Originally Posted by
IceTrojan
I never understood it,
no offense, but that seems like more of a personal issue
Originally Posted by
IceTrojan
and if the whole point of tail design is identity, then it failed miserably. If I didn't pass DL gates so many times on my way to my flight, I NEVER would have known that tail was attached to a DL plane. The design, the name... it has nothing to do with company branding.
...all of which is more of a rule than an exception among modern Legacy carriers, excluding perhaps older classics such as AA, AC, SQ, LH, and a very few others.
World Tails notwithstanding, who outside of its local catchment would identify BA's Chatham livery with the UK or its primary carrier? What non-local, having never seen an EK plane, would know its tail for the UAE or its primary airline? Etc