New SkyTeam livery.

[cHabu]

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On Apr. 1, flight Delta DL74, a B764ER with registration N844MH, from Atlanta to Milano Malpensa
was the first commercial flight of a plane sporting the new Sky Team livery.

Delta was the first company to wear the new livery but all the SkyTeam fleet will introduce an
aircraft with the new livery before the end of 2009.

Nine aircraft will get the new livery with the following timeline:

Delta B767-400 Mar. 2009
Aeroméxico B767-200 May 2009
Alitalia B767-300 Apr. 2009
Czech Airlines ATR42 Apr. 2009
Air France B777-300 Jun. 2009
China Southern B777-200ER Jun. 2009
KLM B777-300 Aug. 2009
Aeroflot A330-200 Nov. 2009
Korean Air A330 Oct. 2009

It takes 10 days, on average, to customize the aircraft with the new livery.
Each aircraft gets 3 layers of paint: base, color and finish. The B767-400 required 265 lt. of paint
(of which, 151.5 silver colour for the fuselage, 75.5 lt. of grey for the wings and 7.85 lt.
of dark blue colour paint for the lace and SkyTeam logo).

Credit: David Cenciotti.

Full story & photo HERE.

Bye, Chris.

[cHabu]

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Czech Airlines is the only carrier, painting a short haul aircraft.

Very curious if the mentioned aircraft will remain the only aircraft, painten in the Skyteam colors....

Chris.

[Boudewijn van Oirschot]

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Czech Airlines is the only carrier, painting a short haul aircraft.

Very curious if the mentioned aircraft will remain the only aircraft, painten in the Skyteam colors....

Chris.

I think KLM will also paint a newer 737 NG in Skyteam colours or maybe an E-jet
Skyteam would like to see every member carry out at least 1 % of the fleet.
Air France has got a fleet of 260 aircrafts so I assume at least 3 planes will be painted in ST c/s.

[tva2]

Delta N844MH Boeing 767-432/ER in Skyteam's signature livery

Image Credit & Copyright (c) 2009 Robert Reid

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