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Most 'Classic' Airline Logo  
User currently offlineDeltaOwnsAll From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 1173 posts, RR: 2
Posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 3647 times:

Which classic Airline Logo means the most to you? Im not going to go out on a limb here and try and name all of the countless choices...but were talking anywhere from the NW compass to the Qantas kangaroo...

Predictably according to my username, Im going to side with the Delta Widget~




Almost no image in not only the aviation world but all other environments strikes such a sentimental chord...Delta is the airline I grew up on and the original inspiration for my consistent and undeniable interest in aviation.

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User currently offlineUAL#1fan From United States of America, joined May 2001, 88 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 3607 times:

The Pan Am globe or the classic United shield. Or three red letters in bold: T W A.


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User currently offlineLuketenley From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 419 posts, RR: 1
Reply 2, posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 3593 times:

Old school US Air logo.. the red and orange one. I dont have a pic of it though.


Pittsburgh International Airport lover
User currently offlineByrdluvs747 From United States of America, joined Jul 2004, 1886 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 3588 times:

Stuff the widget.

It's a toss between these two.






The 747: The hands who designed it were guided by god.
User currently offlineBN727 From United States of America, joined Sep 2006, 83 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 3562 times:

Delta widget was arguably one of the best. Pan Am's "Blue Ball" was at one time one of the world's most recognized logos. Hugh's Airwest flying banana was great. Who didn't like PSA's smile. We all like Johny Cash on Alaka's tail. ANA for the wildest. Western Pacific for intersting. TWA two globes were nice. American is timeless with shiney polished aluminum with lightning bolt or red, white and blue stipe. Aircal for the pretiest stripes color combo. Value Jet, we all liked the "critter". Virgin Atalantic wins for hot chick nose art. British Airways for class. Southwest for the upside down hotdog however most recognizable in the USA. Jetblue has cool multi tails. Original America West for a fesh new recognizable look in the sky with an Arizona look to it.
Airtran wins for what looks alot like a flying tennis shoe. USair has never really found it's colors until now. 1970's Northwest Orient and Continental had a very nice look with red and golden tails. Eastern and Western both had best propeller airplane logo's hands down. My favorite no doubt was Braniff. From El Dorado look to All 3 of it's flying colors schemes they just out cooled 'em all.....Thier airplanes made the skies fun. The Big Orange 747 was the coolest thing in the sky in it's heyday.

User currently offlineFuturecaptain From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 5, posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 3543 times:

My vote goes for Pan Am.

User currently offlinePExDCA From United States of America, joined Feb 2007, 252 posts, RR: 2
Reply 6, posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 3538 times:

I think the Pan Am globe is the gold standard for classic logos, but the National Airlines Sun God logo is by far my favorite.


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User currently offlineWhappeh From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 1558 posts, RR: 2
Reply 7, posted (5 years 2 months 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 3534 times:

Quoting Byrdluvs747 (Reply 3):
Stuff the widget.

It's a toss between these two.


Signed.

Those two are the definitive Airline logos in the United States. You could probably show those to a child who was born in 2000 and they'd be able to tell you what they were. The rest of us are just congregation.


-Travel now, journey infinitely.
User currently offlineMarquis From Germany, joined Sep 2005, 261 posts, RR: 2
Reply 8, posted (5 years 2 months 15 hours ago) and read 3476 times:

For me it is definately the stylised crane logo of Lufthansa, as it was designed and introduced with "Deutsche Luftreederei" in 1919. Despite its age of 88 years it still appears very modern and contemporary to me.




Riding the radials...
User currently offlineACDC8 From Canada, joined Mar 2005, 7587 posts, RR: 47
Reply 9, posted (5 years 2 months 11 hours ago) and read 3460 times:

Quoting Marquis (Reply 8):
For me it is definately the stylised crane logo of Lufthansa, as it was designed and introduced with "Deutsche Luftreederei" in 1919. Despite its age of 88 years it still appears very modern and contemporary to me.

Put me down for LH as well, after all those years, it's still going strong. To me it's both nostalgic and modern at the same time.


A Grumpy German Is A Sauerkraut
User currently offlineAlexPorter From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 10, posted (5 years 1 month 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 3392 times:

My first thought was Pan Am. But the LH logo is also quite the classic! I had no idea it was that old. I thought it was from the 60s or late 50s.

User currently offlineSCAT15F From United States of America, joined Feb 2007, 318 posts, RR: 0
Reply 11, posted (5 years 1 month 4 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 3390 times:

I like the Republic logo before it was bought by Northwest Orient.

Anyone have a picture of it to post? It was a blue/green duck(mallard) silhouette in a circle, I believe.  bigthumbsup 

User currently offlineEmirates029 From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2007, 179 posts, RR: 0
Reply 12, posted (5 years 1 month 4 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 3386 times:

Quoting Marquis (Reply 8):
For me it is definately the stylised crane logo of Lufthansa, as it was designed and introduced with "Deutsche Luftreederei" in 1919. Despite its age of 88 years it still appears very modern and contemporary to me.

I definitely agree, its one of the best timeless logos out there. I'd also vote for the old British Airways logo, before the current Union Flag ''Chatham Dockyard" theme.

User currently offlineUnited319 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 477 posts, RR: 0
Reply 13, posted (5 years 1 month 4 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 3360 times:

According to statistics, the three most recognizeable logos in the world are:

1) Coke
2) McDonalds
3) American Airlines...

I personally think the classic logos are
The classic United "U", AA, TW, and PA, and of course the Widget


It's Time To Fly
User currently offline1stfl94 From United Kingdom, joined May 2006, 1371 posts, RR: 1
Reply 14, posted (5 years 1 month 4 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 3358 times:

The British Airways 'to fly to serve' crest they used to have

User currently offlineEISHN From Ireland, joined Feb 2007, 1502 posts, RR: 9
Reply 15, posted (5 years 1 month 4 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 3346 times:

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The shamrock does it for me.

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St. Flannan/ Fhlanain- She took off to find the footlights, And I took off for the sky
User currently offlineWestJetYQQ From Canada, joined Jan 2007, 2986 posts, RR: 6
Reply 16, posted (5 years 1 month 4 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 3314 times:

Come on!

The logo for BA in the Landor era is a classic by my standards!

Cheers
Carson


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User currently offlineTrijetsRMissed From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 1848 posts, RR: 7
Reply 17, posted (5 years 1 month 4 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 3306 times:

I got to go with AA. The logo is both vintage but timeless. AA is one of the few carriers that still features a cheat-line in their livery. It may not be the most impressive paint scheme but seeing anything else on mass amount of Mad Dogs at the ORD terminal wouldn't seem right.


There's nothing quite like a tri-jet.
User currently offlineMCOflyer From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 8423 posts, RR: 16
Reply 18, posted (5 years 1 month 4 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 3304 times:

The CO meatball, and the Piedmont one for me please.

MCOflyer


Never be afraid to stand up for who you are.
User currently offlineQXRamperMEII From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 93 posts, RR: 1
Reply 19, posted (5 years 1 month 3 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 3260 times:

Quoting BN727 (Reply 4):
We all like Johny Cash on Alaka's tail.

Johnny Cash...never picked that out. The joke is that AS has a picture of an ugly flight attendant on thier tails; QX got a picture of his asshole on thiers
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