Mozart From Luxembourg, joined Aug 2003, 2035 posts, RR: 14 Posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 hours ago) and read 2847 times:
Looking at the Air France livery, I just thought that this must be one of the "oldest" liveries around - I think it was introduced in 1974 or 1976 with the introduction of the Concorde. I believe that other than the addition of the Skyteam sticker, nothing has changed since then.
There certainly are a couple of other airlines that haven't changed since more than 25 years, here are the ones I suspect:
- Alitalia
- Iberia
- all the Chinese ones (I think those c/s existed already before the Wright Brothers took to the skies)
- American?
- Royal Air Maroc
- Air Malta
- Air India (I know there was an "intermediate" period of a Landor livery, but the current one is still the "old" one, right?)
- Thai
- Singapore only with very slight modifications
- Malaysian
I am not even sure about these ones - so my question is which ones don't belong on this list, which others are that old?
Behramjee From Canada, joined Aug 2003, 4479 posts, RR: 43 Reply 1, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 4 hours ago) and read 2713 times:
I would say :
1. KLM
2. Lufthansa
3. American Airlines
4. Thai
5. Singapore Airlines
6. Air China
7. Syrian Air
8. Iran Air
9. Iraqi Airways
LH & AA have had very minor changes like LHs lower belly of the aircraft not having the dark blue color where as the greyness of AAs paint has become a bit lighter but I wouldnt call any of them a major color scheme-livery change!!!
Emirates still has the same colors going since 1985...19 years!!!
Btw...Malaysian has changed its color scheme during the last 15 years
Hirnie From Germany, joined May 2004, 582 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 4 hours ago) and read 2681 times:
KLM did slight changes not long ago.
LH changed its c/s a bit more than stated above. The nose is white (former black), the yellow circle on the tail is smaller, the white paint goes more to the bottom of the fuselage, the blue line has disappeared and the former alluminium styled parts of the fuselage are now grey. There might be other minor changes.
What about Air Maroc? To me this c/s looks pretty old fashoined, but I might be wrong.
Ariana?
Only some guesses...
Behramjee From Canada, joined Aug 2003, 4479 posts, RR: 43 Reply 3, posted (8 years 8 months 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 2422 times:
What I meant is that the above mentioned airlines like AA-LH-KLM havent radically changed their color schemes like BA-CO-UAL-DL-AC-SAA-CX-JAL-RG etc have !!!
Oh btw...you can add Air France to that unchanged color scheme list above as well as Ethiopian.
B2443 From United States of America, joined Jul 2004, 682 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (8 years 8 months 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 2146 times:
- all the Chinese ones (I think those c/s existed already before the Wright Brothers took to the skies)
None of their current airlines' c/s is more than 25 years. CAAC was only broken into CA, CZ MU etc like 16 years ago? They have not changed for sure but not for 25 years. Among them I think CZ's most inviting. MU's blue-red bird on tail is just butt ugly. CA, except for its tail, has not changed the dull double blue cheatlines in the past 50 years, which were copied from USSR's Aeroflot?
Behramjee From Canada, joined Aug 2003, 4479 posts, RR: 43 Reply 6, posted (8 years 8 months 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 2102 times:
SR 103 - Anosh,
Plz refer to my earlier posts mentioned stating what exactly is a color scheme change for an airline.
Your pics of ET do prove that the airline has only "modified" their livery-color scheme but hasnt radically changed it like UAL-BA-CX-JAL-SAA-DL-CO-NWA-AC etc have done in the last decade.
Look at the ET pics...just that yellow line has been removed along the windows, Ethiopian is written bigger and the tail design is bit different but the colors are all the same (green-yellow-red) !!!
Alitalia744 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 4670 posts, RR: 45 Reply 7, posted (8 years 8 months 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 2029 times:
I think AA and AZ are the oldest, both originated from 1969.
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