SpaceshipDC10 wrote:RalXWB wrote:On the other hand any livery looks better than Air Transat´s livery in the 80s.
You mean this, when they simply painted over AC's colors?
Yes and the one with a small red line under the blue...
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SpaceshipDC10 wrote:RalXWB wrote:On the other hand any livery looks better than Air Transat´s livery in the 80s.
You mean this, when they simply painted over AC's colors?
RalXWB wrote:Yes and the one with a small red line under the blue...
MesserJ wrote:I always thought it was kinda weird and tacky that "Air" and "transat" are in different fonts, but that's the only thing I would change.
SpaceshipDC10 wrote:RalXWB wrote:Yes and the one with a small red line under the blue...
It was already more refined, and perhaps dated from the early '90s. Then came the first livery with the star.
Jamie514 wrote:... The average traveller could care less about the fact that the airline is a unit of an integrated company or the corporate reasoning why the branding should not be seen as cheap and disjointed but rather a result of some sort of intelligent distinction. ...
Jawaiiansky66 wrote:The new livery is not bad and better than they have ever had before. I wish they would put their full name on the aircraft body...Air Trans Atlantique. Sounds better than just Air Transat...
CRMCPILOT31 wrote:color to the engines please....or at least place airtransat.com something.......I wonder how much they are paying people for these designs....... honestly I mean ...just white and a stripe of color at the end and done.........so boring....airlines should just stop their "rebranding" if they are going to keep this up.... learn from AC and AA.......
Jawaiiansky66 wrote:The new livery is not bad and better than they have ever had before. I wish they would put their full name on the aircraft body...Air Trans Atlantique. Sounds better than just Air Transat...
Jawaiiansky66 wrote:The new livery is not bad and better than they have ever had before. I wish they would put their full name on the aircraft body...Air Trans Atlantique. Sounds better than just Air Transat...
ryan78 wrote:
It was painted in GIG along with a C-Check.
leleko747 wrote:It actually left GIG with an odd, interim scheme:
SpaceshipDC10 wrote:Jawaiiansky66 wrote:The new livery is not bad and better than they have ever had before. I wish they would put their full name on the aircraft body...Air Trans Atlantique. Sounds better than just Air Transat...
How do you know the transat part of the name means trans-atlantic? Transat is the French word for deckchair, that you can find on beaches, and cruise ships too.
From one of my usual source, a video. By comparison to the drawings or indoor pictures, I tend to like the look of it.
https://youtu.be/RdxgzkW5QlQ
yycdel wrote:CRMCPILOT31 wrote:color to the engines please....or at least place airtransat.com something.......I wonder how much they are paying people for these designs....... honestly I mean ...just white and a stripe of color at the end and done.........so boring....airlines should just stop their "rebranding" if they are going to keep this up.... learn from AC and AA.......
it doe say airtransat on the engines, but on the inside side, so it is visible from the cabin only
Jawaiiansky66 wrote:I have a friend who worked in the head office in Montreal when the airline was formed. He said the airline's official original name was AIR TRANS ATLANTIQUE. It was shortened to AIR TRANSAT for ease of use in Canada's bilingual market. This is very much like how Canadian Pacific Airlines became CP AIR and Trans Canada Airlines became AIR CANADA. You didn't have to have a separate name in each language. This saved money in printing costs on marketing and other airline products.
leleko747 wrote:ryan78 wrote:
It was painted in GIG along with a C-Check.
It actually left GIG with an odd, interim scheme:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BbP3LJNjUNb ... =gigaovivo
https://www.instagram.com/p/BbModSRD6Km/
Jawaiiansky66 wrote:I have a friend who worked in the head office in Montreal when the airline was formed. He said the airline's official original name was AIR TRANS ATLANTIQUE. It was shortened to AIR TRANSAT for ease of use in Canada's bilingual market. This is very much like how Canadian Pacific Airlines became CP AIR and Trans Canada Airlines became AIR CANADA. You didn't have to have a separate name in each language. This saved money in printing costs on marketing and other airline products.
Jawaiiansky66 wrote:I have a friend who worked in the head office in Montreal when the airline was formed. He said the airline's official original name was AIR TRANS ATLANTIQUE. It was shortened to AIR TRANSAT for ease of use in Canada's bilingual market. This is very much like how Canadian Pacific Airlines became CP AIR and Trans Canada Airlines became AIR CANADA. You didn't have to have a separate name in each language. This saved money in printing costs on marketing and other airline products.
ryan78 wrote:There was nothing ever official about the name Air Trans Atlantique. Nowhere through-out the company's history do they cite that, that was the original name, It's been Air Transat since the inception of the airline. Now unofficially, maybe the founders in Quebec started with the idea of calling it that but there is no definitive proof or official documents stating otherwise. The name Air Trans Atlantique has never been registered in the Transport Canada Air Operators Certificate database.
