Re: Re: My travel why so many liverys

Originally posted by Bmused55
Re-painting a fleet is not easy. You don’t just pull a revenue generating plane from the schedules and keep it indoors for up to a week to repaint it. Its not economical.

Usually, airlines will wait until planes are due for maintenance before repainting them. That way, they’re already out of circulation.

The most common time for a plane to receive the new livery of its owner is when it goes in for a D check.
This is when the plane is stripped right down to the bone. Paint is stripped off. All furnishing inside are removed. It’s reduce to a shell.
So, when the check is over, its time to paint the aircraft again ready for service. Thats when it would receive the new livery.
D checks are however, far between. Once every 5-7 years I think.

Thus it takes time to repaint a fleet of aircraft.

Mostly what MYT have been doing is removing the Airtours titles of their aircraft over night (as they are merely stickers) and applying the My travel titles, also big stickers.

As for that tech issue you mention… no idea. Matthew?

Best seat on a Britannia 757

Cool, looking forward to it, and also as we are landing at Tououlse might just get to see some new airbus stuff.
How old are the Britannia 757’s mut be getting on abit now, any idea what the replacements are going to be now that the 757 is at the end of it’s production run?

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thanks for the update, only problem with the Boeing site is that it will be a standard layout charter carriers use different layouts.

regards

wilag