Originally Posted by
GotTheTshirt
Court line colour scheme was designed by Murdoch and Associates in London.
The idea was to get away from the typical airline idea with a coloured cheat line and advertise the Holiday Airline. It was launced with great Dog and Pony show at the Royal Lancaster House Hotel London ( Of Rhodesia Fame !!).
There were three colours.The Blue aircraft which repesented the sea, The orange aircraft which repesented the beach and the Pink aircraft which represented the sunset. Each aircraft had 3 shades from dark to light !!.
When BAC were shown the drawings they said "You must be joking " !! However one has to admit it had the deired publicity effect !!
Surely there were four colours as evident from the above photo.
Blue
Orange
Pink
And the Lilac as seen!
I did a pleasure flight on a BIA Herald from Southampton in 1974 shortly after the collapse of Court Line and part of the trip included a low fly past along the runway at Hurn with a great view of the recently parked up BAC 1-11's over at the former British Aerospace facility.
I remember at the time feeling quite sad as I had only seen Court Line once before on my first visit to LTN in 1973 and as a young lad I instantly fell in love with the colourful liveries and to be honest I still am it's just a real shame that the airline went bust as it did and it makes you wonder what would have been if it had succeeded to this day.