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I can understand why an airline might occasionally paint an aircraft in retro livery under the same name, but using the name of a predecessor company seems odd. The big corporate name and logo functions partly as an advertisement - and the old logo suggests how long established and mature a company is. Using the name of an old company loses that benefit and potentially causes confusion to people outside the airline industry
Not sure they will even use BEA anyway but I guess we are odds on for the return of the 1980s Landor livery.
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US Airways adopted much later on "Heritage" liveries from airlines they had previously absorbed on examples of their A319`s...
The original America West livery...
The final America West livery...
The Piedmont livery...
& the Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) livery...
The original America West livery...
The final America West livery...
The Piedmont livery...
& the Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) livery...
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TBH I think that there is more chance of seeing a A380 In GO livery than with one of those tails.
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I am all too aware of the controversy over the international tails and the boss at the time. I know we shall not see their like again and I understand the reasons why. But, for me, they were joyous and highly innovative. That said, the classic BOAC scheme for the 744 is one I heartily approve of - mainly as my first flight ever (Dec 1965) was in a VC10 in this livery!
The BOAC original 747 1970 livery was chosen I gather to coincide with the first 747's and almost 40 years of BOAC/BA 747 operations and 45 years of BEA/BA merger (1974)
An A321 NEO is also rumoured to be coming in BEA speed jack livery which will be rather nice if it emerges
An A321 NEO is also rumoured to be coming in BEA speed jack livery which will be rather nice if it emerges
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The BOAC original 747 1970 livery was chosen I gather to coincide with the first 747's and almost 40 years of BOAC/BA 747 operations and 45 years of BEA/BA merger (1974)
An A321 NEO is also rumoured to be coming in BEA speed jack livery which will be rather nice if it emerges
An A321 NEO is also rumoured to be coming in BEA speed jack livery which will be rather nice if it emerges
If BA do a BEA livery (which I hope for) I suspect it will be an A319.
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Though it was almost a year after the first aircraft was delivered before 747s started carrying fare-paying passengers.
Yep.....I vividly remember attending a “top secret/need to know/eyes only” presentation prior to the introduction of those tails..held in a top secret bunker disguised as a large windowless caravan parked outside Compass Centre (the former BA Crew report centre on the Bath Road) ....On the day I was there group of us (flight crew and cabin crew) sat down, listened to some advertising person, looked at some art work and mock ups and then told said luvvie we thought a lot of the art work was “meh” at best, but that the Chatham Dockyard Tails were quite nice actually and could that opinion get fed back to the Board... we were then somewhat taken a back when the artistic person told us, errr, no, we weren’t looking at a shortlist, that he wasn’t asking for opinions, that the decision had already been made and that the decision had been we were getting the lot.....but thanks for coming...
Anyhow Chatham looked good, right from day one, on everything from Concorde through the 744 and on to the shorthaul fleet. Of course eventually, and with no fanfare and on the quiet the whole fleet got that scheme...So popular opinion won in the end and it is about the only instance I can think of where Margaret Thatcher and I shared the same opinion.
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There are two PA28s flying round in British Caledonian livery at the moment.
That said I am not sure if BA retain copyright on the proud lion as it went off with BCAL Charter to form Calair and Novair eventually morphing into Thomas Cook UK today.
That said I am not sure if BA retain copyright on the proud lion as it went off with BCAL Charter to form Calair and Novair eventually morphing into Thomas Cook UK today.
BCal had to have special permission from the Court of the Lord Lyon to use the Lion Rampant as part of its colour scheme. I suspect this one may go into the “all too difficult” box when you also consider whether the Dan-Air crowd would then demand a retro livery too! BOAC, BEA, Negus and Landor must surely be the four? (Cambrian and Northeast would be fun though...)
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