Throwback Livery
 

The DL social media team seems to do a great job and has fun with showcasing company history. :cool: DL just ended an 80s flashback week on their Facebook page, including lots of pictures of everything DL from the 1980s.

My post is mainly for the DL corp team members who read these threads:

Please suggest that a few planes in the domestic fleet be painted in heritage livery. Maybe an MD-90 or two (or even a domestic 767 if one will be hanging around for a while) with the late 80s DL livery and a newer A320 or two with the mid-2000s NW livery or the infamous "Bowling Shoe" livery.

I'd like an MD-88 in the classic Widget livery and would like to have a 767 (-300 or -400) in the "Colors in Motion" livery. BTW, I hope whenever the 757 with the "Thank You Jerry" decal is retired that they will move it to another aircraft. Mr. Grinstein saved Delta and I hope he is always remembered.

Paint Western Airlines, North East, Pan Am, C&S, and NW. All these carriers made the current DL. Show your pride!

And the components that made up NW - North Central, Hughes, Southern, ultimately Republic.

I'd like to see a return to the 747 with the children of the world livery (artwork by children) that PMNW used around 1997. (This was a question used in the dinner game at the DL ATL DO.)

And don't forget the predecessors of Hughes Airwest (Pacific, Bonanza, and West Coast).

Both Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads have done this, painting locomotives in the liveries of various predecessor lines (Pennsy, New York Central, Wabash, Southern Pacific, Missouri Pacific, etc.). And American put the 50s AA and TW liveries on a plane each a while back.

I think it would be fun to see Herman the Goose, a Yellowbird, and other classic liveries for a while. Maybe a vote of passengers to pick among the choices that each airline would present.

US Scareways has an aircraft that I frequently see at DCA with all the logos of their predecessors on it; I've also seen their airplanes with the former PSA livery (including the smile below the nose), as well as Allegheny (I'm sure they have a Piedmont plane, but I haven't seen it); I like their sports team paint jobs, particularly the Steelers plane (which seems to be at DCA every day) and the Arizona Cardinals plane which I saw on my last trip to PHX which looked particularly sharp.

I also like the state flag-based liveries that WN flies, such as Maryland One and New Mexico One (a WN FA told me that they privately called it the "Big Banana"). I've seen their Texas and California planes too. America West used to have aircraft resembling the Nevada and Ohio state flags.

As far as PanAm is concerned, there is a 727 out there with their classic livery, but it is owned by a railroad company which bought the PanAm trademarks (these are used on its trains, which roll in the state of Maine).

http://www.panamrailways.com/index.p...f8fdns8ptn7n35

Having grown up in west Michigan, I was well familiar with the "Blue Goose" of North Central. I always thought that it was a pretty neat airline. I remember traveling to Washington, DC in 1971 when on a scholarship program as a high school student--this is what commercial air travel was like back them when you lived in a small market. The NC flight was something like MKG-LAN-DTW-CLE, changing in Cleveland to UA for the CLE-DCA flight (the NC flight originated at ORD and stopped at MKE before crossing Lake Michigan). NW flew the 50 seat Convair turbo prop which had very comfortable seats and was extremely noisy.

Website? Please?
 

Will any of these pictures be posted to the Delta website? Please? I'd love to see them!

Yeah I forgot to mention that I was pretty sure the railroad owned all of Pan Am's old trademarks (note the locomotives use the globe as well as the pre-globe logo) because DL never bought PA, so DL would have to license anything Pan Am they wanted to use. Since all of the other airlines precedent to today's DL were acquired through merger or purchase, I would guess DL has full rights to the names/logos/paint schemes.

It would be fun too if DL would paint a plane in each of their and NW's jet-age liveries (how many have there been?).

AA didn't purchase all of TWA, just certain assets, so I wonder whether or not they bought the trademark rights at the time.

There are too many airline that make up Delta but to use US Airways decision of not using the carriers that were acquired by the companies whose liveries they used (so no Mohawk, Empire, and other airlines that Allegheny purchased) that would probably leave for Delta:

1) Delta in widget scheme (a 757 in its original livery would work)
2) Northwest in any livery (once again a 757 or A320 would be most realistic)
3) Western (probably would use a 737-800 for this)
4) Northeast (since they were acquired in 1972 nothing in the current fleet looks like an aircraft they operated unless maybe you go with a 717 or paint a 737-800 just because Delta has a large fleet of them and they serve many destinations)

A few years ago at BOS saw USAir planes with Piedmont, Allegheny and I believe Mohawk liveries all lined up on the B concourse. Just happened to all be in the same place at the same time.

If you're going with some of the PMNW livery, the children of the world 747 would be great PR in Asia.

This ^^^ -- let's not ask to move mountains here. I like the 1, 2 and 3 above as it, at least to me, seems relatively simple. DL widget on the newest domestic 757, NWA bowling shoe on the newest A320, and Western livery on the newest 738.

I love seeing the US heritage fleet at DCA (although it has been a while since I've seen one) and I always look for WN's Shamu ship when flying via BWI. Still on my list is to see the AS "Salmon-30-Salmon."