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Just in time for Halloween, another zombie Pan Am is rising from the dead. The newest incarnation—the fifth—plans to start flying cargo flights to South America in 2011. The airline’s brand-new logo is not as iconic as the blue meatball designed by Edward L. Barnes in the 1950s.
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How will the merged United Airlines roll out its new brand? It’s starting with the in-flight safety video, now common to both United and Continental. The video features, to my mind, a particularly unfortunate application of Rhapsody in Blue.
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Still, the Branded Skies collection of wings pales in comparison to this: Dieter Kapsch has collected 1,760 spoons from 447 airlines.
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In celebration of the 250th pair of wings added to the Fly the Branded Skies collection, you can now see images of the cards they came on—at least for all the wings in the collection that have cards.
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How do you come back from a string of crashes and being banned from flying to Europe due to safety concerns? Shashank Nigam has a few ideas for Garuda Indonesia.
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Southwest Airlines is planning to go after the cancellation and change fees other airlines charge in an upcoming advertising campaign. Yet again, Southwest is hitting other carriers where it hurts: those fees brought in $1.2 billion in revenue for the U.S. airline industry in the first half of this year. (via Gadling)
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Shelby White traces the history of the Swissair logo. It’s always fascinating to see corporate design manuals, especially ones from the 1960s.
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If Virgin Atlantic were a Bond film, these would be its opening credits. Created for Virgin Atlantic by RKCR/Y&R.
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In spending more time on airlines recently, I’ve lost time to write about them. But Adweek’s Barbara Lippert doesn’t have that problem: this week she reviews Delta’s Keep Climbing campaign and gives it high marks.
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Ahh, the good old days when the seats were comfortable, airlines served wine on every flight, and stewardesses wore hard hats… This 1973 promotional film for North Central Airlines features a very peppy and repetitive jingle.