{"id":6010,"date":"2016-12-05T00:57:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T00:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/?p=6010"},"modified":"2016-12-05T01:07:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T01:07:15","slug":"themed-airline-wraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2016\/12\/05\/themed-airline-wraps\/","title":{"rendered":"Themed Airline Wraps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Examples for advertising subsidized space exploration via:\u00a0http:\/\/list25.com\/25-cool-aircraft-paint-jobs\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Japanese airline, All Nippon Airways, has been decorating it\u2019s planes with the characters from Pokemon ever since 1998
\nto promote Japanese culture. Nicknamed the Pokemon Jets, the airline has six of them which are still in use today. It\u2019s not
\njust the outside that is decorated though, even cabin, headrests, uniforms, food containers and souvenir bags are decorated
\nin Pokemon designs to make the experience a little bit more special.”<\/p>\n

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“South African airline, Kulula Airlines was more than creative with this paint job. The plane is decorated with labels that
\ndescribe the various parts of the plane and gives a brief description for what they\u2019re used for. The airline did this to raise
\nawareness of some of the unknowns of aviation and to also raise awareness of air safety.”<\/p>\n

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“Alaska Air brought out a plane called the \u201cSalmon-Thirty-Salmon\u201d in 2005 (that\u2019s a play on words for 737 which is
\nthe type of plane the airline decorated, a Boeing 737). It was done to celebrate the airlines unique relationship
\nwith the people and communities of Alaska and to also promote the state\u2019s seafood industry. The plane was unfortunately
\nrepainted in 2011 to the dismay of many and after a year long outcry, the airline brought back the paint job in 2012.”<\/p>\n

\"4\"<\/p>\n

“Nok Air is an airline from Thailand. Nok is the Thai word for bird so in English the name can literally be translated into \u201cBird Air\u201d.
\nTo play homage to it\u2019s name, all of it\u2019s aircraft are painted to look like colorful birds. The beak is painted on the nose of the
\nplane and the rest of the plane is painted in many different designs and colors to make up the feathers.”<\/p>\n

\"5\"<\/p>\n

“Swiss Air unveiled a San Francisco themed plane job to celebrate the launch of its non-stop flight from Zurich to San Francisco.
\nThe flower power design includes peace symbols, music notes, love hearts and words painted in hippy like fonts and colors.
\nIt took eight people, three days to paint the aircraft.”<\/p>\n

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“In 2007, to celebrate 20 years of flying to China from Japan, All Nippon Airlines painted one of it\u2019s planes as a Panda,
\none of China\u2019s national symbols. It\u2019s still in service today and is appropriately called the \u201cFly Panda\u201d.”<\/p>\n

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“Air New Zealand makes another appearance on this list. To celebrate the release of The Hobbit and to promote the
\ncountry\u2019s film and tourism industry, the airline painted one of its planes with the characters from the film. Even a specially
\nmade safety video was filmed using the Hobbit characters for this plane.”<\/p>\n

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“Japan Airlines has been the official partner of Disneyland Tokyo and Tokyo DisneySea Waterpark ever since they opened.
\nCharacters such as Micky Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy grace many of the planes the airline has decorated.
\nJapan Airlines announced that they plan to paint six more planes in the future for Disney.”<\/p>\n

\"10\"<\/p>\n

“Etihad Airways were the official sponsors for the Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix back in 2009. To do their part in
\nthe sponsorship, Etihad decided to decorate one of its planes in the traditional colors of Formula 1 which are red,
\nblack and white with the tail painted to look like a chequered flag.”<\/p>\n

\"14\"<\/p>\n

“Qantas decided to show off its countries aboriginal culture and heritage by painting its planes in traditional Aboriginal art.
\nThe first plane was painted in 1994 and 3 more have been painted since. A team of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists
\nhelped to create its extremely colorful designs.”<\/p>\n

\"15\"<\/p>\n

“To celebrate its sponsorship for the New Zealand All Blacks, Air New Zealand turned one of it\u2019s planes quite literally all black,
\nwith the trademark silver fern logo painted at the end of the plane. Since 2011 they have six planes painted black which
\nare still in service today.”<\/p>\n

\"16\"<\/p>\n

“Yes we know, it\u2019s not a plane, it\u2019s a Concorde! Often seen as a huge feat in modern aviation, the Concorde hasn\u2019t been
\nshort of amazing paint jobs. In 1996 Pepsi went through a re-brand and teamed up with Air France to promote themselves.
\nThe entire Concorde was painted blue and proudly showed off the new Pepsi logo until it was changed in 2003.<\/p>\n

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“Virgin Atlantic is famous for its trademark flying ladies that include Lady Penelope, Lady Luck, Tinker Belle, Barbarella,
\nDiana, Cosmic Girl and Scarlet Lady. Back in 2010 however, to celebrated 10 years of services from Las Vegas to London,
\nVirgin decided to paint Dita Von Teese onto the plane.”<\/p>\n

\"20\"<\/p>\n

“In 2005, Malaysia Airways decorated two of it\u2019s Boeing 747\u2032s with exotic designs based on red Hibiscus flowers.
\nThis was done because the Hibiscus flowers are the national flowers of Malaysia. Unfortunately the planes were
\nrepainted back to their old schemes in 2008 meaning that this awesome design doesn\u2019t exist anymore.”<\/p>\n

\"21\"<\/p>\n

“This one is for the lads! Back in 2009, supermodel Bar Rafaeli celebrated, landing on the cover of Sports Illustrated
\nannual swimsuit issue, by having herself painted onto a South West Airlines plane\u2026\u2026in nothing but her bikini. The plane
\ncarried the sexy image from New York to Las Vegas until the airline repainted the plane later on in the year.”<\/p>\n

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“In 2006, U.S Airways played homage to the Arizona Cardinals by painting it\u2019s trademark red bird logo along both sides
\nof the plane. Looks pretty cool huh?”<\/p>\n

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“The short lived airline, Western Pacific decided to paint one of their planes with The Simpsons in 1995 as part of the
\nmany advertisements that were painted on their planes. Together Bart, Homer, Lisa and Marge graced the sides
\nof the plane until the airline went bankrupt in 1998.”<\/p>\n

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“Germany held the World Cup in 2006 and Lufthansa decided to do their bit\u2026by simply painting a football onto the
\nnose of the plane.\u00a0Luftansa did this to 40 of its fleet.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Examples for advertising subsidized space exploration via:\u00a0http:\/\/list25.com\/25-cool-aircraft-paint-jobs\/ “Japanese airline, All Nippon Airways, has been decorating it\u2019s planes with the characters from Pokemon ever since 1998 to promote Japanese culture. Nicknamed the Pokemon Jets, the airline has six of them which are still in use today. It\u2019s not just the outside that is decorated though, even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising-subsidized-space-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6010"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6034,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010\/revisions\/6034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}