Final week, Airbus opened its paint hangar doorways in Mirabel and let us peek inside the place the most recent plane is being painted for Air Canada. As an alternative of the standard black and white ‘Raccoon masks’ livery that Air Canada is now sporting throughout its fleet, the airline has opted to nod to its historical past, revealing its particular Trans-Canada Air Strains design.
The livery design featured on the earlier incarnation of Air Canada, earlier than it modified its identify in 1965 to the model we all know at the moment. This mid-century throwback is a nod to the heritage the airline has constructed up over time, and follows latest tendencies whereby most main carriers have painted a number of plane in a ‘Retrojet’ paint scheme.
This design is actually putting, choosing a gray fuselage with Crimson cheat strains operating the complete size of the plane. It’s not the primary plane to function this design just lately, in actual fact, again in 1997 the airline painted an A319 in precisely the identical scheme earlier than sadly retiring it final month.
This A220 will quickly be part of the fleet, which already options 16 plane of the sort, and the identical once more nonetheless on order.