Tight Security

[Mtnman928]

What? No camera phone?

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It's a might dark over there right now but I can tell you this, it's just a bit underwhelming.

However, the coolest part is just to the right of the main cabin entrance. There is a circle surrounding the US and between the U and S is an american flag. The circle is made up of the 4 major airlines forming the new USAir. The 12 o'clock position has PSA, the 3 o'clock has Piedmont, the 6 o'clock has the old USAir with the Allegheny "A" and the 9 o'clock has American West.

It will look better in the daylight.

Mtnman

 

[rjh]

However, the coolest part is just to the right of the main cabin entrance. There is a circle surrounding the US and between the U and S is an american flag. The circle is made up of the 4 major airlines forming the new USAir. The 12 o'clock position has PSA, the 3 o'clock has Piedmont, the 6 o'clock has the old USAir with the Allegheny "A" and the 9 o'clock has American West.

It will look better in the daylight.

Mtnman

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Is it more like the actual American flag, or that awful one that is currently used? Is the HP logo the current or original logo?

 

[Mtnman928]

Is it more like the actual American flag, or that awful one that is currently used? Is the HP logo the current or original logo?

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It was an American flag.
It's the current AW logo
And I should be admonished severly for referring to them as American West.
Mtnman

 

[rjh]

It was an American flag.
It's the current AW logo
And I should be admonished severly for referring to them as American West.
Mtnman

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I was thinking about doing that very thing--but I figured you knew the "real" name and just hit one too many keys 🙂

 

[Light Years]

As the national anthem says....

"And the flag was still there...."

The tail remains the same.

 

[HPearlyretiree]

I remember during the group interviews for FA's back in the 80's, applicants would stand up and say "I really want to work for (Air West), (American Air West), (American Western), (Air American) (American Airlines West).


Bear in mind, PHX was heavily served by Western, Hughes Air West, and American in the late 70's early 80's, as well as Southwest, Pacific Southwest, Wings West and Skywest, so there were a pile of West's out there!

Needless to say, that usually DQ'd them! 😛

 

[Light Years]

Washington Post has an article... Description but no pictures.

US/HP

All in all, it's the same tail, the navy is flipped to the bottom, the top is white (ish?), there's a "heritage circle"... the only mystery is what the wording looks like.

 

[EyeInTheSky]

In the Philly Enquirer

Posted on Tue, Aug. 23, 2005

IT'S ALL COMING TOGETHER


America West Airlines today unveils a new aircraft paint scheme for US Airways that blends elements of the two carriers' separate identities. The US Airways name will survive when the carriers merge this fall. The biggest change is the colors used: From US Airways' mostly dark blue fuselage, with a gray belly, the dominant colors now will be white with a blue belly. The US Airways name on the side of the fuselage and its stylized-flag logo on the tail will look much the same. America West now uses white as the dominant color on the fuselage of its planes. America West officials say that painting most of their planes white makes it easier to keep them cool when they're on the ground in the desert hubs of Las Vegas and Phoenix. America West officials will show off the new colors to both airlines' employees on a special flight today that will go from Philadelphia to Phoenix, with stops in Pittsburgh, Charlotte, N.C., and Las Vegas. (Philadelphia, Charlotte, Phoenix and Las Vegas will be hubs for the merged airline, and Pittsburgh will be a secondary hub.)


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Tom Belden

 

[EyeInTheSky]

HERE YA GO!

Love the Arizona Republic

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic//...st-newplane.jpg

http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles...t-newplane.html

Airline shows true colors
As merger nears, AmWest, US Airways unveil planes' new look

Dawn Gilbertson
The Arizona Republic
Aug. 23, 2005 12:00 AM

Call it Extreme Makeover: the Red, White and Blue version.

Employees of America West and US Airways today will get an up-close look at the patriotic new look the airlines will adopt after their upcoming merger.

The paint scheme change will be most dramatic for America West employees, as the new look is similar to US Airways' current look, but with the color scheme reversed. advertisement




Frequent fliers discussing the new paint job on Internet message boards Monday generally gave it good marks. On the streets in the Valley, here's what people were saying:

"It looks real presidential," said Jayne Buckner of Phoenix, who said she likes the design.

Ed Lopez of Litchfield Park wasn't quite as complimentary, saying the plane looked "decent. But I like America West's (planes) better. It's weird, because they were our airline."

Some people flat out didn't like the makeover. "It's too plain," said Teddy Blackwell of Phoenix. "It looks like everybody else's. They should make it a fancier design."

America West CEO Doug Parker and US Airways CEO Bruce Lakefield are doing the aviation version of a whistle-stop tour, shuttling the newly painted Airbus A320 to workers in hubs around the country. In one day.

They start this morning at US Airways' Philadelphia hub and hit Pittsburgh, Charlotte and Las Vegas before landing in Phoenix, with a water cannon salute, tonight.

Travis Christ, America West's vice president of marketing, said the goal of today's plane tour is to get employees fired up about the merger, which was announced in May. The new plane is the first significant public step the two airlines have taken together.

The combined airline, to be called US Airways, will be based in Tempe and run by Parker.

"They've had a lot of change over the years, at US Airways in particular," Christ said. "This is to get them excited and say, hey, this is really happening."

Instead of US Airways' dark navy fuselage, the new planes will be predominantly white, with a blue belly and a red and blue stripe. The blue is not as dark as US Airways' current planes. There were concerns that US Airways' old blue would be too dark for the summer heat in Phoenix and Las Vegas.

US Airways' traditional flags are still there, with some added gray squigglies meant to represent a flag waving. The logo is the same US Airways logo.

America West's planes are pearl-white with turquoise and red accents. The soon-to-be merged company decided on a variation of the US Airways paint scheme, or livery, because it is keeping that airline's name.

In a nod to America West's history, as well as the legacies of three airlines that make up what is now US Airways, four logos will be arranged in a small circle to the right of the cabin door. The airline is calling it a Heritage Logo.

"The problem with some airline mergers is they try to pretend that none of that (past) existed," Christ said. "We can all be very proud of the places we worked."

It will take years to repaint the combined fleet of 360 planes. The makeover on America West's fleet is schedule to begin in 2006.



Staff writer Hal Mattern contributed to this article.

 

[El Gato]

Kind of said it in the other forum, but I will say it here too. They choked the chicken on this paint job. Nothing new about it, nothing different or inspiring about it. Compare to this other airline http://www.airliners.net/open.file/245306/L/ . Not too different, eh? In other fields of work that is either homage or plagiarism, but in the airline biz it doesn't matter.