Aircraft repainting is a scheduled event similar to maintenance checks. After so many years the aircraft needs to be repainted no matter if the livery has changed or not. Now with a livery change the repainting schedule/frequency is just noticeable where as until now most people just assumed that each aircraft was painted once 10 years ago and never saw a new coat of paint.

That’s more or less what I was saying, albeit not as detailed as you.

Are you sure about that? Unless an airline decides to utilize a paint scheme similar to American with bare metal how does one design use more paint than another. Perhaps having a line painted overtop of a base coat would add additional paint but as far as I could tell the old UAL livery had very little cheat lines (or whatever they are called).

Believe it or not, WD, I had actually read that somewhere, that by using white instead of dark grey and a lighter shade of blue, that the paint would wind up being lighter.

They had a pretty distinct livery before, now it looks like all the rest out there.

Name one that it looks like.

How can they afford paint jobs anyway???

They are getting painted after maintanence. As long as they have money to maintain the aircraft, they should have money to paint them. This paintjob is cheaper and doesn’t use as much paint as the grey scheme, anyhow.

Just a few tidbits on the show ‘LAX.’ All the zoom out scenes are filmed on-location @ LAX. All the in-terminal plus curbside scenes, however, are filmed @ my nearby ONT. They use the new terminal in a few scenes but mostly it’s the old terminal that has also been used in “Catch Me If You Can.” The Ontario Convention Center is also used, for whatever reason. Interestingly enough, I saw the ex-UA 727 that is used in numberous scenes, parked at the old terminal over the summer while taxiing on one of my flights. I was wondering what the heck it was doing there at the time.

It looks fantastic on the 744, just as it does on UA’s other types. If anything, it’s even better on the 744 due to the added paint on the winglets. They did a great job on those.

ACE = Lanzarote 🙂

Thank you. That cliff/crater looks amazing.

Great shots Andrew! The Lauda 737s operate for Austrian, as they are all one big company now in Austria.

I was aware that Lauda was wholly owned by the Austrian Group, but was always under the impression that Austrian operated the scheduled services and Lauda did the charters.

Nice photos. Where’s ACE?

Are those Lauda 737’s charter flights?