Actually this is incorrect. They can paint and interior any spirit planes they want. United had plenty of planes painted United “operated by continental” while they worked on a JCBA and SLI.

It’s not efficient to keep it all separate but they can and will brand change any of the spirit planes as fast as they can. They just will continue to be operated by spirit pilots only. Our contract doesn’t prevent repainting or what interiors the company can put in the planes. And they will continue to suffer from massive attrition.

This is me making an assumption of your definition of “converting”