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One of the 2 'early arrivals' (don't remember if it's this one or the other) will indeed temporarily go to EW for about 10 months after which it returns to SN. The other one will be used by SN during the summer. Both will operate with a slightly adapted Cathay interior (e.g. IFE update to EW and SN UI respectively and small re-configuration of Economy/Premium Economy to align better with the respective EW (incl. C class) and SN configurations). When the wet-lease aircraft returns from EW it will get the full new SN interior (complete retrofit of the cabin), the one used by SN in a temporary Cathay interior will be retrofitted later in the cabin overhaul program (a full cabin retrofit for this summer is not yet possible as it's more time consuming and mainly because the new cabin is not ready yet, as the fleet roll-over actually only starts at the end of 2018 and the cabin development has been timed on that EIS target).
... and the SN livery when it returns to SN in 10 months? And Carsten Spohr will complain that SN has bad results...
But that one is going to SN and not EW. And you always have to start slow when you know there's big attachment to the brand. So start with one plane and see how it goes, a few months later a second one, etc... At least that's what I would do in Carsten's place
Eurowings pays the Eurowings paint, Brussels Airlines pays the Brussels Airlines paint. Brussels Airlines' balance sheet is not going to be negatively affected by the extra paint. There have been many scenario's, but Eurowings chose to pay for the full paint. What is your problem?