Your Favourite Airline Liveries.

Shannon757

So guys, what are your favourite liveries.

Mine:

Or:http://www.airliners.net/photo/Qatar-Airways/Boeing-777-3DZ-ER/2606717/L/&sid=96b2d67cac4c44f545a53374a59cbbd1

Your opinions please?

Comhrá

I like Vietnam Airlines' new livery:

http://www.planespotters.net/Aviation_Photos/search.php?tag=vietnam+airlines

smurfjed

I was extremely fond of this one.....



But now I'm getting used to this one......

Ruu

Frontier Airlines. Ones below are older, I think the Frontier letters are green these days with emphasis on the 'F'.



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irlrobins

I like the look of Scoot's 787

Seanie_H

Loving this Air New Zealand job

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/2/5/6/2420652.jpg

dzilla

I like the simplicity the American Eagle Livery. It is the same as AA but I think the smaller planes amplify the American Flag design on the tail better.



Don't know what these guys where thinking however :o

Shannon757

Seanie_H wrote: »

Loving this Air New Zealand job

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/2/5/6/2420652.jpg

Good choice but have to say I prefer this one:

sully2010

Always liked this retro Cathay scheme from back in the day. Green on aluminium. So many boring liveries around now.

Tenger

Are we talking livery or special paint jobs?

I love the black Air NZ scheme.

Shannon757

Tenger wrote: »

Are we talking livery or special paint jobs?

I love the black Air NZ scheme.

I suppose we can include both.:D

crosstownk

This. I love it.



Image is from Don Cashen's Flickr.

dzilla

crosstownk wrote: »

This. I love it.



Image is from Don Cashen's Flickr.

Its fantastic in fairness

Comhrá

Back in the day Equatoriana had some really psychedelic colour schemes.
As far as I remember, they were the first airline to diversify and break the mould:

Aphex

That Scoot 787 is a beauty!

donvito99

Landor Associates were responsible for many of the all time great liveries IMO.







Other notable mentions:







Liveries are no good nowadays

0lddog

The other day I was reflecting on how Norwegian had wasted an opportunity with their livery.

This got me thinking about the very question OP raises.

I reckon ACLs Europe Airpost is up with the best of them

http://www.planephotos.net/photo/7251/Europe-Airpost_Boeing-737-300_EI-STA/

Shannon757

0lddog wrote: »

The other day I was reflecting on how Norwegian had wasted an opportunity with their livery.

How?

US Airways Boeing 757-2B7 N939UW by Shamrock147, on Flickr

catbear

Loved seeing this waiting to take me home from London, thank you Ryanair.

sully2010

Deleted User wrote: »

US Airways Boeing 757-2B7 N939UW by Shamrock147, on Flickr

Wasn't mad about this when I first saw it but its growing on me, as is the new Etihad but its definitely a bit of a marmite livery!

Tenger

That image makes it look very silvery.

I'm similar with the new AA, its growing on me.

I happen to like the bmi livery before they were bought out. I thought it looked bright and modern, while staying away from the dreaded 'Euro-white'

Ruu

dzilla wrote: »

I like the simplicity the American Eagle Livery. It is the same as AA but I think the smaller planes amplify the American Flag design on the tail better.



Don't know what these guys where thinking however :o

Romulans?

fleet_admiral

crosstownk wrote: »

This. I love it.



Image is from Don Cashen's Flickr.

Felt privileged to fly on that back from Heathrow last year. Beautiful looking plane and lovely inside too given its young age

Tenger

crosstownk wrote: »

This. I love it.



Image is from Don Cashen's Flickr.

I think I have to give EI-DVM my vote too.
I love the lines of this livery on the A320.


In addition I know the EI staffer who pushed for it to be implemented under 2 different CEO's. So I know a little about the background and have a certain affection for it.
He actually received a email from the EI CEO (in Nov 2010) with the draft livery from Airbus paint design office. He thus let me know the retro livery when it was still an unknown to the spotters. He tipped me off so I managed to get video footage of EI-DVM arriving after dark back in May 2011.

So I am definitely biased in my regard for this livery.

fits

Scandinavian airlines also have a plane at the moment with the old style livery. Its gorgeous!

Outside of that air new Zealand and Norwegian.

