The sky is blue, so why your plane should be simply white? Paint it in all the colors of a sunset... and pretty up the skies!
Some airline companies are clearly out-painting competition with their groovy air fleet. Often called "aircraft livery", such special paint schemes can be exciting and even inspirational. Japan Airlines with their Disney jumbo jets comes to mind, in particular, plus Australian Qantas Airways has been commissioning famous artists to come up with exotic art for their "birds".
On this page we feature some particularly wild and even outrageous airliner paint schemes, from all over the world - send us more examples you spot in the airports or even if you had opportunity to fly inside one of these yourself...
SkyEurope Airlines smile in the sky,
Or a wicked mummy image (Astraeus - Iron Maiden plane)? Why not! -
Art Planes and Special Event Promotions
First off, Qantas unveiled truly mind-boggling painting scheme for its jumbo jets in "Flying Art" series...
Qantas even used some groovy lighting to make a memorable presentation for the delivery of its first A380 -
Lufthansa's soccer nose , and the whole 2006 FIFA World Championship team painted on TunisAir Airbus A320:
JAL "Samurai" national soccer team
AirAsia Manchester United soccer players
Aeroflot's Boeing 767-300 "Russian Olympic Team" -
From abstract art to portraits of famous people -
Austrian Airlines,
Smiling faces, and overall cute demeanor -
German Wings "Berlin" plane, another German Wings smile
Zsuzsanna Laky (Miss Europe 2003), and "Adriana" plane from SkyEurope Airlines
Air New Zealand "Lord of the Rings" livery
Animated characters! -
JAL Boeing 747-446D and other "Dream Express" variations,
Most colorful Dream Express, in two different flavours! -
All Nippon Airways
Another All Nippon Airways
Simpsons livery,
Commercial Branding and Advertising on Planes
Did you know there was a "Pepsi" Concorde?
Virgin Blue (from Australia) advertising Gillette
Bulgari Designer Watches, - and Avis car in the skies,
Malaysia Airlines, and "Sleep Well" plane
Dragon Air,
Alaskan Air - and Horizon Air cool livery,
Even NATO joined in with their own creative military plane livery:
... Incredible painted German "Tornado" jets formation! -
Apparently you have to be very careful where you place your artwork - mind these window openings! In some cases they appear to be placed strategically, covering this girl areas? -
... and in others, it's clearly a "fail" situation - see the ugly window openings instead of nice eyes of girl on the right:
And finally, in terms of luring passengers into the planes... Western Pacific marketers seem to get it right.
