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RyeFly From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 1383 posts, RR: 0
Posted (12 years 11 months 1 week 4 hours ago) and read 1320 times:

To you, what current airline looks the best to you?

1. US Airways
2. TWA
3. Virgin Atlantic (New look)

43 replies: All unread, showing first 25:

Whippy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (12 years 11 months 1 week 4 hours ago) and read 1111 times:

AirTran
Continental
USAirways

BA744 From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2000, 169 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (12 years 11 months 1 week 4 hours ago) and read 1111 times:

Cathay Pacific
BA (union flag)
Virgin

PH-BZA From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (12 years 11 months 1 week 3 hours ago) and read 1096 times:

1. US Airways
2. TWA
3. Cathay Pacific
4. British Airways
5. Air New Zealand

Jr From United States of America, joined May 1999, 958 posts, RR: 7
Reply 4, posted (12 years 11 months 1 week 3 hours ago) and read 1094 times:

1. Pan Am

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Photo © Ted Quackenbush

2. Air India

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Photo © Paul Robinson

3. Saudi Arabian (Saudia)

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Photo © Ws Chan

I've flown on 9V-SPK.

DesertJets From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 7673 posts, RR: 18
Reply 5, posted (12 years 11 months 1 week 3 hours ago) and read 1081 times:

1. America West (Flintstone Colors)

2. TWA

3. VARIG

Stop drop and roll will not save you in hell. --- seen on a church marque in rural Virginia

GUNDU From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 6, posted (12 years 11 months 1 week 2 hours ago) and read 1075 times:

Try these:

1.Virgin Atlantic

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Photo © Chris Liao

2.Emirates

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Photo © Konstantin Von Wedelstaedt

3.Saudi Arabian

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Photo © K W Chui

Gundu

Rotate777 From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 400 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (12 years 11 months 1 week 2 hours ago) and read 1063 times:

1. Virgin Atlantic
2. China Airlines
3. Cathay Pacific

Runners up:

Eva Air
British Airways (all the tails)

Iflewrepublic From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 537 posts, RR: 3
Reply 8, posted (12 years 11 months 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 1043 times:

1. Northwest
2. TWA
3. Cathay Pacific
4. Continental (way better than the gold)
5. Delta (but only with the blue tail)

Aviation is proof that, given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

747sp_rulez From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 9, posted (12 years 11 months 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 1028 times:

1. Virgin Atlantic
2. JAL
3. Contenental
4. Qantas
5. British Airways and their world design tails
6. South African
7. Ansett Australia
8. Air NZ
9. Saudia
10. Varig

Dellatorre From Brazil, joined May 2000, 1084 posts, RR: 2
Reply 10, posted (12 years 11 months 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 1021 times:

Sorry but USAirways it´s too akward.
1- LanChile(The best ever!!!!!!!!)
2- British Airways
3- China Airlines

L-1011Alpha From Puerto Rico, joined Feb 2000, 331 posts, RR: 0
Reply 11, posted (12 years 11 months 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 1014 times:

Ansett
ATA
JAL

"For Us, Sky is not the limit.. Its Ground" / L-1011Alpha.

Ericmetallica From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 12, posted (12 years 11 months 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 1003 times:

1.) AirTran
2.) USAir
3.) United

N863DA From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 48 posts, RR: 6
Reply 13, posted (12 years 11 months 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 999 times:

1. Delta (newest livery)
2. Qantas (clean lines, smart, timeless)
3. British Airways (Union Flag)

FLY DELTA JETS

N 8 6 3 D A

Samurai 777 From Canada, joined Jan 2000, 2451 posts, RR: 5
Reply 14, posted (12 years 11 months 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 996 times:

1. TWA
2. Qantas
3. British Airways(both World Colors and new Union Jack)

BH346 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 3265 posts, RR: 17
Reply 15, posted (12 years 11 months 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 987 times:

1.Northwest Airlines
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Photo © Kelvin Poon

2.All Nippon Airways
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Photo © Hp. Baserga

3.Virgin Atlantic
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Photo © Chris Liao

BH346

Northwest Airlines - Some People Just Know How to Fly

Ilyushin96M From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 2609 posts, RR: 14
Reply 16, posted (12 years 11 months 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 985 times:

Mine are:

1. Air Jamaica

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Photo © Frank Schaefer

2. Air Tahiti Nui

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Photo © AirNikon

3. USAirways

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Photo © Stephane GIMARD

Sabol From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 17, posted (12 years 11 months 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 977 times:

For me, its very classic but beautiful KLM livery on 1.place:
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Photo © Peter Vercruijsse

2.place:Northwest
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Photo © Bruce Highland

3.place:BA
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Photo © Simon Ng

Anyway, don't know what you all have with USAirways ?

regards,
Matej Sabol

Vincent32 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 18, posted (12 years 11 months 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 970 times:

US Airways
It's looked much better than the silver.
BUT
TWA is in a close running with their new look. Much better than the red stripes.

