Nice to come back home to a thread like this!
The story behind my nick is quite simple but complicated 😉
I have a fascination for classic Scandinavian charter carriers; Scanair, Sterling, Conair to name a few. I even had a 150-page website about Scanair once upon a time. Scanair (1961-1993, DC-8, A300, DC-10) was a sister company to SAS.
Other than aviation, I enjoy travelling in Germany and read about German history (hrrm…). A side-effect of this is a healthy interest in the German airline business and
Lufthansa in particular. The German charter scene is/was quite similar to the Scandinavian one, and the pride of the German charter airlines was Condor, which like Scanair was a sister company to the national airline.
Until they got raped by Thomas Cook, Condor used the slogan [i]Condor – Ihr Sonnenflieger[/i] (Condor – Your Sunflyer) which I really liked.
Thus my nick Sonnenflieger…
What’s the mismatch? Every plane in the SAS fleet has a white and orange/red bit so am I missing something?
You’re correct but incorrect –
The mismatch is that the rear engine cowling says Scandin and then much higher on the forward cowling is avian, this is what happens when you take a left engine inner cowling and use it for the outer side of the right engine! 🙂
Wonder if the Scandinavian MyT A330s ever will get repainted, it’s been almost three years since the namechange and they still look awful with that hybrid livery.
Most A320s are now repainted, though, and of course the new A321s. They are very good looking, unlike the aircraft wearing the new Novair livery…
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