flyer62 From United States of America, joined Apr 2001, 123 posts, RR: 0 Posted (3 years 3 months 4 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 1463 times:
I have a question about airlines ,on how they retire aircraft, take all the major US carriers,why do they bother painting aircraft into new colors then a short while after or a few years retire them? why waste all that money repainting a jet into the airlines new colors if they are gonna do that,Delta,United,American and Northwest were good a doing this and Usairways to.take the 727,737-200- DC-9s ,DC-10s L-1011s most of these planes were repainted then the airlines got rid of them,the 727s and 737s where a prime example of this,isnt this a waste of time and money to do that then get rid of them,if an airline knows they are going to get rid of a certain type,why bother to repaint them,this still goes on today to some extent,anyone else have any insight on this?
777STL From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 3055 posts, RR: 3 Reply 1, posted (3 years 3 months 4 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 1451 times:
Aircraft are repainted on a set schedule and/or during various heavy checks. Often, aircraft retirement isn't planned out years in advance so the airlines may not know exactly when they're going to retire xyz aircraft.
NA From Germany, joined Dec 1999, 9705 posts, RR: 10 Reply 2, posted (3 years 3 months 4 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 1440 times:
In many cases a retirement date wasnt set when a particular aircraft received a new coat of paint. Also from time to time an aircraft must have new paint for technical reasons, even if its just two years before it´s scheduled to be scrapped.
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