Originally Posted by
HardLemonade
That's classic America West...I mean US Airways....I mean American Airlines. In short: Classic Doug Parker.
Take a trip to ROW sometime and see how many AA 767s in NEW COLORS are sitting out there being stripped for parts. Why spend some serious dough taking an aircraft offline to repaint it knowing you are just going to fly it to the desert in a few months? Doug Parker, that's why.
Also see airbus' delivered post merger in USAirways paint...and repainted again immediately after delivery.