gebbw
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Post by gebbw on Jul 21, 2012 9:56:30 GMT 12
Air New Zealand has announced an update to it's livery. New aircraft entering the fleet will have black tails and new lettering for the titles. theflyingsocialnetwork.com/archives/3357What do you think? I do not like it. It's a bit dull for me and I'm sad to see the loss of the teal/blue. regards George
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2012 11:05:09 GMT 12
I like the new font, but I will definitely miss the blues. Like the Wanganui Aero Work planes losing their red, it's a big part of our aviation history being stripped away and discarded.
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Post by tfly on Jul 21, 2012 11:20:01 GMT 12
It's a bit like every sporting team cashing in on the All Blacks! Tall Blacks, Black Sticks, Blackcaps etc etc it's all rather tiring and unimaginative even if black is our national colour. My biggest fear being the black flag and modernised silver fern logo will become our national flag next! I find it all a bit naff, in fact its boring and predictable! Enough already!
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Post by spitfire14 on Jul 21, 2012 12:05:32 GMT 12
While I agree it is sad to see the teal blue go in some ways, I quite like this new scheme....looks quite modern and bold....almost futuristic and is instantly recognizable as New Zealand.
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Post by corsair67 on Jul 21, 2012 12:29:48 GMT 12
It's a bit like every sporting team cashing in on the All Blacks! Tall Blacks, Black Sticks, Blackcaps etc etc it's all rather tiring and unimaginative even if black is our national colour. My biggest fear being the black flag and modernised silver fern logo will become our national flag next! I find it all a bit naff, in fact its boring and predictable! Enough already! +1 "The airline worked in collaboration with world leading Kiwi typeface designer Kris Sowersby and Designworks to develop exclusive new lettering for the Air New Zealand name. Kris’ previous clients include the prestigious Harvard Business Review." Yeah, that 'new' font looks sooooooooo new, exclusive, different and groundbreaking - and I bet that only cost them a cool half a million dollars to come up with it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2012 15:59:01 GMT 12
Air Blacks?
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jul 21, 2012 17:19:56 GMT 12
Sad to see the blue/green livery go.
I have always thought it is a very 'Pacific Ocean' colour. If you have every flown up around Samoa/Tonga/Cook Islands and looked at the sea colours around there, you'll know what I mean.
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Post by Bruce on Jul 21, 2012 18:04:10 GMT 12
I dont mind it, although I would have liked to see something like a stylised fern frond on the forward fuselage to make it look a little less "plain pack". Black is the colour associated with NZ around the world, and the "All blacks" Airbuses etc have proved quite popular. Unfortunately it will never be practical to paint the whole fleet in that scheme so the new one is a bit of a compromise. Teal green is a "heritage" link back to the flying boat days, but I don't think the general public would be aware of that connection. Sad to see the green go, but Black is still OK...
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Post by flyjoe180 on Jul 22, 2012 15:13:40 GMT 12
It's boring.
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Post by Tony on Jul 23, 2012 0:38:06 GMT 12
The only way to go Flew this one to LA, she really stood out in a line of boring white hulls
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gebbw
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Post by gebbw on Jul 23, 2012 8:46:17 GMT 12
I don't like the all-black scheme. I don't agree that black is the national colour and I don't care for rugby that much at all. Don't flame me, it is just my opinion.
If anything, I think they could have done the inverse of the all-black scheme for their new livery as a minimum and it probably would have looked quite good.
The 'new' scheme just does not make me proud at all.
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Post by harrysone on Aug 3, 2012 11:01:22 GMT 12
I would dispute the claim that black is "our nation's colour" as well. I would have thought the Pacific Blue livery was something to be justifiably proud of, it does stand out on its own.
the current scheme is just another "Cash-in" on the stupid All-Blacks, it is un-inspiring. I guess however, the no-frills The black scheme would be cheap to paint/maintain for the airline.
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Post by ngatimozart on Aug 3, 2012 20:10:54 GMT 12
I prefer the black scheme the B777 is painted in above. I think the new white scheme with the balck grapics boring. Black is our national colour and has been for well over a century now. The All Blacks are internationally recognised both within the rugby world and outside the rugby world. As for them being stupid I find that a somewhat disparaging remark. If they were stupid they wouldn't be at the pinacle of their game.
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Post by beagle on Aug 3, 2012 20:26:59 GMT 12
The above scheme is great, but with everybody's sad loss of the teal, maybe the black on the forward fuselage merging into teal would finish it off and make everyone happy.
But the costs of this must be horendous......
The new black font and black tail, na, big step backward. People will think we are a gloomy country with no colour.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 3, 2012 20:49:25 GMT 12
What matter does the colour scheme make, so long as they get their passengers to their destinations on time, safely and with satisfaction?
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Post by corsairarm on Aug 3, 2012 20:57:40 GMT 12
If it aint Teal Blue it aint Air NZ. I do like the colour scheme of the B777 but just keep it to special planes/occassions, one off events. The new colour scheme is as boring a fffffffudge!!. Sorry I was nearly going to say Ferns there.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Aug 4, 2012 9:14:55 GMT 12
What matter does the colour scheme make, so long as they get their passengers to their destinations on time, safely and with satisfaction? In that case, Dave, why did the taxpayer rescue ANZ? For less money and lower risk we could have subcontracted the whole thing to Singapore Airlines.
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Post by flyjoe180 on Aug 4, 2012 12:33:32 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 4, 2012 12:49:36 GMT 12
So Peter, are you saying the airline was rescued by the taxpayer purely based on it's colour scheme?
Over the years Air New Zealand has operated loads of aircraft in plain overall white with the words Air New Zealand on the side before, no-one complained about the lack of Koru and blue/teal on them.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Aug 4, 2012 13:44:51 GMT 12
No I'm not, Dave. My point is that:
Either the airline is purely a functional common-carrier passenger and freight service, in which case we contract it out to the lowest safe and efficient bidder and all save money and effort
Or it represents New Zealand to the world at large in which case people overseas look at the image portrayed by the aircraft and the staff and form their opinion of the country from what they see.
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