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[craneduitre]

Hi,

Looks like Air France will annonce in the next days a new livery.
Are the AS will be updated accordingly ?  

[thepilot]

craneduitre, on Jan 8 2009, 05:10 PM, said:

Hi,

Looks like Air France will annonce in the next days a new livery.
Are the AS will be updated accordingly ?  

Source?

[craneduitre]

http://www.aeroconta...elle~07634.html

[Ali Hoteit]

Unfortunately..they don't show us what it'll look like..I wonder how..the current livery lasted aloot of years

[James]

I have seen the first Air France A380 at the production line and the livery looks the usual one. Is it possible that they change livery and the first A380 will still have the old one?

[thepilot]

James, on Jan 9 2009, 11:03 AM, said:

I have seen the first Air France A380 at the production line and the livery looks the usual one. Is it possible that they change livery and the first A380 will still have the old one?

I've seen it, too and the livery is definitely the same.
I would expect that a possible new one is a little less white... since white is not exactly the color that looks good in dirty condition.

[Toma]

The AF A380 tail design is not a problem, they will repaint it later.
The new livery is very different from the old one as the article says. Can't wait !!!

[craneduitre]

it might look like this

[A32x Flier]

Craneduitre, if you're always giving French URL, nobody from the forum will understand what you mean. So please be careful about this in the future because we are only few french people compare the the rest of the AS community.

For the time being it is not planned to change current AFR livery even if there are some rumours on websites about that. The actual livery is lasting since 32 years now. If they modify livery it could be like this, very similir to cityjet one.
http://www.airliners...Avro/1449615/L/

AFR only re-painted their A320 tail-registered F-GFKJ
http://www.airliners...-211/1421768/L/
To become this, as it was in 1946 !
http://corporate.air...very/index.html

Additional info:

A320 Type -200 Model -211
Tail Ident F-GFKJ at delivery (same today)
Engines CFM56-5A1
First flight performed on 27 JUN 1989
Delivery done on 1st SEP 1989
As of today the aircraft has 42966 FH / 29515 FC

Concerning the A380, the aircraft has been put outside the production line last week. Only the tail is painted at this stage. Flight test program will start in coming weeks and final livery of this A380 will be the same than actual one.

[craneduitre]

Sorry, I gave what I found.
And so far this kind of news is related by french web sites, as french may be a little bit more concerned...
People can feel free to use an online translator (especialy for the second link, which is a picture).

[A32x Flier]

craneduitre, on Jan 9 2009, 02:48 PM, said:

Sorry, I gave what I found.
And so far this kind of news is related by french web sites, as french may be a little bit more concerned...
People can feel free to use an online translator (especialy for the second link, which is a picture).

I disagree, not only the french are traveling with AFR or interested in aeronautics filed. I guess if people were speaking russian or giving russian URL on that forum you would be frustrated not to understand the topic, and I bet you won't use a translator each time you want to understand a sentence because too boring. So, thinking to the other also contribute to a good spirit of the forum. Thanks for your understanding.

[craneduitre]

He asked me my source. I gave it to him.  
I always speak english here, and I reported the new in english, but a source is a source. If he is interested, he can investigate...

The news is not official, so only french specialized websites are reporting some parts of "info", because I as said it's concerning their national airline.
I'm sure everybody will report it over the world in all the laguages when it will be official, if it will...
I can't ask the journalist to write an english version of the article because it's boring for the non-french-speaking guys on the air simmer forum.  

Anyway, I'll try to be more careful next time

[thepilot]

I'm learning French, so understanding the text was not really a problem for me
And, as you say, there was no English source available.
Thanks anyway for the link!

[craneduitre]

Good luck with french, not easy stuff...

[Toma]

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For the time being it is not planned to change current AFR livery even if there are some rumours on websites about that

How can you say that ?
It's not a rumor I can tell you, but think what you want !  

[FrancoisH]

A32x Flier, on Jan 9 2009, 03:01 PM, said:

I disagree, not only the french are traveling with AFR or interested in aeronautics filed. I guess if people were speaking russian or giving russian URL on that forum you would be frustrated not to understand the topic, and I bet you won't use a translator each time you want to understand a sentence because too boring. So, thinking to the other also contribute to a good spirit of the forum. Thanks for your understanding.

When someone ask something like "sources", it is always better to give the source, even if it is written with a foreign language. I prefer the real source to any translation made by someone else. If I may understand this kind of remark from any english speaking people, I find that really surprising from a french men like you.

I do respect the fact we have to speak in english on these forums as a "common language" but if you have some link to give to any foreign website with some interesting news, it worth a try to give the link, if you do not forget to put a mention about it before your link.

About rumors, that is true these are still rumors but I think there might be some truth in this one.

Regards.

[velocity]

I saw the newe livery, and I have to say it`s stupid to change the current livery.

I saw the new paint on a 777-300ER, and in my opinion it looks ugly.

I think they should maintain the old livery.

[Toma]

Where did you see it ? If It's the one on dailymotion, It's a fake !!

[jaguado]

Not long ago there where rumours just like these about Iberia changing it's image and some designs came up (something along the lines of "clickair") but the public stepped in quickly saying that "if it isn't broken, why fix it?" in other words, if the actual livery is nice and pretty, and people obviously like it, what is the point of changing it?-

I think these rumours are AF's own doing to see public response. If they see people saying "it's about time" they'll change it, if they don't they'll leave it as it is.

[velocity]

yes on dailymotion, and I hope it`s a fake