Back to the Past
They've taken an outstanding fresh and vibrant scheme in the 2000 colours with the purble band, toned it down a tad with the scheme introduced with the last A340 deliveries and now we've lost the vibrant purple and gone back to the 1984 original logo in plain red.
Losing the distinctive, cheeky and patriotic winglets in the process?
It all looks a little cheaper alas, and I agree that the titles are far from bold. There's nothing original or outstanding here.
Are we stepping back from a uniform branding for the Virgin group? I thought they were supposed to be moving to a Virgin America look. Certainly having three versions of your brand in the air at once isn't a great move.
Four schemes if you count G-VFAB in the cracking birthday livery
2000 Scheme :
B744
G-VHOT G-VBIG G-VAST G-VXLG
A343
G-VAIR G-VHOL G-VSEA G-VELD G-VFAR
A346
all bar G-VRED G-VWEB G-VBUG in the 2000 scheme
2007 Scheme :
B744
G-VHOT G-VROS G-VGAL G-VLIP G-VROY G-VWOW (G-VROM was but went to Aerosur)
A343
G-VSUN
2010 Underwhelming Scheme :
B744
G-VROC
Last edited by Skipness One Echo; 27th Jul 2010 at 10:01.