Dalavia From Hong Kong, joined Feb 2005, 324 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 2206 times:
IMO the tail looks a bit generic.
If you see the front of the plane, you will know it is JAL, but in a line of tails at LHR or HKG, the message "this is JAL" is likely to be unclear (understatement!).
SeansasLCY From Hong Kong, joined Mar 2007, 507 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 2141 times:
Quoting Dalavia (Reply 1): If you see the front of the plane, you will know it is JAL, but in a line of tails at LHR or HKG, the message "this is JAL" is likely to be unclear (understatement!).
from this quote "Look out for JAL's Eco Jet from June on Japan routes serving Haneda airport, Tokyo, its main domestic hub" i believe it will only operate domestic routes.
Ariis From Poland, joined Sep 2004, 373 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 2093 times:
Quoting SeansasLCY (Reply 2): from this quote "Look out for JAL's Eco Jet from June on Japan routes serving Haneda airport, Tokyo, its main domestic hub" i believe it will only operate domestic routes.
The green message under the paper plane is too small to read from that picture, but still it is clear that it is written in Japanese. It must be domestic then.
Incitatus From Brazil, joined Feb 2005, 2782 posts, RR: 21 Reply 4, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 1919 times:
This is kind of silly. Airplanes are not green. They emit a heck of a lot of CO2. Nothing in particular against JAL - I've flown on them and liked it very much - but there goes another airline jumping on the green bandwagon.
Spacecadet From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 2125 posts, RR: 19 Reply 7, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 1739 times:
Yeah, unless they park this thing in a desert somewhere, there's nothing "eco" about this.
That'd be pretty funny, actually. Park a plane in the desert, paint it green, take a picture and then put out a press release about how eco-friendly your company is. All these bankrupt Airlines just found a new way to market themselves!
This is par for the course in Japan, though. A huge number of people there see global warming as a serious problem (something like 78%, vs. something like 46% of Americans in the last survey I saw), but they refuse to actually do anything about it. They still have multiple layers of incredibly wasteful plastic packaging on everything, they still use plastic bags in grocery stores, they drive even more than we do (they buy almost as many cars with half the population), etc. But they'll pay lip service to the problem with stuff like this. "Look, we care about the environment!" Then they go right on living the same way they always have.
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NWADC9 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 4626 posts, RR: 16 Reply 9, posted (1 year 9 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 1513 times:
This eco nonsense has gone too far. And to replace the red sun with a putrid green? That's almost like defacing the Japanese flag since that's what the circle is.
Carpethead From Japan, joined Aug 2004, 2342 posts, RR: 3 Reply 10, posted (1 year 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1290 times:
Quoting Spacecadet (Reply 7): Yeah, unless they park this thing in a desert somewhere, there's nothing "eco" about this.
Until somebody comes up with a non-CO2 emitting propulsion system, a 777 is very efficient in moving 300+ passengers. Much better than the huge numbers of RJs that ply the US skies.
JL probably wanted to slap that logo and the green on their new 787, which would have been rolled out soon, if it were originally as planned.
Quoting Spacecadet (Reply 7): This is par for the course in Japan, though. A huge number of people there see global warming as a serious problem (something like 78%, vs. something like 46% of Americans in the last survey I saw), but they refuse to actually do anything about it. They still have multiple layers of incredibly wasteful plastic packaging on everything, they still use plastic bags in grocery stores, they drive even more than we do (they buy almost as many cars with half the population), etc. But they'll pay lip service to the problem with stuff like this. "Look, we care about the environment!" Then they go right on living the same way they always have.
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