Favorite Airline Livery, Colors, Designs, Appearance, Decorations, Etc... (jet, Boeing, Navy)

[survivingearth]

Alright my what is your top 3 favorite airline livery?
Mine:
Old school AA:

UPS

JAL Cargo

[Boo_Urns]

Good call with the first two. I always thought the old AA livery was classic, and your right; the UPS brown over white is a little plain, but dresses up those MD-11s well.


IMHO the best ever was the old British Airways livery (the one used in the early to mid 90s); a very crisp white over navy blue. Really looked sharp.


The Northwest "bowling shoe" wasn't bad either.

[BoSox 15]

I never thought of the old AA livery as a "wow" type of livery, but it did have a classic, timeless look.

As for current liveries, my vote goes to Air New Zealand:

[mikeyyc]

Memories from childhood. Our old house was up on a hill, and in the distance you could watch the planes come and go.



CP (Canadian Pacific) Air. Nothing says 70's like bare aluminum and two shades of orange.



Canadian Airlines International I love the goose.

For current ones, I really like the new Alitalia



While it's not very exciting, I really like QANTAS. You can't mistake that kangaroo for any other airline. At the end of the day, that's sort of what livery is about. Making you stand out.

[transitfan]

My favorite old-school livery is the United "Stars and Bars" from the early 70s. Happily, UA has painted an A-320 as a retro jet



As far as current liveries, even though I would never fly them, I like this one by Spirit:



BTW, I took both of these at FLL (Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport). Unlike some airport, they are reasonably spotter-friendly

[SluggoF16]

In the 1990s Colorado Springs-based Western Pacific used advertising on their aircraft to help defray costs. I flew on them once around 1996, PHX-COS-TUL. The Marge Simpson aircraft was very popular.

[transitfan]

I recall that either Airliners or Airways magazine had a cover story on Western Pacific. Alas, like many start-ups they didn't last that long

[survivingearth]

The bare aluminium was really something else. I used to go crazy when i walked to my gate and saw a shining MD-11.
Old school Lufthansa

Even more old school United

[SluggoF16]

In 1984, just before they went bankrupt, my GF flew on this from OKC to New Orleans. Northeasterm International, based out of Fort Lauderdale. They had a blue 727 with the cloud motif as well.







As a kid growing up in Phoenix, there was Hughes Airwest, "Top Banana in the West".

[OldChina]

Livery, as it's called causes me to think of the uniform of a nice stewardess
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Therefore, I'm disappointed that it refers, here, to the often ridiculous designs in which airplanes are decorated. The already far-too-large-for-their-good tailfins are painted so garishly that they can look monstrous, as though invited to snap off. Despite that many passenger planes are, in my view, inelegant, airline managers would do better to restrain their painters and decorators so as to preserve the dignity of their aircraft. Now I'm reminded of that old Willie Rushton cartoon, in which some dignitaries are about to disembark from their plane. In the background are visible the garish tailfins of surrounding planes – each decorated with the name of an airline that ends in ia. One of the passengers turns to an astonished colleague and says something like: "I hear Jeremy's flying Genitalia" And the other replies: "Really? It must make an awful din".