Does anyone know why Ryanair 738 EI-DCL is painted in the Boeing Dreamliner livery?
Did it have a prior life as a prototype or test plane or did MOL cut a deal with Boeing to haul their logo around Europe for them?
Just curious, as I was on it the other day and it would be interesting to know if it was the prototype – probably the only one I’ve flown on and possibly the only prototype in commercial service??
Thanks
Seb
By: lmisbtn - 3rd September 2009 at 11:39
Thanks for the answers guys – nothing special about it at all then – just a bit of extra publicity for Boeing I guess.
By: symon - 3rd September 2009 at 11:31
I don’t know then, but I thought I’d read somewhere that they were bringing this in as a new livery. If this is the case then it is horrifically dull!
Just temp to save time and money: http://boeing.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=758
At least something in this program is being well thought out 😉
By: rdc1000 - 3rd September 2009 at 10:30
I thought that was a cheaper scheme to save money.
Will just have to see what they roll the 747-8F out in….
I don’t know then, but I thought I’d read somewhere that they were bringing this in as a new livery. If this is the case then it is horrifically dull!
By: andy15star - 3rd September 2009 at 09:00
And did you realise that it takes an extra 3 days to paint it in those colours than regular colours ??? – think i read that on airliners.net or something !
Andy
By: Vicbitter - 3rd September 2009 at 07:18
I vaguely remember something about it, Boeing did it for a few airlines means they got the aircraft painted for free.
By: tenthije - 2nd September 2009 at 21:58
As Andy said above, they had it painted special c/s for their 60th a/c.. There are quite a lot of a/c flying around in Boeing house c/s..CAL 744,Alaska 738 i shot a Lion Air 739 in Jakarta in the scheme also.. Maybe they get a discount from Boeing for free advertising??:D
And in the past there where also a Korean Airlines 739 (seen at Farnborough) and a Air Berlin 73G. Those two have been painted into regular livery though.
By: Tartan Pics - 2nd September 2009 at 21:22
As Andy said above, they had it painted special c/s for their 60th a/c.. There are quite a lot of a/c flying around in Boeing house c/s..CAL 744,Alaska 738 i shot a Lion Air 739 in Jakarta in the scheme also.. Maybe they get a discount from Boeing for free advertising??:D
By: andy15star - 2nd September 2009 at 20:02
I thought i read somewhere that it was painted in “Dreamliner” colours because it was Ryanair’s x’th 738 delivered or something like that ??. But on further research it was Ryanair’s 60th 738…. nothing special about the 60th is there !.
I remember seeing an Orion Airways 737-200 (G-BHVI) which was Boeing’s 737th 737, no special paint job there though ! :confused:
regards,
Andy
By: rdc1000 - 2nd September 2009 at 16:00
Are they?
As I understand it, these will be the new colours…
By: Newforest - 2nd September 2009 at 15:41
Are they?
May be using these colours in future!:diablo:
By: rdc1000 - 2nd September 2009 at 14:56
Technically it’s not the Dreamliner livery, just the Boeing house colours. Although these are changing again.
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