Oh and I really really hate the Aer Lingus colour scheme and livery. The stewards uniforms in particular are badly in need of updating. The plane above looks much better.

L1011

I quite liked the pre-merger United livery (although I didn't like pre-merger United...); it looked a bit odd at first particularly as we're usually used to white on bottom, colour on top these days but it grew on me.

The design firm behind it wrote an article on it and the other work they did tied in to it when United took on the Continental scheme:

http://new.pentagram.com/2011/03/fifteen-years-of-flying-united-1/

The Continental scheme on the other hand is a dated mess, with someone else's name (United) stuck over it.

Tenger

L1011 wrote: »

I quite liked the pre-merger United livery (although I didn't like pre-merger United).........
The Continental scheme on the other hand is a dated mess, with someone else's name (United) stuck over it.

I would agree, the blue and white 'tulip' design was very crisp. The current iteration is awful.

There's an interesting diversion, UA and CO merged and choose 1 livery with the others name. It looks awful. AA and US merged and continued with the launch of a new livery, which while controversial is still a more positive step than the bastadised UNITED livery we see today.

Simon Gruber Says

I loved the look of TWA's last livery.



In my opinion the current Aer Lingus livery never looked better than it did on the Tristar. It really suited the aircraft.

arubex

I thought the tail and logo of the 'Blue Rising' United livery was splendid, but the lower-fuselage blues didn't appeal; to me it looked like someone had discovered gradients in their painting program and was eager to apply them.

It also quite untidy when viewed from underneath, as there were two long bare-metal ventral patches:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/United_Airlines_B757-200_on_down_the_glideslope.jpg

In general I think that blue in a livery is a mistake, as it reduces contrast against the sky. For example, Windrose:

http://www.airplane-pictures.net/photo/134927/ur-wrh-windrose-air-airbus-a321/

Thought I might make an excception for Braniff...

sully2010

crosstownk wrote: »

This. I love it.



Image is from Don Cashen's Flickr.

Its a great livery alright and even better on the 747.

highlydebased

It's not till you see Aer Lingus parked among all the boring eurowhite etc that you realise how unique it really is


(https://www.flickr.com/photos/martin_hartland/6777484813/in/faves-39896705@N05/)

Some of the Air Malta special schemes are brilliant too


https://www.flickr.com/photos/drinu_c/16282498915/in/pool-airmalta

ozzy jr

Always liked Eva Air,



but not every livery they've produced!

b318isp

A few for me:

billie1b

sully2010 wrote: »

Its a great livery alright and even better on the 747.

Love this angle of her

MuffinsDa

Simple Elegance:

RadioRetro

Love this old one (especially as I flew on them as a kid)...

gamblor101

Loving this thread. Have to say that the old liveries are head and shoulders above many of the current one.

man98

I must say I've always loved the Niki livery.

People's Vienna line isn't bad either. A bit quirky on the E170, I'm must say.

I'll just say on top of those, the EI 757 is brilliant.
WOW Force One is notable simply because it's WOW.

While I'm on a livery binge let's throw in the Danish Air Transport ATR 42-300.

On a side note the tail is like the North Korean flag.

billie1b

I'll give this one an aul upload, I know she's up above but I think she looks savage from that angle and that hour of the day

crosstownk

billie1b wrote: »

I'll give this one an aul upload, I know she's up above but I think she looks savage from that angle and that hour of the day

Nice photo.

Todd Gack

Quite like the Qantas livery especially on the a380

Rawr

Although a bit basic, I've always liked the current SAS livery



Rather like the Thai livery too:



Kinda like the Norwegian livery as well. Mostly because it's easy to spot them in a crowd with that red nose

Icepick

special

billie1b

Kinda like the Norwegian livery as well. Mostly because it's easy to spot them in a crowd with that red nose

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In work its nick named 'The Tampon'

dzilla

peter1892

I always liked Finnair's 'Moomin' MD-11:



And now they have a 'angry birds' plane!

fits

And another.
https://twitter.com/asamae2kn/status/580364170865946624/photo/1

Ticking and Bashing

Korean Air & KLM

Zonda999

There are many liveries I like but I've always particularly like the Egyptair livery on their 777-300ER

Lustrum

Cathay Spirit of Hong Kong



Hawaiian



Air Pacific, but then everything looks great on a 747

And I'm amazed nobody has mentioned Nok yet!