Custom Painted Passenger Airplanes

It’s cheaperUsing additional colours means extra weight. “Paint adds between 273 and 544 kilograms of weight to an aircraft,” a spokesperson for Boeing told Telegraph Travel. Extra weight means more fuel is burned, and 544kg equates to around eight passengers.The paint itself costs money, too, and repainting an aircraft uses a lot of it. All told, repainting a plane costs between US$50,000