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Your Favourite Airline Livery?

Old Nov 28, 2013, 5:58 am
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Best and worst airline liveries

You have it about right. I like the DL logo because it is so clean.
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Old Nov 28, 2013, 6:11 am
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not absolute rank, but some notables:

good:
Lufthansa . simple , clean. lovely logo
Qantas.
ANA.
JAL.
certain United config.

undecided:
TAP. colorful and whimsical.
LOT.

bad:
Vietnam. not appealing color.
Southwest. a blue suppository
Thomas Cook. boring.
Alitalia. boring.
Niki.
Air Berlin.
Korean.
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Old Nov 28, 2013, 7:14 am
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I am in the minority. I like the new AA livery.
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Old Nov 28, 2013, 8:28 am
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JAL. I find the rising phoenix very attractive and, judging by current trip reports vs past history, very indicative of the airline's renaissance.

CX - Understated, clean. Dare I say quietly sophisticated? (in contrast with HK )

Worst:

Virgin Australia's solid red virgin blue planes.

easyjet - not a fan of orange
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Old Nov 28, 2013, 8:30 am
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Best and worst airline liveries

I like the new AA scheme too, but then I also loved BA's world logos. I thought that was a neat idea.
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Old Nov 28, 2013, 9:48 am
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I'm not a fan of the AS livery. LH and TG are my favorites.
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Old Nov 28, 2013, 10:40 am
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Originally Posted by Amelorn
JAL. I find the rising phoenix very attractive and, judging by current trip reports vs past history, very indicative of the airline's renaissance.

CX - Understated, clean. Dare I say quietly sophisticated? (in contrast with HK )

Worst:

Virgin Australia's solid red virgin blue planes.

easyjet - not a fan of orange
I agree, I forgot to add JAL to my list. Their crane design is quite good and I'm glad they brought it back.
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Old Nov 28, 2013, 11:03 am
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My favorites include JL circa 2002, IR and OZ's before the current one. GA's current one and two previous ones are alright, as is SV's.

The worst are the rest that I've seen, which is enough.

Though, none of this means that I limit the carriers with which I fly...
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Old Nov 28, 2013, 11:33 am
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The best is KLM. As the first commercial airline they had first dibs. Great color blue.
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Old Nov 28, 2013, 1:06 pm
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Best and worst airline liveries

Air Asia - especially the Oakland Raiders livery...
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Old Nov 28, 2013, 2:41 pm
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Best/worst airline livery?

Maybe in the minority, but I like AA's new livery. I truly despise the liveries of Jetstar, Southwest, and Sun Country. Have never even flown the latter two, just find them to be absolute eyesores whenever I've had the displeasure of plane spotting them.
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Old Nov 28, 2013, 3:21 pm
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I wasn't sold on the new AA livery when they debuted it, but now that I've seen it in person (and next to the old livery), I actually prefer it.
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Old Nov 28, 2013, 8:50 pm
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Originally Posted by antoinetonee
the worsts:
China Eastern, China Southern, Air China, Xiamen Airlines, and most of PRC airlines (looks very outdated)
Looked like someone took clip art from the 1990's and cut and pasted it on the tails.
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Old Nov 29, 2013, 8:25 am
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My favorites are BA, American (new one), and Air France.
Worst
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Old Nov 29, 2013, 9:14 am
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Originally Posted by zkzkz
You can't get shinier than the unpainted AA look -- and personally i think it's a lot cooler than knowing my ticket is paying to fly a heavy coat of paint back and forth across the atlantic.
I got bad news for ya. You were instead paying to fly a heavy coat of pure aluminum cladding back and forth across the Atlantic. Yep, AA got it's very own skin when they ordered airplanes. Not sure what the weight difference is between the paint and the metal cladding. But AA's planes were not simply "unpainted". (That's also one of the annoying facts 9-11 conspiracy theorists like to overlook whilst they rant about wreckage from the Pentagon)
But I digress...the big silver birds are eye-catching on a bright, sunny day, cutting a path across a deep blue sky.

Worst: Unidental. (Yeah, that's United). Strange how the word "continental" looked so aesthetically pleasing with that livery, but not "United".
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