Of course it is still orange and white, but the new livery which easyJet have launched will appear on all of their new planes from April this year.
This is the first change to their look since 1998 and is designed to celebrate the airline’s twentieth year of flying. There have only been two styles in the past. In 1995 the design featured the booking number in giant lettering making it different from any other airline. The second design introduced in 1998 showed the web address reflecting the important move to online booking.
It takes about a week to repaint an aeroplane!
Peter Duffy, easyJet’s Commercial Director, commented:
“easyJet’s aircraft livery is one of the most recognised in aviation. As we approach our 20th birthday in November, we felt a refreshed livery would complement the many changes already made to easyJet including allocated seating, transparent prices, flexible tickets and our award winning mobile app.
“As you would expect from easyJet this is a low cost makeover – all our new planes will be painted with the new livery, but we’ll only re-paint the old ones as needed. It could take five years for all the fleet to sport the new paint job!
“Like easyJet itself, we wanted our livery to be as relevant for the next twenty years as it has been for the past twenty. The final design was selected by nearly 4000 staff and customers.”
easyJet has 197 Airbus A320 aircraft on order, the majority of which will replace older A319 aircraft currently in the fleet.
easyJet flies to 33 destinations from Edinburgh across the UK, Europe and to Iceland.
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