Horrible Aircraft appearances in The Fleet

[Poug Darker]

N532AU is...Most likely her time to the next check is close and she will go back to the lessor and wait for her next call to duty somewhere else.

Well, it is not on the list for decommisioning through 2009--maybe it's waiting for a slot in the paint shop.

Cheers.

 

[Kev3188]

May I also recommend the book "Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos."

Good call!

This book should be required reading for anyone involved in aviation....

For anyone who hasn't read it, you're definitely missing out on a great read!

 

[AstroLounge]

Well, it is not on the list for decommisioning through 2009--maybe it's waiting for a slot in the paint shop.

Cheers.

Well, if it isn't headed to the Paint Shop maybe they should park it at a secluded spot on the tarmac in PHL and invite all the Gangs from The Hood to "splash some color" on the plane with Company issued spray paint.......it certainly couldn't look ANY WORSE.

 

[Chipmunk]

Well, if it isn't headed to the Paint Shop maybe they should park it at a secluded spot on the tarmac in PHL and invite all the Gangs from The Hood to "splash some color" on the plane with Company issued spray paint.......it certainly couldn't look ANY WORSE.

Oh Contraire - Have you seen the DELTA Airlines Pink scheme ????

 

[flybynite]

Oh Contraire - Have you seen the DELTA Airlines Pink scheme ????

Oh hell no!!! Where is that!! You just told a big fat big one. Didn't ya????

 

[mga707]

Oh hell no!!! Where is that!! You just told a big fat big one. Didn't ya????

The pink DL scheme was one of the Song color schemes. Song's been sung, so ain't no 'mo!

 

[EMBFA]

Not so. A shockingly green Song livery Delta 757 passed me the other day.

 

[Dont call me Shirley]

Has anyone seen the 737 aka "Satan's Chariot" ship number 532? That eyesore of an embarassment is probably the WORST looking aircraft in the skies. I

Does anyone have a recent photo to post or link to?

 

[nycbusdriver]

Well, it is not on the list for decommisioning through 2009--maybe it's waiting for a slot in the paint shop.

Cheers.

Actually, it is waiting for the paint shop. The new company policy is to save the money needed to strip the old paint by just waiting for all of it to fall off. Then it goes in for its new livery. What money geniuses we have in Tempe, huh?

Aw. I always feel sorry for our planes when they are humanized. I feel bad for talking poorly of them because thier owners don't care.

It's really disturbing to see a plane getting scrapped, like a murder.

4 months later

Think of it in terms of the "circle of life." How many of our former airframes end up having a much higher purpose....beer cans!

 

[700UW]

The PINK DL 757 was dedicated for breast cancer awareness.

It was not a Song plane, but mainline

N610DL

 

[DrBeth]

I flew on an A321 on Saturday morning, CLT-LGA. As we were departing, the pilot announced that we had to return to the gate because a pilot in another aircraft noticed that we might have a panel missing. We returned to the gate and the pilots discovered that we did have the panel, but it did not match the rest of the aircraft and appeared as if the panel was missing. All in all, a 55-minute departure delay because someone did not paint the panel to match the rest of the aircraft.

 

[LD3]

"From Worst To First" is a great book. Need to read it again. Maybe we should send it to Tempe with highlighted passages, particularly the bit about the pizza.

May I also recommend the book "Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos."

Are there enough pictures in the book so Dougie and Scottie can comprehend??

 

[Skyward]

The PINK DL 757 was dedicated for breast cancer awareness.

It was not a Song plane, but mainline

N610DL was indeed a Song "pink themed" aircraft before the present mainline livery.

N610DL (cn 22817/66) in Pink Song Livery

 

[Hope777]

I flew on an A321 on Saturday morning, CLT-LGA. As we were departing, the pilot announced that we had to return to the gate because a pilot in another aircraft noticed that we might have a panel missing. We returned to the gate and the pilots discovered that we did have the panel, but it did not match the rest of the aircraft and appeared as if the panel was missing. All in all, a 55-minute departure delay because someone did not paint the panel to match the rest of the aircraft.

So I guess YOU would rather depart with the chance a panel IS missing? It could have been a New Panel from Airbus and had not been painted yet.

 

[N965VJ]

It could have been a New Panel from Airbus and had not been painted yet.

Would it have been painted prior to installation, oh, say 8 or 10 years ago?