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Old 23rd October 2019, 12:37 PM
James Smith James Smith is offline
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This year they have repainted very few QANTAS and QLink aircraft and virtually none since early July, 2019 when NXL was done. There was an A380 repainted in Pusan this year, I recall.

Aircraft remaining to be repainted from my records are:
QLINK
17 x 717s (3 repainted)
11 x F100s (6 repainted)
1 x Dash 8 200s (2 repainted)
0 x Dash 8 300s (All 11 repainted)
5 x Dash 8 Q400s (26 repainted)

QANTAS
3 x A380s (9 repainted)
7 x A333s (3 repainted)
14 x A332s (4 repainted)
42 x 738s excluding retros and indigenous liveries (only 30 repainted)

This gives a total of 34 QLink and 66 mainline aircraft to repaint. QANTAS is not halfway through the repainting process. At two weeks per aircraft and no stoppage over Christmas/New Year it means the 100 outstanding aircraft would need four continuous paint hangers (25 per hanger) to do all aircraft by November, 2020.

If just mainline aircraft are repainted, over one facility would be needed.

It takes 2.5 to 3 weeks to strip and paint a 738 or A332 size aircraft so my estimates are quiet tight. I can't see this being finalised in 12 months, unfortunately.
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