VIDEO: AirTran Making Special Livery – Milwaukee Brewers

AirTran has been fighting hard to get into Milwaukee and they have strong competition. AirTran has quite a few other special liveries already, but this one is special, it is the first baseball livery for AirTran. Catch this Boeing 717 on AirTran’s network and go Brewers!

Source: @FlightBlogger

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Airline Livery of the Week: Germanwings and their SEVEN Airline Liveries

Germanwings Airbus A319 (D-AKNF) with Park Inn Hotels livery

Germanwings Airbus A319 (D-AKNF) with Park Inn Hotels livery

I love special liveries. I am even ok when a livery advertises something to make the airline a little money. However, some liveries just go too far and I think this might be one of them.

First of all, it almost gives me a headache to read what the side of the plane says. Secondly, I just get confused looking at a head-on shot of the plane. Third…well I hate to admit it, but it does get my attention.

By looking at the livery you surely know it is advertising the Park Inn Hotels which love their nice colored boxes. But it might take a little more searching to find the airline flying this plane  (hint: check the engines).

This is an Airbus A319 flying for the airline Germanwings. The airline is based out of Germany and is a low-frills airline. It has a fleet of about 25 Airbus A319′s and flies to just over 65 destinations.

The airline is known for its special liveries. You can check out their T-Mobile airline livery, the popular Bearbus livery, the other T-Mobile livery,  the HamburgShopper livery, the “Mhhhh, Baden-Wurttemberg” livery and I kind of like their “normal” livery.

Wow, that is seven airline liveries in just one post. That has to set a new record!

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Image: Martin Third Av’n

VIDEO: Inside Look at AirTran’s Special Liveries

This video gives a great inside look at the process of painting a plane in a special livery. As a big fan of airline livery, I always love seeing the special liveries that airlines come up with. I just with the industry had more!

Video found via Dan Webb’s blog Things in the Sky.

Airline Livery of the Week: Court Line

Court Line One-Eleven in awesome pink

Court Line One-Eleven in awesome pink

Court Line as a major playing in the holiday charter business in Britain during the 70′s. With the purchase of One-Eleven 500s, the airline went with a very special

pastel combinations on their airplanes: yellow/gold/orange, pink/rose/magenta, pale violet/mauve/purple and light green/mid-green/forest green.

In 1973 Court Line took a big risk and took delivery of two Lockheed L-1011′s. Then the 1970′s oil crisis hit and in 1974, Court Line filed for bankruptcy.

Thank you AirlinesAngel for finding this!

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Vote on JetBlue’s New Tail Livery

These are your five choices. Click on the image to go to the voting page.

These are your five choices. Click on the image to go to the voting page.

JetBlue is about to celebrate its 10th anniversary on February 11, 2010. To get the party started, they asked employees to design a new tail fin livery that will be unveiled during the celebration. JetBlue has the same livery on the body of all their Airbus A320′s, but each one has a unique tail design.

JetBlue had to go through a lot of great submissions, but narrowed it down to the top five shown on this blog. Now you can vote and the highest ranked one will start flying sometime in 2010.

Go place your vote now!

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