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Thursday, July 24, 2025

CAL saves $350,000 with in-house painting

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Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) will soon un­veil one of its Boe­ing 737 air­craft which is cur­rent­ly be­ing paint­ed, com­plete­ly in-house, a first for the air­line.Of­fi­cials of the state-owned car­ri­er said bring­ing the paint­ing process in-house, CAL will achieve cost sav­ings of ap­prox­i­mate­ly $350,000, in­clud­ing sav­ings from not fly­ing the air­craft to an ex­ter­nal ser­vice provider, which in­curs costs for in­ci­den­tals such as fu­el and crew ex­pens­es.

The main­te­nance and en­gi­neer­ing teams in­volved in the paint­ing and brand­ing of the air­craft were spe­cial­ly trained by PPG Aero­space, glob­al sup­pli­ers of the coat­ings and sur­face ma­te­ri­als nec­es­sary to pre­pare and paint the air­craft in CAL's liv­ery.PPG, world lead­ers in en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly-friend­ly coat­ings, pro­vid­ed free train­ing and de­vel­op­ment of lo­cal skills in the ap­pli­ca­tion and process of their aero­space ma­te­ri­als.

CAL's VP Main­te­nance & En­gi­neer­ing, Colville Car­ring­ton said: "Our part­ner­ship with PPG comes at an op­por­tune time, and we are pleased to of­fer our teams train­ing of this type, as lo­cal skill de­vel­op­ment lends it­self to lo­cal in­dus­try de­vel­op­ment and self-sus­tain­abil­i­ty."The air­craft will be ful­ly paint­ed, with­out any ad­he­sive de­cals, and will al­so be hand pol­ished reg­u­lar­ly to main­tain fu­el sav­ings by re­duc­ing "drag"–the mea­sure­ment of wind re­sis­tance to the air­craft as it flies through the air.


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