Repainting a NWA 744 in Delta Blue

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http://blogs.wsj.com/middleseat/2009/01/14/delta-repaints-northwest-747/?mod=yahoo_hs


This 3-minute-and-26 second video shows one of Northwest’s Boeing 747-400s being repainted with Delta livery. ...
As we’ve written before, the freshly painted Delta 747-400 marks the first time since 1977 that Delta has flown one of these birds. A Delta spokesman told us the jet will be used on routes between the U.S. and Asia, and within Asia from Tokyo. “In the coming weeks it could be spotted on any of the following routes: Detroit-Osaka; Detroit-Nagoya; Detroit-Tokyo; Hong Kong-Tokyo; Honolulu-Tokyo; Osaka-Taipei; Los Angeles-Tokyo; Manila-Nagoya; Manila-Tokyo; Minneapolis-St.Paul-Tokyo; and Tokyo-Shanghai,” he wrote in an e-mail.
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I was wondering that as well Lance and also why they painted white over the white on the body. I'd think that while expensive it would save weight and thus fuel if they stripped the first paint job before applying the second.
 
AdamZ said:
I was wondering that as well Lance and also why they painted white over the white on the body. I'd think that while expensive it would save weight and thus fuel if they stripped the first paint job before applying the second.
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It looked like they did strip some paint. You can see where the surface looked dull afterward. Then, a light green primer was laid down before a white coat.
 
Yeah, I think they did strip the paint off. It's hard to tell such things, especially when you don't fully know the process anyway.

Very cool!
 
Given what they're doing to certain parts of the frequent flyer program, they might as well have painted a middle finger on the tail... ;)
 
jmaynard said:
I guess I haven't noticed any downsides. Care to elaborate?
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Fee$. The latest was to impose a change and redeposit fee on award tickets that Platinum status folks have. They've also shut off the frequent-flyer program support by phone - you can only email them. Reduced award availability, and put in a new 3-tier program that allows them to cut the awards in the cheaper tiers and push folks to the higher tiers (like upwards of 200,000 miles for a US-Europe coach ticket). And, and, and....

Where I used to think DL's program was competitive, it's dropping. Not as bad as US, though, but worse than AA.

Oh, and the 2009 program details are not out yet - more "enhancements" (air quotes) will be announced next month. Note that Delta drops changes with 2-3 week notice. This one got out early from the NW side.

The NW platinum flyers are up in arms about the changes.... and the Delta flyers are just now reaching the same head of steam. At NW it's so bad that the company had to open a special email box to handle the complaints....
 
wsuffa said:
Fee$. The latest was to impose a change and redeposit fee on award tickets that Platinum status folks have. They've also shut off the frequent-flyer program support by phone - you can only email them. Reduced award availability, and put in a new 3-tier program that allows them to cut the awards in the cheaper tiers and push folks to the higher tiers (like upwards of 200,000 miles for a US-Europe coach ticket). And, and, and....

Where I used to think DL's program was competitive, it's dropping. Not as bad as US, though, but worse than AA.

Oh, and the 2009 program details are not out yet - more "enhancements" (air quotes) will be announced next month. Note that Delta drops changes with 2-3 week notice. This one got out early from the NW side.

The NW platinum flyers are up in arms about the changes.... and the Delta flyers are just now reaching the same head of steam. At NW it's so bad that the company had to open a special email box to handle the complaints....
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50,000 miles each for RT SEA-LHR tickets this summer on United. And I still have a number to call. Oh, and Economy + seating. Delta and NWA both lacked that. Legroom, that's what it's all about.
 
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