conaly wrote:

Yeah, my first guess would also be Eurowings. Pretty much the same as Lufthansa, so they can swap planes whenever they want, just replace the crane with the stripes. As the whole LH group plans to unify their fleets (inside and outside) as much as possible, it would be plausible.

This makes the most sense. My first thought was that it was supposed to be a highly stylized version of UA's globe, but given the holiday in the US and how it lines up with LH's crane and shares its blue color it has to be an LH group airline. No way LH themselves would introduce a new livery so quick, and the other LHG brands have logos that are too iconic to ditch completely, which leaves Eurowings. It's a good excuse to ditch the random color splotches and line the airline up closer with its parent airline, at least visually. If Eurowings is supposed to be Lufthansa's holiday/charter/low cost subsidiary it makes sense for its livery to be a variation on that of the parent.

Just a wild guess, LOT Polish Airlines. Same tail color, could just be it.

PatrickZ80 wrote:

Just a wild guess, LOT Polish Airlines. Same tail color, could just be it.

Nope.

1) Lot is biased towards boeing.
2) Lot had their livery updated in 2012 already.

100% LH
it's exactly following the 2 months old branding

VC10er wrote:

Never has so much been said, by so many, over nothing as this thread!

^^^^ This x 1,000% ^^^^

My money is on Transavia

Scandinavia Airlines have a350 on order and the shade of blue is similar to the one they currently wear on the tail

Eurowings. Brings them in line with Lufthansa and distances them from Air Italy.

With many former airberlin aircraft flying for Eurowings, but still with airberlin livery, there are plenty of aircraft in need for repainting. Good opportunity to introduce a new livery.

EK006 wrote:

Maybe Egypt Air or Iran Air, both have A350's due next year and have blue in their current livery
A more realistic guess seems like it would be for Eurowings

When did EgyptAir order those A350's? Never heard of it, they have leased 6 789's still to be delivered.

EK006 wrote:

Maybe Egypt Air or Iran Air, both have A350's due next year and have blue in their current livery
A more realistic guess seems like it would be for Eurowings

Neither Egypt Air or Eurowings has ordered any A350s? Lufthansa has A350s on order, but is it confirmed that they are going to Eurowings?

Brussels Airlines??

wjcandee wrote:

Is AirBerlin a "major" airline?

They're not an airline at all any more.

TICK TOCK TICK TOCK

Well the clock is ticking and we should all know pretty soon that this is about nothing.

wjcandee wrote:

cvgComair wrote:

Lufthansa has A350s on order, but is it confirmed that they are going to Eurowings?

Sometime in the last couple of months, one of their executives was talking about ordering more A350 s and putting some at Eurowings. It's not something that they have yet announced that they are going to do. However, I thought it kind of made sense that if they were going to do it, maybe the new logo would debut at the time of the announcement. Just a thought.

Makes sense, thanks for explaining. I would assume we will find out shortly.

questions wrote:

TICK TOCK TICK TOCK

Well the clock is ticking and we should all know pretty soon that this is about nothing.

Really! Jeez, well at least he didn't hit us with a million ads and prize-winning notifications when we clicked the guy's link.

As for the livery itself, I hope the mystery major airline didn't spend much money on it -- it's kinda absurd. What does it signify?

JAAlbert wrote:

Really! Jeez, well at least he didn't hit us with a million ads and prize-winning notifications when we clicked the guy's link.

As for the livery itself, I hope the mystery major airline didn't spend much money on it -- it's kinda absurd. What does it signify?

The crane’s tail feathers... interpreted in the creative world as... one flew over the (design team’s) cuckoo’s nest.

The only way this could be interpreted to be the future UA livery is to think of it as a combination of both the Tulip and the CO Globe. The curved shape comes from the globe and the four lines represent the four sections of the UA Tulip (which itself represented the 4 time zones of the U.S. mainland). However, this to me seems like an unlikely guess and there's no doubt in my mind that we're looking at a concept for LH that didn't get chosen.

Its one of the drafts for the new LH design to narrow down the "ball park" for the final livery.

Just online:
http://www.aero.de/news-29258/Lufthansa ... mium2.html

Haha, case closed. Someone was having some fun.

Shame that three out of the four drafts look better than what LH has chosen lol

senatorflyer wrote:

Shame that three out of the four drafts look better than what LH has chosen lol

I do not agree at all. None of the other livery suggestions is timeless, none good enough to last more than a decade, none really premium.

It was one of Lufthansa's new designs that got rejected... not sure why it pops up on certain websites... propably some kind of gossip monger.

na wrote:

Just online:
http://www.aero.de/news-29258/Lufthansa ... mium2.html

Their choice was for most boring .. Navy might be a premium color, but do it poorly and it's the opposite

Well, I would have liked number three with the crane!

