New or revised Ryanair livery?
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Thread drift, but I noticed recently that all of the harps have a female figure now. I'm sure they used to have a mix of male and female ones. When did that change? (Note: I'm not the most observant of folks so it might have been about 10 years ago.)
The first of the new fleet of (now renamed) B737 8-200's sitting idle at the Boeing factory (with the word MAX now painted out) are in the original livery
Ryanair Sun is the Polish arm and soon to be rebranded as Buzz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_o...istorical).svg
The logo was "augmented" a few years back to accentuate the female aspects.
BTW, the Ryanair colours are based on the county colours of Tipperary, Blue and Gold, the home country of one Tony Ryan.
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Ah I see, I always thought the blue and gold was from an old Irish flag that had the stars of the Plough (constellation) in gold on a blue background.
I could swear there were some male ones... I'll check my photo collection and see...
I could swear there were some male ones... I'll check my photo collection and see...
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Ay, just had a look through a bigger photo collection than mine and it seems the change in chest shape (I'm being polite here) occurred at the same time as the modified livery. It could have been that during the period when the fleet was in transition I thought they deliberately had some male ones and some female ones. Cheers JaS
Not correct as they acquired 737-200s from several sources, not just Britannia, and all were fully repainted soon after acquisition. I recall being told by a person in the company that the choice of dark blue was in part because it would not show dirt and grime as readily as a light colour.
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and all were fully repainted soon after acquisition.
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Yep, early 737s too. Go to Airliners and search (for eg) EI-CJC. You will see dozens of photos of it in the Hertz livery but also in the white livery I mentioned above.