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New livery for Malaysia Airlines! This 737-800 completes its first test flight in the new color scheme.
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    Rick Schlamp
    Malaysia Airlines
    Boeing 737-8H6
    Boeing 737-800 (BBJ2/C-40/P-8)
    Boeing 737-800 (BBJ2/C-40/P-8)
    Boeing
    40128
    3421
    9M-MXA
    Seattle - Boeing Field / King County International
    Washington
    USA
    October 15, 2010
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Comments (66)

Anonymous
12 years ago
Love the New Livery, it looks Brilliant, well done Malaysia Airlines and Thank You Rick for a great crisp clear picture.
Anonymous
12 years ago
The tail seems to have funny ripples in it? Cant wait to see the 747s in this livery..
Anonymous
12 years ago
A new livery for MAS =) Not bad
Anonymous
12 years ago
New aicraft, new livery, new interior!!!
Anonymous
12 years ago
Can't wait to see this livery in MH's A380 mode
Anonymous
12 years ago
Great picture. As for the livery... it looks unfinished.
Anonymous
12 years ago
Doesn't look good.. prefer the old one
Anonymous
12 years ago
Love the new scheme!!! i've been waiting for them 2 change the livery for 18 years!!!
Anonymous
12 years ago
I don't like this at all....i like more the previous one...
Anonymous
12 years ago
The new livery just make the airline looks cheap!
Anonymous
12 years ago
Pretty underwhelming if you ask me, I was expecting something much more creative.