Cheers!

Actually they could have took part of the third design with the yellow crane and incorporated it with the blue tail and the large Lufthansa lettering on the side in blue. It would have stood out.

A bit of colour, by myself, and the result would have been much better (or less bad):

Giving up the crane would be a huge mistake.

seahawk wrote:

Giving up the crane would be a huge mistake.

Yeah but it would be modern, minimal and what else...? Oh yeah "premium"

s.p.a.s. wrote:

A bit of colour, by myself, and the result would have been much better (or less bad):

I wish their new livery had some yellow like this. Maybe if they made the tail crane yellow instead of white, it would look a little more interesting.

In the end the current livery just needs a tiny stripe of yellow in front of the blue tail.

terrificturk wrote:

It was one of Lufthansa's new designs that got rejected... not sure why it pops up on certain websites... propably some kind of gossip monger.

Wow, I'm really bemused by so much speculative foam being produced in this thread just by a rejected design.

MoKa777 wrote:

Oh yeah, and, SAA should never give up the rainbow colours. I may be biased though... Haha

I love this augmentation concept of the current livery. The fuselage may be getting a touch busy but the red sky sunset and flying Springbok blended into the flag are poetry.




YOWza

sadiqutp wrote:

na wrote:

Just online:
http://www.aero.de/news-29258/Lufthansa ... mium2.html

Their choice was for most boring .. Navy might be a premium color, but do it poorly and it's the opposite

I really dislike the new livery because it lacks any yellow, but christ almighty this only yellow version looks 100x worse. If it was between the actual new livery and the picture above I'd take the blue one we got any day.

None of the proposed schemes are particularly great, but IMO the best is #3 with the full crane, even though it gives off distinct Atlantic Airways vibes.

All that traffic this topic had the day before has suddenly disappeared. Where is all the talk now that it was revealed not to be United (which was a ridiculous guess anyway, as they would have done something new on the 787 or 777-300ER already)?

N415XJ wrote:

...even though it gives off distinct Atlantic Airways vibes.

I would rather say Kuwait Airways

https://www.airliners.net/photo/Kuwait-A ... ER/4187871

kameleonten wrote:

N415XJ wrote:

...even though it gives off distinct Atlantic Airways vibes.

I would rather say Kuwait Airways

https://www.airliners.net/photo/Kuwait-A ... ER/4187871

My thoughts exactly. Looks like the old UA tulip livery merged with Kuwait

NYPECO wrote:

s.p.a.s. wrote:

A bit of colour, by myself, and the result would have been much better (or less bad):

I wish their new livery had some yellow like this. Maybe if they made the tail crane yellow instead of white, it would look a little more interesting.

This livery design actually looks better than the present one.

seahawk wrote:

In the end the current livery just needs a tiny stripe of yellow in front of the blue tail.

Yes something to give it contrast or put the crane logo in yellow.

From what I’ve seen, this was one of the proposed new liveries for Lufthansa that was later passed on

freakyrat wrote:

NYPECO wrote:

s.p.a.s. wrote:

A bit of colour, by myself, and the result would have been much better (or less bad):

I wish their new livery had some yellow like this. Maybe if they made the tail crane yellow instead of white, it would look a little more interesting.

This livery design actually looks better than the present one.

Ick. It looks like a bad version of Copa Airlines

Or Copa's special livery advertising in flight wifi or something.

Well it's Monday...

sadiqutp wrote:

na wrote:

Just online:
http://www.aero.de/news-29258/Lufthansa ... mium2.html

Their choice was for most boring .. Navy might be a premium color, but do it poorly and it's the opposite

Number 3 actually doesn't look too bad though

smi0006 wrote:

VSMUT wrote:

What upcoming A350 deliveries do we have? Philippine Airlines, Delta, Lufthansa, China Airlines, LATAM and Singapore?

LATAM and Lufthansa just changed theirs, so unlikely.

That leaves:

Philippine Airlines - Pretty old paintjob they have right now.
Delta - Would be weird without the Delta triangle
China Airlines - The colours sorta match
Singapore - Just announced that they will merge with SilkAir. Possibly a major rebranding of the entire group coming up? It certainly fits with the "major airline" part.

PR also mentioned recently they were going to under go a rebrand, if this is a draft only and more colour is added - could be for PR.

Why change livery if its beautiful as it is?its the only livery with a sunriser!its pretty recognizeable worldwide!'Philippines' is the only thing i would change.

It was Lufthansa,