American Airlines rebranding ‘very soon’

[dfw gen]

Wait till skydrol leaks bleed the colors on the tail. Them it should look like a finger paint job!

 

[FWAAA]

It simply isn't a look befitting what will soon be the world's largest airline (again). This ugliness on almost 1,000 mainline planes and another 600+ regional planes. Yuck.

 

[texflyer]

At least the NWA had a contemporary looking red tail, the tail on the new livery.......................I am still speechless.

 

[amt66]

It has to be the ugliest livery I have ever seen.

Uglier than usairs? Come on now

 

[Mach85ER]

Looks like crap.

I think it is a perfect example of the leadership, style and imagination of the current leadership and their claim they can lead AA in the future. All of which I have little faith in and this livery shows it.

That tail design alone is similar to finger nails slowly scratching down a long chalkboard, sending a loud screeching noise through the brain stems of anyone nearby along with watching the nails slowly splinter.

 

[xmarlin]

Looks like an attempt to do a British Airways/Air France tail concept...

And as usual it looks like AA managed to get the ball into the red zone, lost interest and then walked away.

Spectacular failure.

I'll bet the consulting firm had to sign non-disclosures.

Good Lord, can they get nothing right? What a mess.

 

[TWU informer]

This would look better

Much better

 

[PA28-180]

It's down right embarrassing,Another sad Day for a once great Airline.Management must go...

 

[amt66]

Much better

That's fugly

 

[FWAAA]

This would look better

Yeah, but I still don't like the New England Patriots-style eagle logo that you retained (which resembles the Greyhound dog as well).

 

[1AA]

Good bye Silver Bird. Hello Greyhound.

 

[usa1]

The pilots at American Airlines offered their initial responses to American’s new look Thursday, and pointed out that what American really needs is a merger.

From the Allied Pilots Association, per spokesman Dennis Tajer

“A new paint job is fine but it does not fix American’s network deficiencies and toxic culture, so we continue our steadfast support of a merger with US Airways and not doubling down on the network strategy that brought us into bankruptcy.
“American’s network needs more than cosmetic changes to compete with Delta and United, simply put, it needs to merge with US Airways now.”​

 

[FWAAA]

Now that we know that the pilots have been promised an extra $87 million a year by Parker (that works out to an average of about $10,000 more per pilot per year), kinda makes me wonder whether the APA spokesperson cares about the network or just wants the $87 million a year, sort of a new variation on "Full Pay to the Last Day."

If the APA members were looking at a paycut of an additional $10k per year with the merger and were still banging the drum that the merger was necessary to bolster AA's network, they'd be a whole lot more believable.

 

[WorldTraveler]

and then you have AA's labor leaders thinking that AA's longer size means they stand a much better chance of gaining US employees as members... does nothing to improve the fate of current AA employees or make AA successful but gaining more members and the hope of a little more pay - which Parker is willing to throw around - are powerful incentives for labor leaders to jump, regardless of how much it may or may not make sense.

 

[JFK Fleet Service]

At the end of the day an old whore in a new dress is still an old whore in a new dress.

Asstacularly bad livery.Period.Full stop.