Originally Posted by B_Alex

This is certainly more a lack of effort in painting than it is following any sort of maintenance program. Fin 738 (C-FIVM) was delivered in May of 2008 and is still flying around with its original coat of paint (the red titles have been replaced). As is 739, 740, 741 and 742. 10 years is long, but 16 is excessive…

Paint priority (at least when I was there) was given to any aircraft that was showing delamination. Paint would be inspected on maintenance visits, and even if it was faded and looked awful, if it wasn’t delaminated, it wasn’t prioritized.

As a point of reference, the previous (ice blue) livery debuted in October 2004. The final aircraft in the white (1993 livery) was Fin 403, and it was repainted in October of 2010. So there seemed to be a lot more motivation back then. Granted they were also fighting off CCAA protection, and trying to spin off every possible asset (Aveos, Aeroplan, ACGHS) so it wasn’t exactly the “good old days.”