wolf72

Out of curiosity, what was the reason for the different colorway for the A380's vs the rest of the fleet as far as corporate colors are/were concerned?

It's something nobody at MH seems to want to talk about whenever I ask them about it.

Is it some big secret??

eminere

It's not a "big secret" when MH themselves produced a video showing the painting of the new livery on their first A380: link

Zawnet

Not really a secret

There was this share swap restructuring exercise involving Airasia. Part of this exercise was to "split" MH into long haul and short haul divisions. Long haul fleet (772s, 333s) was to be in blue just like that A380 livery. Short haul (738s) will be dressed in a red version of the A380 livery (just replace the blue or shades of blue with red). The painting of the A380 came during the time this exercise was already announced but was being finalised/ executed. But the restructuring was eventually cancelled due to various protests that it will result in some quasi monopoly controlled by Airasia folks, etc etc...

So in the end, the revised story for public consumption was that MH simply wanted a unique livery for its A380s...

Guy Betsy

And boy, is it ever ugly... Not to mention that the colours are not only NOT pleasing to the eye, it is not auspicious too !

MeltingAlf

Auspicious? You are forgetting the fact that Malaysia is a multiracial country that doesn't all entirely equate red to all things auspicious.

I don't like the blue as well - there was a period of time the MH website with that ugly all blue thingum - glad they got rid of it. Perhaps the all blue livery could be adopted by the Hajj and Umrah branch, after since the A380s are in that shade anyway?

nov11

I don't think Guy Betsy was referring to red. I think just the color in general. It's a very somber looking livery.

Guy Betsy

Ya. My point exactly ! ^

I wonder why MH doesn't adopt the colours of the Malaysian flag for example... It would be nice to see some yellow into it.

MeltingAlf

It didn't have the red of the other planes, and it had the same cerulean blue as the sky, so... :P I thought it wasn't that sombre although it did look pretty bland - a bit like applying a Eurowhite concept to blue.

We do all agree that the livery was pretty meh, though.

wolf72

Thank you all for sharing. Often wondered why there were two different corporate colors.