painting sced for a/c in the new livery

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etops1

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just to let you guys know we have 2 767's painted in the new livery .N650US & N656US. and of course 1 A320 in the new colors N109UW. other a/c to be painted will be us/west 737-300,29 in 2006.A320,2 in 2005 & 53 in 2006. A319, 39 in 2006. 757, 12 in 2006. total of 133 for us/west. us/east . 757, 3 in 2005 & 4 in 2006. 767, 5 in 2005 no more sched for 2006. 737-300 ,27 in 2006. no A330,a319,a320,or a321 a/c on the sched to be painted in either 2005 or 2006 unless noted.so looks like no the only a/c type being painted for us east are boeing a/c with a total of 39 for us/east . with a grand total of 172 a/c painted in new livery for the combined carrier in 2006. source for this info is on "about us"
happy holidays & happy flying.
 
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etops1 said:
just to let you guys know we have 2 767's painted in the new livery .N650US & N656US. and of course 1 A320 in the new colors N109UW. other a/c to be painted will be us/west 737-300,29 in 2006.A320,2 in 2005 & 53 in 2006. A319, 39 in 2006. 757, 12 in 2006. total of 133 for us/west. us/east . 757, 3 in 2005 & 4 in 2006. 767, 5 in 2005 no more sched for 2006. 737-300 ,27 in 2006. no A330,a319,a320,or a321 a/c on the sched to be painted in either 2005 or 2006 unless noted.so looks like no the only a/c type being painted for us east are boeing a/c with a total of 39 for us/east . with a grand total of 172 a/c painted in new livery for the combined carrier in 2006. source for this info is on "about us"
happy holidays & happy flying.
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almost forgot. the heritage planes will be painted in early 2006. looks like it it will be painted on us/west A320's.
 
etops1 said:
almost forgot. the heritage planes will be painted in early 2006. looks like it it will be painted on us/west A320's.
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Wonder why they started with the east side planes. Were they the first to come up needing a paint job? Thought the plan was to do all the AWA planes first to have a common fleet.? Or can you opperate under a AWA cert painted US Airways?
 
I dunno, some of our 57's are pretty bad! (Thankfully we no longer have a plane painted in the Sun's scheme to look so crummy after 6 months of direct sunlight on it...Barney was one UGLY plane! Now if only we can rid ourselves of that Cardinals plane! lol.)
 
I saw one of the new liveries in SJU last weekend. I had to do a double take because it sure looked like a US flag on a Delta tail.
 
smmech said:
Wonder why they started with the east side planes. Were they the first to come up needing a paint job? Thought the plan was to do all the AWA planes first to have a common fleet.? Or can you opperate under a AWA cert painted US Airways?
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The reason for the west fleet first is simple We are US Airways... EAST planes are already in us livery and will be the last to be painted West planes need to shed the HP livery
 
bulldog said:
The reason for the west fleet first is simple We are US Airways... EAST planes are already in us livery and will be the last to be painted West planes need to shed the HP livery
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I agree. It's hard to hide the big America West on the side of the plane. Better to get down to 2 paint jobs saying US Airways. As for the US East ac being painted this year? I have never seen as many chipped paint jobs as are on our East a/c. It is humiliating.
 
LCC_#1 said:
I agree. It's hard to hide the big America West on the side of the plane. Better to get down to 2 paint jobs saying US Airways. As for the US East ac being painted this year? I have never seen as many chipped paint jobs as are on our East a/c. It is humiliating.
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yes the whole fleet of US/East was painted back in '97/98.
the newest paint job being the last A330 to come out of Airbus back in 2000.
Paint typically lasts about 7 years on an aircraft if it is done correctly. I think Steve Wolf went with the lowest bidder when he tried to spruce up the fleet for sale. that's why all the peeling paint.
 
Fixed Wing said:
yes the whole fleet of US/East was painted back in '97/98.
the newest paint job being the last A330 to come out of Airbus back in 2000.
Paint typically lasts about 7 years on an aircraft if it is done correctly. I think Steve Wolf went with the lowest bidder when he tried to spruce up the fleet for sale. that's why all the peeling paint.
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Some of the 737-300's were just painted within the last 2 or 3 years. Right before the first BK. Remember some of the Silver Bullets running around. Like '02 or '03 they were painted.
 
AWA is getting it's first US paint job next week.
Brand new A320 AC N679AW will fly to ROS and be painted in the new colors. AC 678 will follow in a few weeks that is the 2 A320 in 2005. Can't wait to see it!
 
Does anyone know if the brand new US-West A-320's 678 and 679 are leaving the factory in primer, or where they painted in full HP colors ?

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LGA777
 
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