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Anonymous Fri 12 Sep 2008 02:10:00 No.48774 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>48855

Liveries. What do you say, /n/?

I like what United's got going.

American, Continental, Northwest and Southwest are tired IMO, and Delta's latest is pretty unoriginal and uninspiring.

I'd say Alaska is just about due for an overhaul...

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Kartma !wvTgDQHyaM Fri 12 Sep 2008 02:31:00 No.48775 Report

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Frontier's is awesome. I like how they change it up from plane to plane.

I could never really associate blue with Southwest. I always thought of that airline as shagadelic red and puke brown. Those colors reflected the ghetto nature of that airline.

Northwest Airlines? More like Niggas With Attitudes! I liked their old abstract 1990's livery better. that livery said "Yeah, we're an airline. What of it?"

Continental's livery was one that did the job.

I thought it was weird how they made the girl in the Hawaiian Airlines logo look older. The old livery had a certain kind of jet age look to it. A look that hearkened back to simpler times of air travel.

And I always dig how JetBlue has that low-key tail variation. That airline always strikes me as Southwest for Hipsters.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Sep 2008 03:11:00 No.48778 Report

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I see these Greyhounds and they remind me of Frontier...

US and UA were wise to get rid of the gray but it seems that they've just gone from drab to ordinary.

Hot Hawaiian lady is hot.

AA will not likely ever move from the polished aluminum look since there's no point in losing the fuel economy gained from less paint, plus they've pretty much branded themselves into that livery for good.

WN...colorful and cheap, like a street whore.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Sep 2008 05:38:00 No.48787 Report

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Anonymous Fri 12 Sep 2008 06:43:00 No.48806 Report

Quoted By: >>48822

As a DAL employee, I'll say I'm glad we decided to bring back the widget...I'm just glad they got rid of the "flag" tail (was a PITA to paint, and re-balance rudders).

I could care less for Americans livery...it's outdated, and it shows. Same with Southwest.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Sep 2008 07:24:00 No.48822 Report

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>>48806

Agreed, it looks much cleaner. I have to wonder if this is the livery they've chosen to be the post-merger one.

I work for USAir, (former HP). All the AWA planes were the first to get the new livery treatment and then the "East metal" (old USAir) are being painted according to specific need, or at least were until fuel prices put repaintings on hold.

They wanted aircraft with white tops so they could better withstand the heat in PHX and LAS. Still, a lot of the spare parts were painted in AWA orange and turquoise, so Frankenplanes are not uncommon...

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Anonymous Fri 12 Sep 2008 07:34:00 No.48827 Report

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What a Hawaiian 717 in the old colors would've looked like.

IMO, the tail of the current colors makes up for the plain fuselage. (The unique font for the titles also helps.)

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Anonymous Fri 12 Sep 2008 07:59:00 No.48841 Report

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American hasnt changed this livery since the 70's. And I'll bet they arent gonna change it since they're cheap bastards.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Sep 2008 08:23:00 No.48845 Report

Quoted By: >>48864

I guess American hasn't changed liveries because of brand recognition... not many airlines have a polished metal livery.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Sep 2008 09:33:00 No.48855 Report

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>>48774
I still love American.

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FZR1K !tgnywOHJ.M Fri 12 Sep 2008 10:04:00 No.48859 Report

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american's is timeless. US Air's is pretty cool as well.

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Kartma !wvTgDQHyaM Fri 12 Sep 2008 10:46:00 No.48864 Report

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>>48845

Hawaiian had a polished metal livery for a while. Of course it was because the DC-10's they were operating (as part of their transition between the L-1011 and the 767 as their main line widebody) were hand-me-downs from American.

For a long time, American did operate one jet type that didn't have the polished metal look: the Airbus A300. The polished metal look was hard to pull off with the composite fuselage skin, until some time in the mid-to-late 90's.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Sep 2008 12:09:00 No.48876 Report

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>>48864
>>Hawaiian had a polished metal livery for a while. Of course it was because the DC-10's they were operating (as part of their transition between the L-1011 and the 767 as their main line widebody) were hand-me-downs from American.

