Before I get started, let me say - Great pictures.
Whoever "we" are, from different continents, and different countries, I think that "we" like the airlines of our youth.
I remember looking up into the New York sky's
(before even JFK was built) and picking out the airlines & airplane types. Somewhere around 2,000 to 2,500 feet above our house.
So naturally, I still like the "old" airplanes. And, naturally, the old colors.
Luckily for me, Caltabiano Nunzio, did a paint job
(aircraft included) for the
DeHavilland Dash 7.
And this plane, along with my
Orbx city of Concrete Airport, is my "home base".
For authenticity, not all that correct. Although Piedmont Airlines did have Dash 7s, and Piedmont was part of the American Eagle system
(which was/is US Airways Express, a branch of American Airlines), so this color scheme could have, almost, been real.
Whatever. Thank you Caltabiano Nunzio.
As to the new AA color scheme,
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People & companies often change things just to prove that they are still alive. Vibrant is the useless and overused word for it, I suppose.
So this change fits in with all the other "vibrant" airlines.
Many years from now, a little kid will look up into the sky and say - "I don't like the new paint scheme".