![]() Their ‘Flying 101’ livery points out the important bits on an aircraft like the front door ( this door is always open… unless we’re at 41,000 feet), landing gear ( comes standard with supa-fly mags), the co-captain seat ( the other pilot on the PA system) and the back door ( no bribery or corruption here). Topping our list for creativity is South African’s Kulula Airways, a low cost carrier with a brilliant sense of humour. But mostly they say a lot about our cultural histories and tastes. Airline liveries have and do reflect collaborations with everything from film productions, sporting events, tourism hotspots and more recently aviation mergers and acquisitions, using thousands of litres of paint in the process. That great big beast of a plane is the perfect medium for flash and creative branding, but not all airlines take full advantage of all that space, while others do it brilliantly and some hover in the realms of what were you thinking. Designs were once extremely corporate and symbols were nationally recognised – what traveller hasn’t felt a pang of patriotism during long journeys when catching a glimpse of your country’s national carrier at a crowded airport in far away countries? ![]() Forget Mad Men, flick through a timeline of liveries and they tell us a lot about ourselves. Appearance is everything and aircraft are no exception to the rule.
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