Every so often we see airlines introduce special liveries, typically to celebrate a partnership, cause, or milestone. Emirates has quite a few aircraft in special liveries, and I love most of them. The Dubai-based carrier has just unveiled its newest one-off livery, and it’s… ummm, unique?
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It looks all right on single story planes, like when ITA does it. On the A380 though, it just doesn't work for me.
I personally think it's hideous. I don't think of the colors of the NBA logo, like ever. They should have had Basketballs/Hoops the Logo repeated, 5 key players, anything else. This is awful looking.
I can understand both sides. But it looks great, and it's good to see Dubai embracing basketball.
It's very Philadelphia 76ers. I get using red white and blue to reflect the league logo but I feel like most folks who watch pro basketball would get the same impression. A more judicious use of color would have looked better.
Yeah this just looks bad on the A380.
Besides, what does an NBA partnership in terms of the soft product even mean? If ‘court side menu’ is anything like regular American stadium/arena food, you get what… relatively basic hotdogs and stuff..? I’d much prefer the Hello Kitty planes EVA does
Terrible - should have done something like the wildlife plane with a bunch of NBA images on white background
Why did they take these photos backlit by the morning sun? I happen to love that shade of blue but this isn’t doing it for me.
It's an A380. It can't more hideous than that disgusting pile of airborne adipose tissue.
Flew on A6-EEQ the same animals slightly different United for Wildlife upfront. Was in 50A right near the hind paws of the tiger 🙂
Seriously looking for the 1:200 scale model of the United for Wildlife, however the version I flew on only exists it's in the 1:400 and 1:144 Revell kit. The actual 1:200 version is of the picture Ben posted
Love it, much more cohesive than most of their other ones. The only one I never really liked was the colourful dot, Expo 2020 livery
Yep, my first reaction was the same. Saw the photo first, expected the title to say "Southwest get their first A380". Could be fun - an all economy, free-for-all boarding A380 🙂
My mistake, but the overarching question stands. Overall the lighting is poor and it’s hard to tell what the blue really looks like in full sunlight. The setting is beautiful but I find it an odd choice.
Ironically, this plane wouldn't even fly to the location of NBA Cup.
It's like advertising ICC World Cup on Southwest.
For some reason, I've never been a fan of dark blue & dark red as a color combination. It's not particularly ugly, but it just looks dull in a way. That being said, this is still a fairly good-looking livery (it even looks kind of sleek), and, looks aside, it stands out, which is great.
It also kind of reminds me of the Expo 2020 livery, albeit a bit more lifeless due to the color combination I mentioned above.
Overall, I'd give it a 7/10. Again, it's not the most "lively", but it still manages to look good, and distinctiveness is always a plus.
With the tail still being in 'regular' Emirates branding, this thing becomes a 'miss' in my eyes. It's a bit chaotic, little consistent and doesn't look like it's been though through that much. I'm pretty sure that they could have done much more with this if they would have given it a bit more effort.