Yes. We’re going back to that well once again.
This 3-minute-and-26 second video shows one of Northwest’s Boeing 747-400s being repainted with Delta livery. (And if that’s not exciting enough for you, check out the keyboard work in the soundtrack.) A hearty hat-tip goes out to the folks at Aviation Reviews.com, where we first saw this this video.
As we’ve written before, the freshly painted Delta 747-400 marks the first time since 1977 that Delta has flown one of these birds. A Delta spokesman told us the jet will be used on routes between the U.S. and Asia, and within Asia from Tokyo. “In the coming weeks it could be spotted on any of the following routes: Detroit-Osaka; Detroit-Nagoya; Detroit-Tokyo; Hong Kong-Tokyo; Honolulu-Tokyo; Osaka-Taipei; Los Angeles-Tokyo; Manila-Nagoya; Manila-Tokyo; Minneapolis-St.Paul-Tokyo; and Tokyo-Shanghai,” he wrote in an e-mail.
We received a lot of comments on the posts we’ve previously written on this topic. Some commenters wondered whether there would be improvements to the interior amenities on the 747-400. We put that question to Delta spokeswoman Betsy Talton and she replied: “By early 2010, we plan to have new leather seat covers, carpet, curtains, etc. on nearly all of the Northwest aircraft.” No word on whether the upgrades will include seatback entertainment systems, however.
