FlyingElvii wrote:flightsimer wrote:alasizon wrote:
The all gray aircraft (242 & 945) are just gray decals over the AA livery.
Has nothing to do with scope, it has to do with YV trying to maintain a flying fleet - they currently have 40 aircraft under the CPA plus five additional short-term aircraft but are using 56 aircraft to cover that operation due to their maintenance operation. The generic liveries are the 7 aircraft that were removed from the AA fleet pre-COVID.
Actually it has everything to do with scope.
Same reason why Republic repainted 4 175’s to House livery from AA paint.
The four house liveries were very welcome at YX, giving us flexible system spares that we didn’t have since the BK.
The four House painted 175’s are only AA Spares and nothing has changed with them other than the paint scheme. If you look at the old Station lists, which you probably can’t because they were on the intranet and I don’t think the old ones made it to share point… but it would show how many planes are active for each carrier. The AA side was a fleet of 85 planes (pre AA170/175 deal from the fall) and there was only ever 79 planes at the most with active lines assigned to them. The other 6 planes were operational spares as well as planes in Heavy MX.
DL and UA still utilize only the 170 house spares as far as I know.