New CSA Livery Revealed

ENU · Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:31 pm

Source: http://www.skyliner-aviation.de/viewphoto.main?LC=nav2&picid=4093

What do you think? To me it's seems a bit boring without the colour blue... CSA will gradually paint all their a/c in this colour, it will take about 5 years.

PlymSpotter · Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:34 pm

Not a patch on the old one, I do like the new CSA 'widget' logo, but the rest is just your standard boring Euro-white.

Dan Smile

UK_Dispatcher · Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:40 pm

I like the CSA logo on the fuselage, but what the hell is that on the tail!?! They could have done something better than this.

OceansWorld · Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:40 pm

Quoting ENU (Thread starter):
What do you think?

Boring! How much have they spent on it ? Have they got a discount for the white paint ? Big grin

LifelinerOne · Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:44 pm

Since Ive seen that "widget" I was wondering where I have seen it before... It reminds me of the widget of Smint... Take a look at www.smint.com

All together, a little boring new colorscheme. They could have done better!

Cheers! wave

MCOflyer · Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:45 pm

Quoting PlymSpotter (Reply 1):
Not a patch on the old one, I do like the new CSA 'widget' logo, but the rest is just your standard boring Euro-white.

Well, the widget is awesome but I agree on the boring white part. Could it get any worse?

Hunter

kappel · Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:45 pm

Just terrible. The current livery isn't fantastic, but certainly better than this boring mess. Have designers lost their imagination? Or the execs (more likely the latter). Even if they want a lot of white, they could have at least used some more blue (as in the Czech flag).

TWFirst · Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:48 pm

What is CSAs new "widget" supposed to represent? Has the company put out a press release yet explainig the new branding/logo rationale?

sandrozrh · Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:58 pm

As i said in another thread, it looks just like some cheap LCC livery. I hope they're not going that way alltogether.

cedars747 · Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:04 pm

I dont like it at all

Alex!!!

OHLHD · Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:06 pm

Not good at all. Follows somehow the new AB style.( Colour wise) Wasn't there a thread some time ago about the new CSA logo? Smile

LASoctoberB6 · Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:12 pm

i was never a fan of CSA's livery, but this is even worse...

adriaticflight · Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:27 am

Disastrous! Extremely boring, what a bad move.. the old colours may not have been the most exciting in the world but they were functional and pleasant. This is very very dull in my opinion.

Aleksandar · Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:44 am

Boring!

Quoting UK_Dispatcher (Reply 2):
I like the CSA logo on the fuselage, but what the hell is that on the tail!?! They could have done something better than this.

Yes, the titles look good and they are already put on OK's website, but the rest of the livery

So, in the last few months we got two really boring liveries. First, there was Delta and now CSA. Is it contagious? scared

ushermittwoch · Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:09 am

Maybe this the real expansion for DL in Europe... biting

sandrozrh · Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:32 am

Quoting Aleksandar (Reply 13):
First, there was Delta and now CSA. Is it contagious?

Both Skyteam scratchchin

American 767 · Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:39 am

I don't think it is that ugly but I much prefer the previous one. Anyway we'll get used to it in the years to come.
I think the majority of the 737's will keep their current livery as by the time the whole fleet gets repainted, most of the 737's will be phased out. We'll see probably a couple of 737's in this livery, maybe one 400 and one 500. I don't know if all four A310's will be repainted, but at least one of the four will be. The A320's definitely will because they are the youngest aircraft in the fleet. The ATR's may be repainted as well because they are still young. It depends on when each aircraft gets its D-Check inspection.

Ben Soriano
Brussels Belgium

N353SK · Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:41 am

I'm not a big fan of the guitar pick on the fuselage.

kaitak · Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:47 am

I actually like the current one; the new one isn't too bad. The one airline that I think should be looking to replace its livery is LOT, the current livery of which dates back to the 1980s; maybe they will use the opportunity of the 787's delivery to do this.

What is Czech Airlines' position on new long haul aircraft. I had understood that it was looking for 3-5 acft to replace its A310s, but haven't seen any action taken on this yet.

cgnnrw · Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:06 am

Well this new logo is not "OK" in my book. I think the current livery is quite stylish and not boring at all. Oh well, what do I know? Afterall I'm not an over-paid, unimaginative, couldn't give a crap about airline products marketing person.

PacNWjet · Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:08 am

What was wrong with these liveries? Wink

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L410Turbolet · Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:34 am

Quoting Kaitak (Reply 18):
What is Czech Airlines' position on new long haul aircraft. I had understood that it was looking for 3-5 acft to replace its A310s, but haven't seen any action taken on this yet.

As you can see the management is apparently too busy fixing things that ain't broken. Sad

Quoting PacNWjet (Reply 20):
What was wrong with these liveries?

I don't think they were anything special, but one of the forum members on Czech aviation server airways.cz photoshopped A320 into 1950s "retro livery". It would be actually nice to see one of CSA's jets painted in such livery for the 85th anniversary, which is coming up next year.

http://www.cardatabase.net/modifieda...earch/photo_search.php?id=00007456

flytuitravel · Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:48 am

I like it. Although there is nothing wrong with the current livery, I think its a welcome change and a sign that CSA is modernising... Now can you please get something to replace those A310s?!? Please?

Wink

LTU932 · Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:51 am

I hate it! Why are all of OK's aircraft going to become GlaxoSmithKline logojets now?

krisyyz · Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:59 am

Wow, what a disappointment !
thumbsdown

KrisYYZ

enzedder · Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:18 am

i like it. very smart.

enzedder

Braybuddy · Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:44 am

Quoting Enzedder (Reply 25):
i like it. very smart.

