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Brussels Airlines “Atomium” livery

(Courtesy Visit Brussels) Brussels Airlines’ newest icon plane honors the Atomium Designed and built for the Brussels World’s Fair in 1958 and created to honor the metals industry and the atomic era, the futuristic-looking Atomium monument is still around. The structure wasn’t supposed to last beyond the fair’s run, but today it is a tourist […]

Icelandair’s cool new glacier themed airplane

Icelandair has a cool, new glacier themed plane named after the Vatnajokull glacier, which is home to three active volcanoes. To celebrate, the airline took the plane for a special flight over the glacier it was named for. I got to ride along as a guest and snap photos of all the glacier themed items inside - and out.

Virgin America celebrate SF Giants

Virgin America has put a decal of SF Giants pitcher Sergio Romo on the side of one of its planes.

Win a plane with the new Air New Zealand livery

Win a plane with the new Air New Zealand livery

Hello Kitty plane coming to U.S.

Good news for Hello Kitty fans! Eva Air is bringing its first long-range Hello Kitty-themed jet to Los Angeles International Airport next week and, like the other Hello Kitty-themed planes the airline flies in Asia, this Boeing 777-300 ER plane will be painted with its own Hello Kitty design. Inside the plane there will be […]

Brussels Airlines “Atomium” livery

(Courtesy Visit Brussels) Brussels Airlines’ newest icon plane honors the Atomium Designed and built for the Brussels World’s Fair in 1958 and created to honor the metals industry and the atomic era, the futuristic-looking Atomium monument is still around. The structure wasn’t supposed to last beyond the fair’s run, but today it is a tourist […]

Icelandair’s cool new glacier themed airplane

Icelandair has a cool, new glacier themed plane named after the Vatnajokull glacier, which is home to three active volcanoes. To celebrate, the airline took the plane for a special flight over the glacier it was named for. I got to ride along as a guest and snap photos of all the glacier themed items inside - and out.

Virgin America celebrate SF Giants

Virgin America has put a decal of SF Giants pitcher Sergio Romo on the side of one of its planes.

Win a plane with the new Air New Zealand livery

Win a plane with the new Air New Zealand livery

Hello Kitty plane coming to U.S.

Good news for Hello Kitty fans! Eva Air is bringing its first long-range Hello Kitty-themed jet to Los Angeles International Airport next week and, like the other Hello Kitty-themed planes the airline flies in Asia, this Boeing 777-300 ER plane will be painted with its own Hello Kitty design. Inside the plane there will be […]

Finnair “forest dwellers” livery by Marimekko

Finnish airline Finnair and Marimekko, the Finnish design and fashion house known for bright colors and patterns, make a lovely couple. Last October, the two companies got together to paint a plane in Marimekko’s Unikko (poppy) print. Next week another Marimekko-themed plane will take to the sky with this Finnish Airbus 300 adorned with a […]

Alaska Airlines’ paint the plane contest

Alaska Airlines is having a Paint the Plane contest. The airline has decided to paint a 737 with a Hawaiian theme and asked Hawaii schoolchildren to submit their ideas. These three designs have been chosen as finalists and Hawaiian residents are being asked to vote for a winner. The winning design will get painted on […]

World’s largest salmon lands in Anchorage

This is just plane fun. On Thursday, Alaska Airlines unveiled the world’s largest salmon: a 91,000 pound, 129-foot long fish-themed Boeing 737-800 at a ceremony in Anchorage. The new “Salmon-Thirty-Salmon II” is almost identical to an earlier version of the paint scheme the airline used on a 737-400 in 2005. (That plane was re-painted with […]