North West Airlines is to “re-decorate” their aircraft, by introducing a new livery, to begin appearing on their fleet at the begining of April this year.
The first aircraft to appear in the new livery will be a 747-400 on April 3rd, followed by a 757-300 that is on order, to be delivered later this year (around End of may time). The next aircraft to recieve the new paint will be a DC-10 then the rest of the fleet starting with the DC-9’s.
The fuselage is said to be metallic silver and the tail is to be left red. It will also have large NWA letters on the side of the aircraft, done in “billboard style”.
A total of up to 77 aircraft are expected to painted in the new colours this year alone. It will take several years to complete the whole fleet.
The pictures below show three possible designs.
By: Cyprioteagle - 25th March 2003 at 17:52
Whats wrong with the current one???? it is relatively nice and modern… but if they want to change it i would prefer the first one.. even though it is too silverish as the previous guy mentioned…. and too redish… they need to modify it a bit, perhaps change the colour of the belly to any other colour than silver
Regarding the current Air France c/s.. it is nice.. whats wrong with it? it is simple.. white and white…. it just the airplanes needs washing and painting..
🙂
Elias
By: planejurgen - 24th March 2003 at 19:21
I like the old one best, still like it very much, but if they have to change it please do 2 , the rest sucks big time, too silver
By: Bhoy - 23rd March 2003 at 23:23
yeah, so, it needs a visit to the paintshop… it won’t matter what they paint on it, though…
By: A330Crazy - 23rd March 2003 at 21:51
Hand you have to agree that the AF livery has gone a bit down hill… look at this example, you see a fair few of the AF fleet in this state nowadays.
By: Selsport69 - 23rd March 2003 at 15:23
1st one for me. The second looks like the painter has had one to many beers.:D
By: Hand87_5 - 23rd March 2003 at 11:39
A330 , maybe you can suggest one or two ?
By: A330Crazy - 21st March 2003 at 23:35
Well dont bet on it being Air France. :rolleyes:
By: T5 - 21st March 2003 at 23:11
I like both the first and second possibilities, both great looks.
I wonder who will be the next big airline to surprise us with a livery change!
By: A330Crazy - 20th March 2003 at 17:45
Hand… North west dont operate the A330 yet. They are still on order and are to be delivered within the next few months.
NorthWest did at first decide to bring out the new livery on the first A330 that they recieved, but it seems that they were unable to wait.
By: A330Crazy - 20th March 2003 at 17:37
According to reports, NWA have decided to go with something along the lines of the first design. The silver fuselage with the red tail, that still bears the compass.
We will just have to wait and see what is rolled out on the 3rd.
By: MSR777 - 20th March 2003 at 17:19
Thanks Andrew…Option 1 please. Very nice, puts across a very clean and efficient impression.
By: Saab 2000 - 20th March 2003 at 16:58
Number 1 is excellent… I really like it.
Number 2 looks like something that came of the KLM design board, it reminds me of one of their proposed designs.
By: yagoceron - 20th March 2003 at 16:08
First one is also my favourite.
But I also agree that their metallic 747 freighter livery is terrific.
May well be my favourite of all airlines actually but what would they write in the black part instead of cargo??? Any suggestions.
In CDG we did the handling for Northwest not very interesting professionnally as they decided nearly everything from the USA.
One of my colleagues had to make the dc10 come back to its parking once as he had put an AVI in bulk.
Yago
By: Hand87_5 - 20th March 2003 at 14:12
NW is operating A330 , I wonder why they don’t operate them on North Atlantic routes. Any idea?
By: MapleLeaf_330 - 20th March 2003 at 13:56
I really like the first one. Very clean, smooth and modern.
When are they getting rid of those DC-10s?
By: Hand87_5 - 20th March 2003 at 12:37
#1 is my favorite too.
Some of old NW 747 freighter still have a similar c/s BTW
By: KabirT - 20th March 2003 at 11:23
1st one: great, really like it.
2nd: Hello no
3: too retro.
By: Bhoy - 20th March 2003 at 00:37
Kind of remind me of the old Northwest Orient scheme.
By: greekdude1 - 20th March 2003 at 00:23
I like the 1st one, a lot. That would be a wise choice. Plus, the bare metal fuselage, saves money in the long run, in these fincially troubled times.
By: EGNM - 20th March 2003 at 00:21
prob the same for me – looks a bit more buisness like than the second!
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