Pronto From Canada, joined Mar 2000, 327 posts, RR: 0
Reply 19, posted (12 years 11 months 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 958 times:

Saudi Arabian Airlines
Royal Brunei
China Airlines

TWA717_200 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 20, posted (12 years 11 months 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 965 times:

Let's see, since the topic is "Top 3 Paint Schemes" (not 5 or 10) I'll post these 3. Not 5 and not 10. ONLY 3, like the topic says.

Did I make my point? Hope so.

Here they are:

Number 1:

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Photo © Mark Abbott

Number 2:

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Photo © Richard Zeman

Number 3:

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Photo © Brian Stevenson

Imkeww From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 21, posted (12 years 11 months 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 956 times:

1) LAN Chile -- Beautiful and UNIQUE and innovative
2) Virgin -- contemporary, modern, chic, hip
3) TWA -- Stately

Vctony From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 442 posts, RR: 0
Reply 22, posted (12 years 11 months 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 949 times:

1. Delta:

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USAirwys4Lyfe From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 23, posted (12 years 11 months 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 946 times:

1. USAirways- Sharp, yet not flashy
2. TWA- Much better than the boring pinstripe(s)
3. Southwest and Western Pacific- For their innovations in having many different schemes

usairwys4lyfe@hotmail.com

Cathay Pacific From Australia, joined May 2000, 1864 posts, RR: 1
Reply 24, posted (12 years 11 months 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 948 times:

for me is......

1) United Airlines

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Cathay Pacific......The Heart Of Asia

cathay pacific, now you're really flying

25 FLY777UAL: 1. Saudi Arabian 2. Virgin Atlantic 3. US Airways F L Y 7 7 7 U A L

Tritanic: Here's mine Click for large versionPhoto © Vasco Garcia Brittish Airways was one of the first to try bold, different tail schemes. Click for larg

27 Favre: 1) nwa 747-4002) national 7573) saudi 777

28 BNE: 1. QANTAS 2. TWA 3. Continental

CV990A: My top 3 are: 1) TAME Click for large versionPhoto © Bill Hough 2) Continental Click for large versionPhoto © Vincent Gury 3) British Midlan

30 Airbus A3XX: For me: 1. Cathay Pacific 2. Virgin Atlantic 3. Delta Airlines

Ship 7004: 1 braniff (BIG orange) Click for large versionPhoto © Paul Robinson 2Delta Click for large versionPhoto © Bill Hough 3SWA Click for large ve

Classic707: American Click for large versionPhoto © Scott Leazenby Continental Click for large versionPhoto © Colin K. Work Southwest Click for large ve

Peter: Delta is the best! Click for large versionPhoto © Richard Silagi TWA is the second. Click for large versionPhoto © Saul Loeb United is 3rd.

34 Na: Northwest (B747) Virgin Atlantic (all types) Qantas (B747)

35 VirginA340: Virgin(new colors) Emerates TWA United US Airways Continental Air New Zealand Air India SAA

N766UA: NUMBER ONE: Click for large versionPhoto © Norman Walesch NUMBER TWO: Click for large versionPhoto © Norman Walesch NUMBER THREE: Click for

37 Noise: 1. US Airways 2. Ansett Australia 3. LanChile Runner ups will have to be JetBlue Airways and the new Sabena Airlines. South Africa is good too.

Noise: By the way, they already have this on http://www.justplanes.com . You can vote on the top 3 best airline liveries. it can be any airline in the world

39 Unitedmsy: My choices 1. Delta (Salt Lake 2002) 2. Southwest ( state flags) 3. Air Canada (painted in old scheme)

40 UALfa@jfk: end of message.

41 Djmatthews: 1. Airtours Interantional (Esp on the A330) 2. America West 3. South African & Vigin Atlantic (New) Top 3 worst. 1. Monarch 2. TWA 3. Air India

42 ABQ757: The best paint schemes are 3. TWA 2. United 1. America West (looks great on those 757's)

43 C172sb: BA (union jack) Atlas Air (n/c) SAS (n/c)

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