Originally Posted by
united4
It's become even more apparent that they should've done every effort to erase "Continental" quick and fast. All the CO planes should be in tulip livery and the name of the company should still be UAL Corporation.
The Cranky quote upthread in post #13 explains why this is wrong. I agreed with putting the tulip out of its misery at the time because it represented so much bad juju, but did not foresee the debacle to come. If and when UA gets past this nadir it will need another rebranding to signal the rebound, which will be... let's see... United's sixth discrete livery / brand treatment since the 1970s.
Tulip lovers forget that United, uniquely among US carriers, dumps and changes its livery more often than some of us trade in our cars.
Originally Posted by
jlivengo
Just looking at the arguments on this board prove this article is spot on.
Yeah, we have more than our share of culture warriors right here. It's like two high school football rivals merged into one campus. This sniping is the very thing that's strangling the airline itself.