I was of the impression it wasn't a transition as much as it was Hawaiian desperately needing something that didn't break down as often as their L-1011s, and American just provided the planes as part of the deal to get out of Chapter 11.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Sep 2008 12:15:00 No.48878 Report

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Aloha Airlines: 1946-2008

This is the livery they changed to in the early 90's, and they had it at the time they folded.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Sep 2008 12:16:00 No.48879 Report

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This is a retro livery Aloha had one of their planes wear for a few years before they folded.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Sep 2008 12:17:00 No.48880 Report

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. . . Then there's this bizarre combination. I wonder if David Banmiller has seen this plane.

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Kartma !wvTgDQHyaM Fri 12 Sep 2008 13:14:00 No.48895 Report

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>>48879

Yeah, up until the mid-90's, both of the major airlines based in Hawaii had liveries that said "We're not just airlines, brah. We're airlines from HAWAII!" The state that epitomized tourism and is all about pretty colors and surfing and Hula girls.

Incidentally, fuck David Banmiller. His touch is death on every airline he has served in the board of. Pan Am, AirCal, Aloha, yeah. He may not have been a complete doofus like Frank Lorenzo, but he was just as toxic.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Sep 2008 15:31:00 No.48908 Report

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>>48895
>>Yeah, up until the mid-90's, both of the major airlines based in Hawaii had liveries that said "We're not just airlines, brah. We're airlines from HAWAII!"

Hawaiian's current livery is basically an update of the one before it; they took off the stripes on the fuselage, and expanded the old Pualani logo into the current Pualani tail.

The main thing that changed since then is that Aloha Airlines in now Aloha Air Cargo, and their niche in the interisland market appears to have been replaced by Go! (which deserves to be sued for predatory business practices.)

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Anonymous Fri 12 Sep 2008 15:43:00 No.48911 Report

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In the USA I like Delta's new livery, Hawaiian's pretty good too.
Overseas - Singapore and Thai

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Anthony Davis Sat 13 Sep 2008 01:37:00 No.48951 Report

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Northwest reporting in

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Anonymous Mon 15 Sep 2008 05:57:00 No.49587 Report

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Anonymous Mon 15 Sep 2008 09:54:00 No.49608 Report

Quoted By: >>49664

This will make your eyes bleed.

Amazing

Amazing Mon 15 Sep 2008 10:09:00 No.49611 Report

Quoted By: >>49662

>>48775

>>I liked their old abstract 1990's livery better. That livery said "Yeah, we're an airline. What of it?"

Minnesotan here, and I totally agree. The old livery just plain looked better.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Sep 2008 16:54:00 No.49651 Report

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silverjet (silver liveried plane)

Mon 15 Sep 2008 19:52:00 No.49662 Report

Quoted By: >>49664

>>49611
picture of said livery?

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Kartma !wvTgDQHyaM Mon 15 Sep 2008 20:10:00 No.49664 Report

Quoted By: >>49666

>>49662

Here it is on an Airbus A319. It looked nicer on the 747s and DC-10s.

>>49608

DO NOT WANT!

Amazing

Amazing Mon 15 Sep 2008 20:17:00 No.49666 Report

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>>49664

I could have sworn there was another version with just a big N on the tail.

Ah well. Also, Sun Country Airlines had a great scheme.

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Kartma !wvTgDQHyaM Mon 15 Sep 2008 20:23:00 No.49668 Report

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>>49666

Proportionally, that was as big as the N got. Before that, the airline sported a simple red tail and polished metal look.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Sep 2008 22:52:00 No.49686 Report

Quoted By: >>49694

Nice and simple.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Sep 2008 00:10:00 No.49694 Report

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>>49686

RACIST!!!

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