL and UA (and later our own carrier). We had a few CRJs that were painted in "generic" liveries so they could be used as spares. Makes sense when you have a large enough regional carrier.
Working on the ramp at IAD, we used to see cans (Containers with bags or cargo) come off our planes from airlines all over the World. I always thought it would be interesting to put a GPS on one of those to follow it around for a year. There's a lot of recycled stuff in the airline biz.