SLCUT2777 From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 3858 posts, RR: 11 Reply 1, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 10405 times:
GeorgiaAME From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 867 posts, RR: 6 Reply 3, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 10323 times:
I guess the Atlanta-CDG is the only run that is allowed to fly with clean aircraft. Because I have never been in a dirty one. The French may have their egregious faults, but in my humble opinion, Air France is not one of them.
"Trust, but verify!" An old Russian proverb, quoted often by a modern American hero
Bohica From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 2407 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 10249 times:
ORDRyan28 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 988 posts, RR: 17 Reply 5, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 10218 times:
AF has been paying attention to what we say about their planes on a.net
-Ryan
Whoever said winning is not everything never fought cancer.
AlitaliaMD11 From Spain, joined Dec 2003, 4068 posts, RR: 15 Reply 7, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 10097 times:
Take a look at F-GSPD, used to be the dirtiest Air France plane in the fleet and now she's spotless and sporting the seahorses on her engines and KLM-Air France logo on her stern.
ORDRyan28 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 988 posts, RR: 17 Reply 8, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 9904 times:
Quoting AlitaliaMD11 (Reply 7): Take a look at F-GSPD, used to be the dirtiest Air France plane in the fleet and now she's spotless and sporting the seahorses on her engines and KLM-Air France logo on her stern.
told ya...AF knows what's up, they've heard the rumors.
Whoever said winning is not everything never fought cancer.
Scorpio From Belgium, joined Oct 2001, 4934 posts, RR: 47 Reply 11, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 9649 times:
Quoting AlitaliaMD11 (Reply 7): Take a look at F-GSPD, used to be the dirtiest Air France plane in the fleet and now she's spotless and sporting the seahorses on her engines and KLM-Air France logo on her stern.
Breiz From France, joined Mar 2005, 1808 posts, RR: 2 Reply 12, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 9368 times:
Quoting AlitaliaMD11 (Reply 7): Take a look at F-GSPD, used to be the dirtiest Air France plane in the fleet and now she's spotless and sporting the seahorses on her engines and KLM-Air France logo on her stern.
I you want the new stickers to...uh, stick, you better clean the surface first.
Panamair From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 4583 posts, RR: 26 Reply 14, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 8959 times:
Quoting AlitaliaMD11 (Reply 7): Take a look at F-GSPD, used to be the dirtiest Air France plane in the fleet
'Cause the dirt and grime have moved on to F-GSPE and F-GSPF, two of the filthiest 777s I saw at CDG last week....
Flaps From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 1115 posts, RR: 4 Reply 19, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 6494 times:
Quoting Airbus340 (Reply 18): mmmm...if Air France wants to reduce cost by not cleaning their planes again sometime, they should make a new livery in brown colour....:p
Hmmm. I was just thinking the same, maybe a light brown to medium gray.....
DAYflyer From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 3807 posts, RR: 4 Reply 22, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 4939 times:
FlyDeltaJets From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 1623 posts, RR: 3 Reply 23, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 4644 times:
Quoting Bohica (Reply 4): Maybe the plane is brand new.
Beat me to it.
I saw some really clean 777 in JFK last month but when I looked closer I saw the dark blue on the engine cone and realized these are new planes.
Spruit From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2005, 375 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 4533 times:
AF Cargo bird, probably transporting the good stuff! The French can't send their Beaujolais Nouveau in a dirty 744
E=Mc2
25 DLKAPA: Why would they send their wine from Dallas?
26 Spruit: They wouldn't, but maybe it was leaving after delivering some!
27 Lufthansi: Oh I have some pics of those clean Air France Jets: http://myaviation.net/?pid=00731626 http://myaviation.net/?pid=00731625 http://myaviation.net/?pid
28 Barney Captain: http://myaviation.net/search/photo_search.php?id=00731626 I swear we taxied by this very bird in LAX on Wednesday. We were both shocked at how a relat
29 Paul777: Could someone out here tell me the cost of cleaning the exterior of an aircraft? How is Air France doing in terms of profitability, with their "dirty
30 SonicAirlines: In regards to cleaning, how long on average would it take to clean a widebody aircraft ? Maybe it's a case of AF not wanting their birds out of rotati
31 CRGsFuture: I'd be willing to bet 5$ that once CDG is cleaned up so too will the AF birds be.
32 Ordryan28: lol...those were awful, wish they didn't look so bad...gives AF a bad wrap
33 Lufthansi: Allright. But I bet that CDG never never never will be cleaned up. Yesterday I had a big bolt (screw) in one of the aircraft tires. And guess what? T
34 Sebolino: Why?... Just tell me why! Why does a plane have to look like a french car? It's because if it looked like a BMW, there would be always cops inside th
36 Simes: Do any other airlines have a similar set up that QF have at SYD, they clean the birds off in what can best be described as a large car port (a covered
37 San747: Stranger things have happened... It snows there once or twice a year...
39 A340600: AF are often clean now, it's IB I worry about...
40 Tango29: I think IB and AF should really change their schemes because they have looked crap and dated for years now.
41 PPVRA: He he I thought that too! It increases friction with the air = slightly higher fuel burn. No danger for the aircraft as far as I can tell. It is prob
42 Blast: This is probably what it is all about: Nasty Euro-white liveries and paintschemes that allow the tiniest speck of dirt to stand out and scream at you
43 Lufthansi: LH cleans their babies once a week...
44 Capital146: I was at LBA on Thursday and saw G-MIDX of Bmi, looking extremely grubby. From the caption on one of the photo's below, it seems I'm not the only one
45 Tango29: Damn good question but LH falls into the crap/dated scheme, i think it has a lot to do with tail colours as a good colorful tail design can take the
46 MCIGuy: I'm curious. Does anyone think that the dirty planes scares any laypersons away frm AF, thinking (incorrectly) that they don't maintain their planes?
47 DALelite: AF are cleaning their AC . so once again, weired topic... DALelite
48 RichPhitzwell: The true reason lies here Man Gets Arrested On UA Flight (by Fl370 Jul 28 2006 in Civil Aviation)
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