Agreed! Very smart indeed, although I would have preferred a different typeface. Maybe they deliberately went for a 70s retro (a la United) one, but I would have thought upper and lower case would be easier on the eye.

It's about time they ditched the current scheme: it's awful, and must be one of the longest currently in service.

ba319-131 · Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:50 am

Poor, very poor.

Next to no thought put into it, a simple logo, fine but so much white!!

I prefer the current c/s.

Not impressed at all.

M

patroni · Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:04 am

Quoting LifelinerOne (Reply 4):
Since Ive seen that "widget" I was wondering where I have seen it before... It reminds me of the widget of Smint... Take a look at www.smint.com

No... it's the rotating piston of of a Wankel rotary engine: http://www.ro80.nl/ Wink

....or simply the Reuleaux triangle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuleaux_triangle

Besides that I have already forgotten what the livery looks like.... it's that boring.

Boeing777/747 · Fri Sep 21, 2007 7:18 am

Sud Aviation Caravelle window

FWAERJ · Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:02 am

The new livery is nice... but the tail logo reminds me of the logo of the Spanish-language Telefutura TV network in the US (Univision's sister network).

A340600 · Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:07 am

What on earth?! Foul livery with the logo on the tail different from that on the fuselage, lack of brand consistency.

jetdeltamsy · Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:59 am

Quoting PlymSpotter (Reply 1):
but the rest is just your standard boring Euro-white.

...or Euro-Classy. One man's trash is another man's treasure.

HAWAIIAN932 · Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:46 pm

Sorry guys but I like the new scheme for CSA. I also really like the newest Delta livery. Both look very modern and up to date. Wait until you actually see them on a plane and you might change your mind. Some schemes seem as though they were tailor-made for a particular aircraft.

eyes2thesky · Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:54 pm

The count so far: 20 "bad" votes, 6 "good" votes.

Not a fast start for the new scheme. But who said airliners.net represents real-world opinion

I think the logo on the tail looks like half the CBS News "eye" logo.

--edited to add 1 'good' vote

[Edited 2007-09-21 06:06:39]

sq452 · Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:03 pm

Quoting N353SK (Reply 17):
I'm not a big fan of the guitar pick on the fuselage.

Ditto, exactly what I thought....looks boring to me, their old livery is more vibrant than this but I knew that needed an update.

Viscount724 · Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:18 pm

Quoting American 767 (Reply 16):
I don't think it is that ugly but I much prefer the previous one. Anyway we'll get used to it in the years to come.

And it's simpler and cheaper to paint than the current livery. I doubt many, if any, passengers have ever made their decision on which airline to fly on based on the aircraft's livery.

I always liked the current livery which still seems modern, except for the problem with the CSA name since Slovakia became independent. They must get a few questions from passengers from other parts of the world who aren't familiar with recent Czech history asking what the S stands for.

JuniorSpotter · Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:01 pm

I don't know, I find it kind of innovative - don't you see that new snow-ish kind of color they've added to the majority of the fuselage? I've never seen this shade of color on a plane before, and I think it'll match the clouds pretty well...

...AAAAAW, COME ON!!! banghead

I always thought that crap was brown...but I'm beginning to think more and more that it actually is white.

AF Cabin Crew · Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:38 pm

Ia Orana all !

I quite like the new livery, yet again I work for the airline that pioneered the eurowhite liveries...
I think it is a simple and smart livery just like the Delta one which I also like a lot.
Airline liveries are not created for spotters or airline buffs; Most liveries take into account the cost of painting the airplane, how long it will last in time (look at airlines like AF or AA... years without changing or only minor changes), and how the general public will perceive it and by general public we will say business class passengers...

Happy Flying,

AF Cabin Crew

Braybuddy · Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:45 pm

Quoting Eyes2thesky (Reply 34):
Not a fast start for the new scheme. But who said airliners.net represents real-world opinion

Yep. Dyed in the wool traditionalists all of them in here who believe the world ended the day the cheatline disappeared from fuselages forever. Smile

Boeing777/747 · Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:49 pm

Found this:

chris7217 · Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:11 pm

Not really an improvement in my opinon...

The new livery reminds me on Virgin America but their livery is much better indeed.

Chris

speedbirdegjj · Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:59 pm

Is it just me or does this look familiar? scratchchin

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ATHYEG333 · Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:25 pm

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 23):
I hate it! Why are all of OK's aircraft going to become GlaxoSmithKline logojets now?

That's what I was thinking myself! GlaxoSmithKline's logo! Absolutely boring!

I like the old one better for sure... I hope CSA people read this forum before the final painting! lol!

L410Turbolet · Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:44 pm

Quoting ATHYEG333 (Reply 43):
I hope CSA people read this forum before the final painting! lol!

Unfortunately they seem to be determined to implement this ugliness... yuck

It's already on their website:

http://www.czechairlines.com

RussianJet · Fri Sep 21, 2007 7:35 pm

That's a real shame - the present livery is loads better.

fxramper · Fri Sep 21, 2007 7:37 pm

It could be worse - could be DL new livery. yuck

USADreamliner · Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:55 pm

This is not a great livery, and maybe we were expecting something wow ( a la Britney VMa's performance...), but,
At least, they didn't go for another "rear wave" type of livery ( wich is getting boring and unimaginative):

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LXA340 · Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:57 am

Quoting Kaitak (Reply 18):
What is Czech Airlines' position on new long haul aircraft. I had understood that it was looking for 3-5 acft to replace its A310s, but haven't seen any action taken on this yet.

The A332 would fit in nicely, has a good range and is not that much larger than the A310's. Bu seriously they need to offer some better cabin products than what they do now, even lot installed new C seats and is going to receive the B787 soon.

sllevin · Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:36 am

Ugh. I prefer the current livery.

Steve

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