Regards from SoCal.
Anonymous
12 years ago
This is not an improvement compared to the former livery.
Anonymous
12 years ago
Nope. Thumbs down. The flag especially looks out of place IMO. Perhaps they could have done well to remove it from that spot and increase the font size of 'Malaysia'.
Anonymous
12 years ago
This is what i want Malaysia Airlines!!..
Anonymous
12 years ago
That is one stylish scheme! Can't wait to see the big boys in the new colours.
Anonymous
12 years ago
The new one looks good!
Anonymous
12 years ago
Nice, but nothing spectacular, had hoped for something more exciting.
Anonymous
12 years ago
Finally MH have new colour sheme.
Anonymous
12 years ago
Very nice pic! New livery? Only slightly better than the old one (gone are the grey underbelly bits) but in my honest opinion, could have done better!
Anonymous
12 years ago
I love the new livery! Great shot!
Anonymous
12 years ago
Looks quite nice, improvement on the dull grey underside
Anonymous
12 years ago
Nice!!
Anonymous
12 years ago
Amazing livery!
Anonymous
12 years ago
I have wait so long until now for MAS to change their livery.can't wait for the big boys and change their look into this!
Anonymous
12 years ago
Looks ok. Far better then their old livery but I hoped for something more special. Like a Egyptair/Garuda livery change.
Anonymous
12 years ago
I was so exited to see the new livery, but I'm a little bit dissapointed now. I expected something more exciting, but this new livery isn't a good improvement.
Anonymous
12 years ago
The 737 just keeps on getting streched. The main landing gears don't seem to change; will just have to suck it up.
Anonymous
12 years ago
Could have been better
Anonymous
12 years ago
Too much white. It looks unimaginative. Thumbs down!
Anonymous
12 years ago
...the new livery seems a bit cheap...it makes Malaysia Airlines look like a LCC! I prefered the old one, because it looks like a retro style livery, without actually being one!
Anonymous
12 years ago
Nice scheme :)
Anonymous
12 years ago
From my point of view as a designer,the livery looks cheap. Quite disappointing,I was expecting something more creative than this.Perhaps not enough thought have been put into the design of the new livery.
Anonymous
12 years ago
Rather elegant livery I guess. I love it.
Anonymous
12 years ago
Better than the old livery but still bland.
Anonymous
12 years ago
Not the best. I had hope that the livery would be greater. The last special c/s looks so great and the "normal" livery issn´t good.
Anonymous
12 years ago
Nice picture with this new color scheme. a slight change with a slightly better look. not much. but we can always say it's a positive change.
Anonymous
12 years ago
Could have done better. Imagine all the 738 in this colour scheme. Boring!!!
Anonymous
12 years ago
Approximately 1981, after the original two red lines had been tapered to the tail cone in the first modification, MH trialled 2 further (minor) variations. Niether of these two trials, which involved sweeping one of the red lines up to the fin, came to pass and they stayed with version 2 (tapered lines). Maybe this new one is just testing the water. . . . Regards - musang
Anonymous
12 years ago
The first new look of Malaysia Airlines! The height of the aircraft on this shot is just great and the contrast of the dark back ground with white aircrat is just perfect!
Anonymous
12 years ago
Once again MAS has proved that they are under cost saving arena,livery looks very simple and the previous livery where red and blue line trails towards the tail cone now shorten up to the mid fuselage.Eventually it looks better for narrow body 738 but not on a wide body aircraft.
Anonymous
12 years ago
Not so much of a WoW factor, too much white and it looks very sharky - Igevu
Anonymous
12 years ago
Looks like a Philippine-based LCC carrier to me. Love the shot though :)
Anonymous
12 years ago
Fuselage stripes quite resemble Philippine Airlines' tail minus the sun, but note that blue and red are found on both countries' flags
Anonymous
12 years ago
Good improvement but they should have updated their old jellyfish logo too.
Anonymous
12 years ago
Nice shot, but disappointing livery. How is this an improvement? The old one is way better than this. If only MH chose the Heliconia or the Hibiscus theme as their standard livery...
Anonymous
12 years ago
5 out of 10, too much white, no creativity
Anonymous
12 years ago
I like it
Anonymous
12 years ago
Too much white !
Anonymous
12 years ago
5 stars to the photo, 1 for the livery. I don't like it over the old classic one. However, if they had more red stripes like in the flag and also the yellow sun and moon like in the real flag, just in a kind of waving over the whole fuselage, then it would be nice. Now, it looks unfinished to me.
Anonymous
12 years ago
Finished or unfinished, the malaysiaairlines titles and the stripes seems like the livery is poorly designed.The colors does not reflect Malaysia,i see it more like a Philippine or Nepal LCC.
Anonymous
12 years ago
4* for the pic,1* for the livery! I was hoping for a better evolution, just like GA/MS/SU did.... Even their sister company (firefly/MASwings) livery is MUCH better than this one!
Anonymous
12 years ago
I agree,they should come out with a new logo replacing the old jellyfish.
Anonymous
12 years ago
It seems that they are going to fight AK/TR instead of SQ/TG.. I hope that this is not "the real deal", will look weird on the A380s
Anonymous
12 years ago
Nice Job!! MAS and i really don't see anything wrong with the WAU Logo and oh yeah that's not Jellyfish!!..
Anonymous
12 years ago
Hope they paint the MASkargo planes like this one as well...
Anonymous
12 years ago
Could have done better. Why don't they update the jellyfish symbol as well?
Anonymous
12 years ago
Nice shot, not so nice livery. at first glance thought it was BA in some special livery :p
Anonymous
12 years ago
Not bad.I think this livery don't looks so good on a wide body aircraft especially on the T7.Anyway,well done MAS!!
Anonymous
12 years ago
I dont like it. Prefer the old livery.
What a disappointment, for one of my favorite airlines
Anonymous
12 years ago
There's a reason for having lots of white...it reflects heat...and as for the livery..could be more creative.
Anonymous
12 years ago
Quite a bad livery! looks more like a charter-airline than a serious 5-star-airline! I hope they create a better livery by the time they get their A 380s! That livery on the big airbus ??? NO WAY, should look weird!
a dissapointment...
Anonymous
12 years ago
It is said that this new livery saves fuel costs because it supposedly weights less. I think Malaysian Airlines said that to make an excuse for this simple livery.
Anonymous
12 years ago
After staying with its existing livery for a long time, MAS should have taken this opportunity to create something better.
Anonymous
12 years ago
Simple new livery design....
Anonymous
12 years ago
4 stars for the photographer. Excellent photo with perfect timing. Despite that, not so good livery. It may look fine on a 737-800 or maybe the A330 (yes they did that too), but once this livery is applied to a 747, 777 or A380, it won't good. It's not good enough for a national carrier.
Anonymous
11 years ago
Clean and fresh new look of malaysia airlines plane..

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