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AirTran Paints Its Planes To Celebrate The Birds Of The NFL
Fans of the Baltimore Ravens and Atlanta Falcons now have an easy pick when it comes to choosing their favorite airline—it has to be AirTran. The airline that loves in-flight WiFi has just released a Boeing 717 dubbed Ravens One from the hangar, and the plane is ready to shuttle fans to away games around the country.
Just a couple weeks ago, the airline pulled the masking tape off another plane dedicated to the Atlanta Falcons. It’s fitting that AirTran has a thing for football teams named after birds. However, the airline is also planning to release a plane with an Indianapolis Colts livery in just a few weeks. From what we’ve seen of Peyton Manning’s acting skills in commercials, we have little doubt that he’ll be the featured pitchman for the Colts’ new plane.
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JetBlue Shakes Its Newest Tailfeather
You may call us whatever you want, but we really enjoy when an airline decides to change things up with their paint scheme. It’s nothing too dramatic, but JetBlue revealed some new colors, patterns, and font for their fleet last week. The most noticeable change in the livery is that they’ve really increased the size of the wording on the sides of their planes. You’ll now know that a JetBlue plane is getting ready to come into the gate from a mile away. These changes will take place over some time, so if you’re headed out to the airport this week, you’ll probably be stuck with the old livery.
Any fan of airlines knows that JetBlue loves different designs for their tails; dots, stripes, plaid...it's all theirs. Along with upgrades elsewhere, they’ve released a new tail design—blueberries. It’s pretty much just some snazzy blue circles with white at the top, but like we said—new tail designs are awesome. Despite its simplicity, we say it’s a winner, and we’ll be eager to see it from T5 at JFK. There should be five of these in the sky by the end of the year.
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Qantas Messes With Its Kangaroo
It all began when the Airbus A380 got a new panel: the Qantas flying kangaroo logo had to be redesigned, since there were now some parts of the panel that weren't allowed to be painted. A few weeks of nervousness followed as some people thought the kangaroo would be taken away forever.
But the result--especially for the A$5 million cost of changing the logo--is surprisingly, well, subtle. Yet reactions haven't been too good: now the feet are too prominent (and too big for an aircraft), and we think the head looks more like a reindeer than a roo. If only they'd gone for our idea: the head of a baby joey sticking out of the pouch. At least they would have won on the cute factor.
But hey, it could have been worse, at least Qantas didn't circumcise their tail widget, right?
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MySpacers Protest Delta Airlines Widget Circumcision
Airline junkies are the best.
Delta Air Lines emerges from bankruptcy with talk of leather seats, on plane HBO, and signature drinks. However, all people on the series of tubes want to talk about is their widget circumcision.
What?
The new Delta Airlines tail paint job will take far less paint than the old design, thus adding less weight to the craft and requiring less fuel. Furthermore they are ditching the waving-flag design, which now equals bankruptcy and replacing it with a return of their classic livery, the widget.
A return of the seventies widget! This got airline grokkers in a frenzy. That is until the new livery images were released. The widget was now turned on its side and circumcised. How dare Delta. Immediately, Keep The Widget Whole kicked into action on MySpace, promising to create an official petition that would make Delta Air Lines "seriously reconsider their proposed livery, and re-design it such that the widget remains whole." Thus far, 64 MySpacers, including "Erictile Dysfunction 2007", "Chasey-Bear", and even Tom himself, have virtually signed the petition by adding KTWW as their friend.
And Delta thought people would just sit back and watch them circumcise a perfectly good widget.
[Photo: ashergrey]
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