You have to repaint planes every few years no matter what. Some of those planes are wearing decade old paint jobs- they'd need to be touched up anyway, and it's be much cheaper than applying a cheesy new one. It also would have been far cheaper to just paint the smaller west fleet, which was the original plan. However, they had to appease the desert crowd by putting tacky swooshes or heat waves or whatever. They used the ridiculous excuse that you can't fly dark colored planes into hot places. Uh, yeah OK. Rather than hire a professional firm to update it, or even adapt some of the better fanmade ones, the usual taste-challenged crowd sat around with Paintshop and came up with this travesty. They'll outsource all of our jobs but they had to do this in-house, after a few beers by the looks of it. It goes against all design rules, clashes terribly, and is completely uninspired. So, yeah, I guess it does represent the airline well.
