Airline liveries have changed over the years and I would argue not in a good way. Yes, there are beautiful liveries today, many in fact. But the move to bland, mostly-white liveries with dull “modern” logos is a sad...
United’s New California-Themed Livery
United Airlines has unveiled a new California-themed livery now gracing the surface of a Boeing 757-200. The livery is the work of Tsungwei Moo, a San Francisco-based artist who won United’s “Her-Art-Here” contest in association with the National Museum of...
Trump Proudly Displays New Air Force One Model In Oval Office
U.S. President Donald Trump proudly showcased a model of the next-generation Air Force One in the Oval Office and offered further explanation on his choice of new livery. Last week, President Trump showed renderings of the new livery to...
New Air Force One Livery Looks Extremely Familiar…
In an interview with ABC News, President Donald Trump unveiled the proposed livery for the next generation of Air Force One. The iconic blue is out and a new red, white, and blue livery is in. And not just...
Final Four: Pick The Next United Airlines Livery
UPDATE: United Denies Link To Leaked Livery Perhaps deliberately, perhaps accidentally, it does appear we now have a very good idea of the next-generation United livery will resemble. Yesterday I wrote about a quartet of livery designs that suddenly appeared...
Do New United Airlines Mobile Boarding Pass Colors Offer A Hint On New Livery?
As we await the next “evolution” of the United Airlines livery, a new style of mobile boarding passes may offer a clue as to what to expect. For years, United mobile boarding passes have looked like this in the...
United Will Introduce New Livery Next Month
When United Airlines and Continental merged, the United name may have survived, but the Continental livery did. Now comes the chance for true reconciliation. I say that facetiously, of course, since the paint on aircraft is like the old...
New Livery for Sun Country Airlines
Voting just concluded for a brand new Sun Country Airlines livery. With the airline on the verge of major change, it is no surprise its paint scheme would also be updated. Employees were asked to vote on one of...
Lufthansa Doesn’t Like its New Livery
Lufthansa will be tinkering with its new livery once again, just days after revealing its new design to great fanfare. In an internal memo (in German) posted on a German frequent flyer talkboard, Lufthansa concedes the livery appears too...
Lufthansa Livery Update Will Take…7 Years!
Lufthansa has unveiled its new livery, but don’t expect to see it across the fleet anytime soon. In fact, you’ll need to wait seven years for the final aircraft to be repainted. In a spectacular light show (see video...
Lufthansa’s Unnecessary New Livery
A couple weeks ago, I wrote a post entitled, Dear Lufthansa, Please Don’t Ruin Your Beautiful Livery. It was a plea for Lufthansa to leave well enough alone. Sadly, my letter fell upon deaf ears. The new livery is out...
Congresswoman Poaches First Class Seat, Accuses Victim of Racism
A teacher has accused a prominent Democratic Congresswoman of stealing her first class seat on a United flight from Houston to Washington, DC. Jean-Marie Simon was traveling back from Guatemala to Washington, DC via Houston. Upon boarding her connecting flight...
American Airlines’ New Livery Looks Familiar!
American Airlines rolled out a new logo and aircraft livery today. No one asked me for my opinion, but I’ll weigh in just the same. First, you know I prefer the status quo when it comes to many things,...
Picture: A Unique Moment in United Airlines History
As United Airlines works to repaint all of its aircraft with the Continental globe livery, there are still a number of variations out there. United never got around to updating its gray livery on many aircraft when it introduced...
An Interactive Guide to Airline Livery
Gracing the Skies recently expressed her disgust at some airlines for sporting such boring paint jobs. I gently disagreed, arguing that a sleek, smooth design is preferable to a tacky eye-grabbing paint job that some airlines resort to (think...
First United 747 with New Livery Enters Service
Fresh out of the paint shop, United’s first repainted 747-400, N127UA, is heading for San Francisco then on to Incheon tomorrow morning on Flight 893 at 11:05a. Photo by: Jon Ostrower The new livery is starting to grow on...
