WestJet to cancel 15% of its flights in January.Air Canada to suspend flights to the Caribbean and Mexico.SkyWest Airlines embarks on its 50th year, special livery coming?.World Airline News World Airline News Top Stories Airliners Stock Images and Color Photos.Subscribe Beautiful Color Prints from Color Prints – Best Sellers AG Blogs However the 1962 (red arrow, twin globes) livery (27 percent) and 1980 livery (twin stripes, bold titles) (24 percent) are running close behind.Ĭopyright Photo: TMK Photography/. In our on-going poll for which TWA livery should be painted on the retrojet, our readers favor the last (1995) livery by around 35 percent. The first new legacy logo jet will be for TWA. The repainting of the US Airways and US Airways Express aircraft into American colors will now begin. Therefore the new tail is probably more popular with the general public than with the employees. Our own WAN unofficial public poll showed a higher margin – 57 percent approving of the new design with 43 percent picking the more traditional AA tail. 52 percent of the employees voted to keep the new look rather than a more traditional AA on the tail. Video: The painting of the first aircraft by easyJet:Īmerican Airlines (Dallas/Fort Worth) and US Airways (Phoenix) (American Airlines Group) employees have voted to keep the new 2013 (Horton) livery. The second, which entered service in 1998, displayed across the fuselage which reflected the important move the airline made to online booking. The first, seen in 1995 on easyJet’s first aircraft, was different to anything else flying as it advertised the booking number along the fuselage in giant lettering. Taken together this means 29 aircraft will be flying with the new look by the end of 2015 and 50% of the fleet will sport the new livery by the end of 2017.Ī specialist team is needed to repaint an aircraft which takes around seven days on average.ĭuring easyJet’s 19 year history there have been only two aircraft styles. In addition, younger planes in easyJet’s fleet will have the new livery applied when they are scheduled to be repainted, typically every six years. EasyJet has 197 Airbus A320 aircraft on order, the majority of which will replace older A319 aircraft currently in the fleet. The new livery will feature on all new easyJet aircraft deliveries from April 2015. The airline currently has a fleet of 226 aircraft – a mixture of Airbus A319s and A320s. This enables the easyJet logo to be reversed out of that color – in accordance with brand guidelines – and to give the plane a sleek, more modern look. Finally, the “.com” has been dropped. Secondly, an orange stripe reflecting the design language of easyJet’s advertising has been introduced on to the fuselage. EasyJet’s trademark orange has been extended from the tail fin on to the fuselage to create a larger space for the easyJet logo which is 15% bigger than before. The airline issued this statement:ĮasyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has launched a new aircraft livery – the first change to the look of the airline’s iconic white and orange fleet since replaced the call center number on the fuselage in 1998. EasyJet () (London-Luton) today (February 3) unveiled its new livery on the pictured Airbus A319-111 G-EZDE (msn 3426).