Jawaiiansky66 wrote:Interesting...I know of 4 senior AIR TRANSAT pilots who confirm the original AIR TRANS ATLANTIQUE name. Personally, i think it sounds much nicer.
Jamie514 wrote:Loved that first star livery! There. Now the thread has the entire TS L1011 era.
JannEejit wrote:Jawaiiansky66 wrote:Interesting...I know of 4 senior AIR TRANSAT pilots who confirm the original AIR TRANS ATLANTIQUE name. Personally, i think it sounds much nicer.
I like the sound of that just wondering if it clashed with the at the time still in operation, UK operator 'Air Atlantique' famous for it's retro propliner fleet well into the 2000's ?
Cunard wrote:JannEejit wrote:Jawaiiansky66 wrote:Interesting...I know of 4 senior AIR TRANSAT pilots who confirm the original AIR TRANS ATLANTIQUE name. Personally, i think it sounds much nicer.
I like the sound of that just wondering if it clashed with the at the time still in operation, UK operator 'Air Atlantique' famous for it's retro propliner fleet well into the 2000's ?
Even if the Air Trans Atlantique name was ever considered I don't think anyone would have considered it a clash with an irrelevant British airline flying ancient DAKS, etc from a little known airport at Coventry -:)
AIRTRANSAT767 wrote:Do you think it's just the A330s that will be repainted? The whole fleet?
Cunard wrote:I can't imagine that there could be any intellectual properties or copyrights regarding the word 'Atlantique' let alone Air or Trans.
AIRTRANSAT767 wrote:Me too I'll find it strange that Air Transat repaints the A310s? Because it will be replaced completely by 2 years or 3 years ago? It costs $$ for nothing in my opinion. I know that he will receive A320 from this year thanks to Thomas Cook for 7 years !! Will they too be repainted just like the B737s? that remains to be seen.
JannEejit wrote:Cunard wrote:I can't imagine that there could be any intellectual properties or copyrights regarding the word 'Atlantique' let alone Air or Trans.
So essentially what you're suggesting is Air Transat could have used 'Atlantique' in their operational name if they wanted to without fear of litigation from another airline using 'Atlantique' in their name because they were deemed to be "irrelevant" and 'operated from a little heard of airfield' ?
Cunard wrote:JannEejit wrote:Cunard wrote:I can't imagine that there could be any intellectual properties or copyrights regarding the word 'Atlantique' let alone Air or Trans.
So essentially what you're suggesting is Air Transat could have used 'Atlantique' in their operational name if they wanted to without fear of litigation from another airline using 'Atlantique' in their name because they were deemed to be "irrelevant" and 'operated from a little heard of airfield' ?
No what I am saying is how can anyone hold any legal rights to the term 'Atlantique' it is the French name for Transatlantic no one person or company can claim legal rights over the use of that name and the same could be said for both Air and Trans so I honestly don't think that Air Atlantique would have had and legal rights if the airline was actually called Air Trans Atlantique, there are lots of similar named companies around the world with very similar names.
I'm calling Air Atlantique from Coventry irrelevant because in the grand scale of things they are, it's not as if they are or were even a large airline flying with a modern fleet on scheduled services across Europe and the over the Atlantic so yes in this context they are an irrelevant little airline, you've got to admit that surely as I don't understand why your getting all worked up regarding my comments.
BTW I am very familiar with Air Atlantique having been on one of their old DC3s when I was a 'wee' spotter!
Cunard wrote:JannEejit wrote:Cunard wrote:I can't imagine that there could be any intellectual properties or copyrights regarding the word 'Atlantique' let alone Air or Trans.
So essentially what you're suggesting is Air Transat could have used 'Atlantique' in their operational name if they wanted to without fear of litigation from another airline using 'Atlantique' in their name because they were deemed to be "irrelevant" and 'operated from a little heard of airfield' ?
No what I am saying is how can anyone hold any legal rights to the term 'Atlantique' it is the French name for Transatlantic no one person or company can claim legal rights over the use of that name and the same could be said for both Air and Trans so I honestly don't think that Air Atlantique would have had and legal rights if the airline was actually called Air Trans Atlantique, there are lots of similar named companies around the world with very similar names.
I'm calling Air Atlantique from Coventry irrelevant because in the grand scale of things they are, it's not as if they are or were even a large airline flying with a modern fleet on scheduled services across Europe and the over the Atlantic so yes in this context they are an irrelevant little airline, you've got to admit that surely as I don't understand why your getting all worked up regarding my comments.
BTW I am very familiar with Air Atlantique having been on one of their old DC3s when I was a 'wee' spotter!
SpaceshipDC10 wrote:I fear they'll drop the starfish from the tail, once again.