<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by thoglette:
At BNE on Monday night & saw a "white tail" 744 with Qantas painted on the cabin & standard QF markings on engines.
Hull was white with dark blue underbody & engine nacelles. Tail had been yellow/blue/white, going by bits remaining on the tail.
I presume that this bird is ex-BA?</font>
Didn't someone say that ATC at LAX had thrown a wobbly one day a couple of months ago when someone mistook it for a BA-operated a/c and didn't realise that it's working for QF at the moment? The result was that the tail was whited out, almost as an emergency - it was done the same day before the a/c left LAX.
Can't remember where I got this from now, but it left a vivid memory after I'd stopped laughing.