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PatrickZ80 wrote:Agreed about the AA bare metal livery, they kept it for way too long. Should have been retired decades earlier. It was okay when it was first introduced, it fitted the time. I wouldn't say it was one of the most beautiful liveries back then but it was acceptable. However when the time came to replace it, they didn't. They desperately held on to it until they couldn't anymore.
Another example of an overrated livery would be the BA Landor livery. People say it's iconic, I don't feel that way. I just don't have anything with it.
bfitzflyer wrote:The Braniff flyer colors was hideous. I guess I am not being too restrained, lol. Also was not a fan of the NW Bowling shoe.
vatveng wrote:Disagree about the UA Battleship Gray livery. I think it's one of the worst in history. Very stuffy, corporate-feeling. The stripes on the tail just make it even more so, they looked to me like a ledger book. The US Airways livery of the same era, which was essentially a United plane flying upside-down (both liveries were conceived by the same person) is just as bad. But I absolutely loved the liveries that both US and UA replaced the Blue/Gray with. Blue Rising was an amazing livery that was criminally short-lived. When the merged UA/CO adopted the Continental livery (another really overrated livery) I was very disappointed.
sydramper wrote:The Air France livery that is usually covered in dirt
vatveng wrote:Disagree about the UA Battleship Gray livery. I think it's one of the worst in history. Very stuffy, corporate-feeling. The stripes on the tail just make it even more so, they looked to me like a ledger book. The US Airways livery of the same era, which was essentially a United plane flying upside-down (both liveries were conceived by the same person) is just as bad. But I absolutely loved the liveries that both US and UA replaced the Blue/Gray with. Blue Rising was an amazing livery that was criminally short-lived. When the merged UA/CO adopted the Continental livery (another really overrated livery) I was very disappointed.
macsog6 wrote:LH's current scheme. Cannot understand why they abandoned the blue-gold-white of past years.
gunsontheroof wrote:I don’t care much for Delta’s current livery and never have. It’s not especially abominable, I just think it reeks of design meetings where the words “professional” and “clean” were flying around the room every day.
PANAMsterdam wrote:macsog6 wrote:LH's current scheme. Cannot understand why they abandoned the blue-gold-white of past years.
It’s a very white plane now with just a black… eh… blue tail and some yellow cookie crumbs next to the doors.