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Following on what bmvaughn is doing for the 737/747 groundings I thought it would be appropriate to start a thread that tracked the A320's progress in having the interiors converted and repainted back to mainline colors. I am happy to update the list here, but would love it if people could help posting the flight aware tracking, and tail numbers so I can update the post.

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Wiki Link to Conversions

bmvaughn

Wondering if anyone has flown on a repainted Ted plane; I don't believe reconfigurations have started yet.

I was considering starting to track the paintings - considering that there have been a few A320s that have been sent to ROW recently....

mahasamatman

I believe the original announcement said that won't start until spring.

FightingIlliniUAL

They won't repaint until it is absolutely neccessary (i.e., D check)

MatthewLAX

I would hope that they repaint the rest of the gray birds first.

planemechanic

Paint is completely unrelated to D-checks. They are done on a different schedule at different locations by different companies.

acnev

Flew one last Thursday between PHX and DEN. I first thought it was a substitution so asked the gate agent if there was first class but it wasn't the case. Just a normal TED aircraft with the new paint scheme.

bmvaughn

Was that flight 1438, 1496, 1450, 1458, 1434 or 1466?

I'm planning to look up the flight in ACARS to see if I can find the tail number

acnev

Flight 1434 - the 3:25 pm departure

jhayes_1780

Any chance you want to start/maintain a 32S to 320 conversion thread (or Wiki) like the 737 thread? I'll keep an eye one ROW for 9800-9999 flights

fnothaft

While I'm not sad to see TED go, I'll miss the paint scheme. Its so... lively!

bmvaughn

Unfortunately 1434 isn't in ACARS. Any chance you caught the tail number?

Considering it... but going to concentrate on one tracking thread at a time Not to mention that I rarely fly Ted routes...

acnev

Sorry, didn't catch the tail # when I flew last Thursday. Will keep my eye open to see if they have the same one this week.

bmvaughn

Hooooray! Thanks for doing this!

Here's a complete list of the 56 (soon to be ex-)Ted A320s, so folks can take note if they fly on an A320 that's re-painted and re-configured (otherwise, how would you know ).

spin88

well you may have answered a question....

On October 10 I flew UA 1510 SFO to PHX and as we were leaving we had a mechanical (pilot door would not lock) and they had to sub in a plane. Luckally they can grab another aircraft at SFO so we were only an hour and half late.

So I show up for my return flight same day, UA 1586 and when I get to the gate plane is the new blue color scheme (which by the way is butt ... ugly...., it looks better in ted colors), since I am 1K and was in an exit row, I went up and ask the GA if I had gotten a seat switch (figuring they had substituted in a mainline plane and I've gotten a free bump when this has happend before as they do by status). She just look confused and when I boarded it was Ted inside.

So I thought, boy is that weird, am I seeing things...

and on a hot day, it was nice to get a water, then coffee, then more water and think.... boy am I glad I'm not on US