All three are quite underwhelming. If I had to choose from one of those, American. There's a lot going on with the tail section (more colors and shades than I originally thought). I also like the metallic gray body paint.
I take the opposite stance with the AA livery. The grey isn't metallic at all. In fact, it looks more like primer. They should have adopted the old US Airways livery and swapping the "cancelled postage stamp" flag on the tail with the classic AA eagle.
I'm glad that UA adopted the CO livery. It's looking a bit dated now, though, and in light of recent customer service disasters, UA is probably thinking really hard about rebranding.
My vote goes to DL. Modern touch to a classic logo, though I still think it's a bit odd that they chose to put the widget at an odd angle on the tails.
I still think it's a bit odd that they chose to put the widget at an odd angle on the tails.
It was a good idea to adopt that compass pointer from the NWA livery, but I agree, kind of poor execution. Especially when the widget doesn't actually point to NW.