US Airways and LAA plane repainting / new livery
Apr 18, 2015, 11:11 am
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I've had the great (mis)fortune to encounter about a half dozen repainted Dash-8s so far this year. Hadn't US (Piedmont) announced that they'd be retiring all of that fleet within the next few years, or am I misremembering something? If so, I wouldn't have expected them to be repainted at all, let alone so relatively quickly.
Apr 18, 2015, 12:45 pm
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I've had the great (mis)fortune to encounter about a half dozen repainted Dash-8s so far this year. Hadn't US (Piedmont) announced that they'd be retiring all of that fleet within the next few years, or am I misremembering something? If so, I wouldn't have expected them to be repainted at all, let alone so relatively quickly.
Apr 18, 2015, 3:49 pm
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Just as an observation - all planes need to be repainted periodically. If you have a new livery, why wouldn't you use it? To use the old livery instead would require stocking two sets of paints.
Apr 19, 2015, 9:06 am
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I'm assuming that Q4 2017 figure takes into account by then the retirement of all MD80s and whatever PM AA 757s and 763s that will be taken out of service by the end of 2017. I wonder if the A320s that will be retired during 2016 and 2017 will remain with the US livery.
Jun 29, 2016, 5:47 pm
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Any idea what the percentage of US planes painted is now? I was at CLT this am and only saw one mainline 321 in US colors - every other one in all terminals was new livery.
Jun 29, 2016, 6:04 pm
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https://sites.google.com/site/newamericanfleet/
Jun 29, 2016, 7:09 pm
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This page tracks reprinting to the new livery from both legacy AA and US:
https://sites.google.com/site/newamericanfleet/
https://sites.google.com/site/newamericanfleet/
Jun 29, 2016, 7:32 pm
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