American Airlines Retro Liveries. The knock-on…After reaching a deal with its pilots securing a 20% pay cut during the COVID-19 crisis, an 8% average pay reduction in the long-term and 270 redundancies, British Airways is pushing ahead with its plan to change the terms and conditions for more than 10,000 among cabin crew, engineers and…As the rebuilding of Brazilian commercial aviation continues, Azul Brazilian Airlines, Brazil's third-largest airline before the COVID-19 pandemic struck in…Swiss International Airlines announced its consolidated financial results for the first half of financial year 2020. It seems that over time we get used to new liveries and often forget what they used to look like. CF on Mar 31, 2017 Apr 1, 2017 -47 Comments on American to Paint 737 in Trump Shuttle Retro Livery. Delta Airlines bought some of the routes from Pan Am and a portion of the business. Wouldn’t it be great to see something like that again.Wow, what a great trip to see TWA looking brand new and beautiful.Nice work David! They have been great eye candy for AvGeeks, and this week, AA has shown off probably the most iconic livery, that of Trans World Airlines (TWA). […] has joined the list of airlines with retro livery aircraft with the introduction of a Boeing 747 in its old […]@ 2020 Destinworld Publishing Ltd - All Right Reserved. Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras: Brazilian flag carrier. That also means we will keep a heritage American livery in the fleet. Photo (c) Adam Moreira. American Airlines has taken over the tradition of US Airways in featuring “heritage liveries” (that is the wording they use instead of “retro livery”). Repainting of the 737s is now complete! Being based in GRB, one livery that is near and dear to my avgeek heart is the North Central Airlines livery with Herman the Duck (we called it the blue goose). In our first example, we look at American Airlines. With you re ability David I am sure we can look forward to their write up’s making us long for those days with those kind of aircraft.It is always good to remember the “true symbols” stamped on the fuselage of aircraft flights airline that has survived, overcome crises and continue flying in the outside world.I flew on the TWA 707 with the above livery from ORD to MDT (Harrisburg, PA) in the early 1980’s multiple times. Thank you all so much for over 5,000 channel views! But sometimes it’s hard to forget. American Airlines has taken over the tradition of US Airways in featuring “heritage liveries” (that is the wording they use instead of “retro livery”). I think the hardest part, visually, for American is they have the retro liveries, but still keep their “American” titles.Reno Air livery on a Boeing 737-800 – Photo: American AirlinesThe Reno Air heritage livery wasn’t revealed this week (earlier in the month), but I still wanted to show it off. That livery would look awesome on the Delta 717 (similar to a DC-9-30)!A little time has elapsed since you posted here but I just ran across it, looking for airline material for one of my clients.Very interesting, as a former TWA International Flight Attendant, fun to see some TWA airplanes..And my wife reminds me–Braniff! The design was flown by the airline during the 1960s.The livery seen on a Boeing 720 (AP-AMG), taken in 1964 – Photo: I always love seeing when an airline shows off a retro livery, either to provide a little special marketing, remember their heritage, or to bring back fond memories. Airlines love to give respect to their heritage by painting their aircraft in former liveries, marking how the airline used to look.Sometimes they will paint aircraft in the livery of an airline which was merged into the current carrier, or the former name of the current carrier.Some have sadly been lost as the standard livery is repainted back on the aircraft, or when the aircraft is scrapped or sold.