Originally Posted by
satpak77
me wonders why a likely-to-merge airline would go ahead and paint two 777s in legacy colors only to have to repaint them at the cost of ??? dollars. When said airline is not exactly financially fit.
I bet a merger is announced with new paint scheme, in a big ceremony of koom-by-yah (spell?) and we are one family, one brand now
Years ago, I knew the PPG rep who hung out/worked at Delta in ATL and he said the typical plane back then (they have gotten bigger since) took 40-50 gallons of polyurethane paint. Throw in the labor and materials cost of stripping, priming, taping and spraying and its one helluva bill per airframe.
I know a handful of DAL pilots who weren't pleased with mother Delta repainting the planes post-bankruptcy because of the obvious cost. As they said, if DAL could afford to re-brand the planes, they could afford to give us a raise.