Braniff747SP From United States of America, joined Oct 2008, 2631 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (3 years 7 months 3 days ago) and read 3061 times:
AA, followed by US.
The message you were about to post is too short and probably not of any higher value to the topic at hand. You should think long and hard before posting a message in this forum and make it detailed and a valuable addition to the topic discussed.
Your post should be relevant to the topic discussed.
The 747 will always be the TRUE queen of the skies!
Jamesjimlb From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 1023 posts, RR: 2 Reply 6, posted (3 years 7 months 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 2991 times:
AA is the most elegant, but i always loved America West's colors.
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ElBandGeek From United States of America, joined Jun 2008, 735 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (3 years 7 months 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 2956 times:
As far as current airlines, I'm rather fond of UA's current livery.
However, I don't think anything's ever gonna beat this one for me
Jana From Antigua and Barbuda, joined Sep 2009, 110 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (3 years 7 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 2871 times:
Continental has the most elegant livery of the USA. US Airlines' previous livery was not innovative but good. Nowadays Delta's and UA's liveries are really disappointing. Skybus, Southwest and jetBlue had/have solid liveries. Braniff was excellent.
UltimateDelta From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 1994 posts, RR: 6 Reply 9, posted (3 years 7 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 2867 times:
I like Lufthansa's a lot. Even with a lot of white, it looks professional (probably because of the gray bottom). And the Skyteam liveries
JetBlue777 From United States of America, joined Jul 2009, 1427 posts, RR: 1 Reply 11, posted (3 years 7 months 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 2852 times:
AA then US. American Airlines has a classic livery and US has very professional livery
Quoting Superfly (Reply 12):
Of US airlines, American Airlines all the way.
I guess I'm in the minority. I think the AA livery *was* elegant. Now, the planes aren't quite shiny enough and frankly, the livery looks like what it is: old. Outdated. From the 70's.
But I think they've decided that they're keeping it come hell or high water, so the AA livery will be around until the last AA flight lands.
Airport From United States of America, joined Aug 2009, 1397 posts, RR: 9 Reply 15, posted (3 years 7 months 8 hours ago) and read 2736 times:
Quoting NWADC9 (Reply 14): Midwest Express (the livery before the current) and YX's livery today
Northwest's Bowling Shoe
I quite agree, good sir.
My personal favorites, as far as elegance:
Northwest Bowling Shoe (I will never forgive NW for making that brutal change to the compass logo, and the change they made to the livery. Though admittedly I am biased being a youngin, as it was a staple of my childhood aviation experience). Also, I'll note that I can't choose a favorite aircraft type for this livery...it's one of only a handful of liveries I've ever seen that simply looks amazing on every aircraft it's put on.
But when it comes to classy elegant liveries, nothing will beat what came out of the 90s. Some honorable mentions:
Continental's current livery
TWA's last livery
Vanguard's last livery
US Airways old livery
1980s last USAir colors
American Airlines' current colors (especially on the MD-80s)
Delta's old old widget colors
AAairplane From United States of America, joined Jan 2009, 94 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (3 years 6 months 4 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 2645 times:
I really was disappointed that US Airways got a new livery, but the new livery has continued to grow on me. My vote is for the new and old US liveries, followed by the United livery and Northwest colors.
NWADC9 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 4859 posts, RR: 10 Reply 17, posted (3 years 6 months 3 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 2576 times:
MSPNWA From United States of America, joined Apr 2009, 1574 posts, RR: 4 Reply 18, posted (3 years 6 months 3 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 2551 times:
I guess I have to go with AA on this one. Recently I saw an almost-new 738, and it was gleaming in the sun. Nothing can beat bare metal done right.
Honorable mentions to Midwest, Sun Country, Northwest, Southwest, and United.
MEA-707 From Netherlands, joined Nov 1999, 4117 posts, RR: 37 Reply 19, posted (3 years 6 months 3 weeks 6 days ago) and read 2533 times:
I was in the USA again after a while and I noticed most airlines had a white top and a blue belly and / or tail; United, US Airways, Jetblue, Delta, Continental. Therefore I applaud airlines who dare to stand out and wish some more airlines would come up with something completely different.
nobody has ever died from hard work, but why take the risk?
Lrdc9 From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 609 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (3 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 2513 times:
Oh my god. So sorry. I skipped right over the US Airlines part. So sorry.
MadameConcorde From San Marino, joined Feb 2007, 10243 posts, RR: 40 Reply 22, posted (3 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 2497 times:
On Concorde, my all-time favourites were the old British Airways Chatham and Landor liveries. So classy they fit Concorde so well.
Then Singapore Airlines' Golden Bird. That was the only livery on Concorde that flew at Mach2 other than Air France and British Airways when they used to do Barhain and Singapore.
For the A380 it is the actual Airbus livery that I prefer.
Also EL AL I think it is a very beautiful, simple and stylish livery. I hope they will never change it.
Air Tahiti Nui also has a very beautiful livery.
There was a better way to fly it was called Concorde
RW717 From United States of America, joined Sep 2006, 283 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (3 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 2491 times:
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25 Eightball: Agreed. I truly miss flying on TWA and seeing all their jets at STL.
26 FlySSC: In the U.S, the most original livery, most elegant and best livery, by far, is :
27 Superfly: That was probably the only livery change recent years that was an actual improvement. Almost all livery changes in the last 20 years have gone for th
28 Mariner63: I like the current livery on YX. Especially on the tail. However, the original Midwest Express livery with the Express in the cursive, no livery can b
29 DiamondFlyer: Yup, especially on the 757's. Or the 717's and 747's for that matter. Boy, do I sure miss TWA. -DiamondFlyer
30 UltimateDelta: Woops In any case, the Skyteam livery looks awesome on the DL 757. And of course, all of YX's liveries.
31 JamesJimlb: I agree, i don't how i missed that one...
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