ACA to strip paint

[dfish]

Air Canada strips down to save fuel


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051110/wl_canada_afp/canadacompanyair_051110163858

TORONTO (AFP) - Air Canada will strip paint from its planes to lighten its load and save on fuel costs, a memorandum to employees announced this week. ................

Dave F

[Charles Darwin]

They should rather strip their flight attendants.:O

[Globaliser]

Hadn't they just spent a lot of money designing a new livery on their emergence from bankruptcy?

[lasernigel]

With a fleet of 312 aircraft and their projected saving of $20,000 U.S. per aircraft per year makes an impressive figure of $6.24M.That's got to be good news to any accountant.:ok:

[blueloo]

The fact that they will then have to pay for or hire new staff to keep the jets shiny I presume would be factored in......

[RevMan2]

Well, it's certainly paid off for American all these years.......

[MarkD]

lasernigel

they're looking to pay shareholders (the new ones, not the old ones who got hosed in C11) $300m so every penny is precious. Not to mention the deposits for the shiny new Boeings!

I imagine when the nude 76s go back to the desert from whence some had returned recently, it will be hotter than the white liveried days?

[PaperTiger]

If I may ahem.. expand on the report, the paint is being removed from one 767 (#613 for the spotters) as a trial. If all goes well, other 767s will be similarly treated as and when they become due for repaint.

You can't strip an Airbus down to metal/carbon/plastic/whatever.

[SLFStuckInTheBack]

RE: You can't strip an Airbus down to metal/carbon/plastic/whatever

I thought about this and a previous comment about American - and I wondered what American will do when they take possession of 787’s - will they paint those aircraft shiny silver?

On a more slightly more serious note though - are there any ramifications for long term structural integrity if you do not paint metal/carbon/plastic/whatever - does UV affect carbon fibre etc?

[MarkD]

SLFStuck

AA (and AC from 2010) will probably do with their 787s what they do with their rather less plastic A300s -

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/956547/M/

[Idle Thrust]

What goes around ............

Back in the '70s or so, Air Canada was widely touted for having developed (or commisssioned) a special paint to protect the belly from agents used on runways during the winter. Prior to that the belly had been bare aluminum, subsequently was painted grey.