New livery Virgin rolled out

I don’t see why they need to change livery given that they have a very smart one now.

i agree and it looks awful

errrrr no… it’s as purple as an extremely purple thing can be! I know, I get to see it closer than anybody.

Maybe Sir Richard should name this plane “Smoke On The Water” in memory of the ‘deep purple’ that alas is no more… 😀

Can’t say I am crazy about these colours. Maybe its the angle and the lighting which gives the impression these colours are just a bit too dark. I do prefer the current livery.

lets just say its Blue-Purple 😉 😀

James

errrrr no… it’s as purple as an extremely purple thing can be! I know, I get to see it closer than anybody.

I find it amazing how many people thought that the missing colour was blue. It never was blue it was purple!!! This was backed up with the cabin crew uniforms being red and purple.

The new colours are a plan to start harmonising the schemes of all the present and future Virgin Group colour schemes. The change of logo that occurred a couple of months back was the start of the whole process.

lets just say its Blue-Purple 😉 😀

James

Hmmm. Not keen from the pic, but I think it might look better in the flesh to be honest.

How will this affect Virgin Express/SNBA? Does the Virgin group still have control, no matter how little, over VEX?

Hmmm. Not keen from the pic, but I think it might look better in the flesh to be honest.

I find it amazing how many people thought that the missing colour was blue. It never was blue it was purple!!! This was backed up with the cabin crew uniforms being red and purple.

The new colours are a plan to start harmonising the schemes of all the present and future Virgin Group colour schemes. The change of logo that occurred a couple of months back was the start of the whole process.

Not a head turning colourscheme…but it’ll do lol. Ihope its like the Thomsonfly c/s where it grows on us.

You get used to it soon Ben 😉 be the same if Aer Lingus changed from Green to pink 😀

James

Wilag what you say is true. But if they are that desperate to keep costs down then why bother changing it at all. Now they have to pay to get them flown to where ever they will get repainted, stripped down and repainted again!

Not too keen on it myself
Of note,that it is is in the same colour scheme as Virgin Galactics new space craft thingy.

Not a head turning colourscheme…but it’ll do lol. Ihope its like the Thomsonfly c/s where it grows on us.

Although a subtle change, it doesent look THAT bad. As said before…you will get used to it.

Only a subtle change but it makes the aircraft look like it has much cleaner lines

I like it, it reminds me of the second VS livery which I much preferred to the current one.

Photos all from airliners.net

1L.

The new livery looks like a cheap and tacky charter look.
Bad move, IMHO, imagewise.
Though I would guess they’re doing this to keep the maintenance cost down.

As per everything else these days, 2 colours cost less when they need repainting, thus keeps operating cost down, we get cheaper flights.
And also it may be boring for us guys to look at but they don’t consider that when there is a business to run.

Rgds
Andy

Looks unfinished!

Ive just found quite an interesting site about Virgin Atlantics flights from US to London, each with a unique name: www.virginatlanticflights.com, don’t know if anyone else has seen it.

Cool. I’ll be on “The Wide Eye” then in February 😎

Doesn’t look very different at all…