Birds Of An Airline Flock Together…

Last week I wrote about the ongoing copyright drama American Airlines is experiening.

Thus far, the U.S. Copyright Office has refused to provide AA copyright protection for its logo. While the office primarily cites the lack of “creativity” in the design as the reason for its denial, it also points to the widespread use of birds by other airlines in their logos, calling birds “a very common design choice for an airline logo.” Thus, the AA design “does not propel the design into the range of copyrightability.” Don’t you love the use of the word propel and range? The Copyright Office was clearly having some fun with this.

To prove its point, the Copyright Office offered this site as evidence of how commonplace bird logos are. I love airline logos and think the compilation of logos below is a great example of a commonality that runs through so many airlines around the world. Some airlines are now defunct, but most below are still operating. All use birds in their logos:

AeromexicoAir AlgérieAir GabonAir JamaicaAir MauritiusAir SiamAmerican Airlines

Ariana Afghan AirlinesCameroon AirCathay PacificCondor

Garuda IndonesiaIraqi AirwaysJALKuwait Airways

Lloyd Aeroe Boliviano
LufthansaOzark Airlines

Piedmont AirlinesPresidential AirwaysSingapore Airlines

TACA AirlinesTAM AirlinesTame Airlines

Tarom Romanian Air Transport Trans Mediterranean AirwaysTurkish Airlines Zambia Airways

A Few More Additions

That’s a great list: I’d just add four more.

Air Niugini

LOT Polish Airlines

Kingfisher Airlines

Malaysia Airlines

Any other airline bird logos that I am missing? Is the AA logo special?

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