Time-lapse of US Airways aircraft painted in new American Airlines livery

While still operating some flights as US Airways, American has begun to paint US Airways aircraft in the new American Airlines livery. Watch the transformation as this Airbus A319 gets its new look.

[kennethayers]

US Airways is alive and kicking underneath all that AA paint. Who do you think is running the Airline now. It's not AA management.

[dbaum]

Painting an excellent livery away; I hope US Airways/American at least leaves a few in the US Airways Livery!

[kianoneo]

WHY, WHY. WE WILL ALWAYS Remember What Happened Flight 1549. R.I.P US AIRWAYS

[Jamlidd]

Will your 757's be repainted into your new livery? Thanks.  

[eyestoenvy]

Nothing beats the previous iconic polished silver with the red, white & blue striped AA livery of the 80's - early 2000's

[TJlive]

Awesome I love these Airplane repainting video, also it would be cool to see videos for every Airplane in the fleet repainted .

[robloxgame]

R.I.P US Airways (1939-2015) Allways the Best airlines

[biscayneboeing]

Ahhh the memories. I once worked on the paint crew at Eastern Airlines in Miami.  Love the new AA schematic.

[Marpoclaws]

I love how clean the white looks next to the red

[rafayaziz]

I loved U.S. Airways =( It had beautiful colors, and it was one of my favorites!

[andrewbetrosian]

So cool, I did this in the southeast some years back and just loved this job. 727, DC 9, DC 10 and a little on 747.

[anitagang]

Us airways may have retired, they may not have a website or check in counters anymore but their planes are still running. One time I got on an Airbus a321 with the American livery I expected to be on a new plane but when I got on it was the old us airways interior so we can't say that us airways don't exist anymore because they are still flying even though they don't do their marketing anymore.

[caleblastname]

Guys, I don’t know what the big fuss is about. There’s still two a320s rocking the US Airways livery. Go spot them sometime.

[ilikefly]

Am I the only one who loves the new American paint, and doesn't care for the grey striped livery

[NYCentralSpotter]

This looks like an A319 that used to belong to America West Airlines before that merged with US Airways in 2006, due to it being registered N---AW (the AW meaning America West).

[SOU]

Nothing quite like that tail design. Love it!!

[inactivefatimahgianna]

Thanks to American, my favorite airline

[pcorf]

The stripping process is interesting here, it appears that no chemical stripper was sprayed on. Looks like they sanded the paint completely off the old fashioned way and sanded it to the bare metal before pressure washing. Also at 0:23 you can see the old America West titles.

[fromtheflightdeck]

Clever idea to time-lapse the paintjob!  Neat!

[troysvisualarts]

Interesting thing about the old US Airways livery, it looks a little similar to the British Airways livery as both airlines used the red, white and blue colour scheme and the underbody being painted deep blue. Anyways cool watching this video seeing how an aircraft paint job is done! :)