First China Southern Airbus A380-800 in Full Livery

Read the forum code of contact

Member for

14 years 7 months

Posts: 116

Hey All,

Just seen that Airbus have painted the first China Southern A380 in full colours. Here is a link to the pictures:

http://a380production.com/2011/06/31fs/

Probably my least favourite livery on the A380 :/ your thoughts ?

Joe

Original post

Member for

20 years 8 months

Posts: 2,623

My thoughts? I absolutely LOVE the China Southern Livery. It looks great on the 380 too.

Member for

14 years

Posts: 949

It doesn't sit too well on the A380. The cheat-lines are too big, or the lettering is too small. Or both!

Member for

24 years 3 months

Posts: 7,536

This livery looks stunning on the 777....but the 380, not so much.

Member for

19 years 6 months

Posts: 997

The A380 is one of the ugliest aircraft in the sky today. This livery is dull to start with, so applying it to such an ugly canvas was never going to produce a master piece.

Rgds Cking

Member for

16 years 1 month

Posts: 1,059

Beauty, or a lack of it, is obviously in the eye of the beholder. I think the A380 is a very attractive aircraft in an imposing and blocky way - certainly much more so than the B747-8, which looks too much like a 1969 rehash to me (just talking about appearance here - the B747-8 is, in all other regards, a fabulous aircraft).
As for the livery, I'm not sure it does the A380 many favours.

Member for

12 years 10 months

Posts: 240

I really like the new livery.

Member for

16 years 1 month

Posts: 3,442

Shamu's stunt double

Member for

13 years 7 months

Posts: 819

Eh ? China Southern livery is beautiful. Some of my favourite photos I've taken are of China Southern stuff....

Tokyo Narita...
http://garyculpan.smugmug.com/Airplanes/Aeroprints-Japan-and-Korea/i-B7x9Rrq/0/XL/B-2055-China-Southern-B777-200-XL.jpg

Nagoya...
http://garyculpan.smugmug.com/Airplanes/Aeroprints-Japan-and-Korea/i-mdBzgXT/0/XL/B-6042-China-Southern-A319-XL.jpg

Seoul...
http://garyculpan.smugmug.com/Airplanes/Aeroprints-Japan-and-Korea/i-pmHXFgx/0/XL/B-6686-China-Southern-A321-XL.jpg

Nagoya again...
http://garyculpan.smugmug.com/Airplanes/Aeroprints-Japan-and-Korea/i-VDBZ9j9/0/XL/B-2266-China-Southern-MD-90-XL.jpg

An extremely photogenic airline imho.

Member for

20 years 6 months

Posts: 10,625

Looks very fat and ungainly.
The China Southern livery was designed for long thin fuselages.

The cheat lines are far, far too big.