Are you implyinh that new paint means all is well with the airplane? The one in the photo could very well have ZERO DF items, while a new shiny painted plane is out of service for maintenance issues.

If you use paint as your barometer I know a few unscrupulous airplane brokers you might want to talk to.

Personally I think the company has done a fairly good job of getting planes through the paint shop quickly versus the last regime. Hopefully we will adopt the CAL cleaning process as their planes had better exterior cleaning than the UAL side ever did.

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