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SOUTHWEST AIRLINES

Ever since looking upon Southwest Airlines, I've been quite fascinated by its unique livery history. Fast forward to the current livery, Southwest's look never disappoints. Because of that, I applied the tricolor pattern from the "Heart" logo on the helmet, the sleeves, and the socks. While both jersey and pants colors are interchangeable, all-blue is the primary home uniform combination and all-white is the primary road combo.

Since the first two uniforms are already in "Canyon Blue" (which has been in use since 2001), it's just natural that the retro uniform pays tribute to Southwest's original "Desert Gold" livery. The helmet features the iconic diagonal orientation of the wordmark and its respective striping. Numbers all over the jersey receive the vintage shadow treatment, and red is what I chose for the color of the pants, due to the red belly on the airline's first-ever livery.

ROYAL BRUNEI AIRLINES

While I know the airline has done it for modernization purposes, I don't consider myself a fan of Royal Brunei's current look, considering how it looked like immediately before. But yeah, that wasn't a hurdle for me when I created the home and road uniform concepts for the airline.

The overall design revolves around the yellow parallelogram on the logo. From afar, it seems that both home and road uniforms look plain, but that's what I aimed for, especially with the simplistic overall look of Royal Brunei—white stripe on a yellow background, black stripe on a dark brown background (maybe anthracite or dark grey—you name it). The yellow jersey is designated as the primary (since it has been the traditional color choice of Brunei's national football team kits), while the dark brown/anthracite/dark grey one becomes the clash jersey.

Of course, with what I said earlier, I've shown some love on the previous livery, so I made it as my retro alternate uniform for the airline.

AIR CHINA

Honestly, I had some difficulty in designing a set for Air China, despite its simplistic livery that was inherited from its predecessor CAAC Airlines. Thus, I went with a straightforward approach by using the exact livery design from top to bottom.

White is my color choice for the primary uniform, with the blue one being designated as the clash jersey. Both are paired with grey pants to mimic the belly color of Air China's fleet. There's a specific reason why I chose red to be the number color, and that is to simulate what's on the empennage, where the airline logo is the only red element on the livery, aside from the Chinese flag.

Since the airline is China's flag carrier, I had to make an alternate uniform that really speaks of the Chinese culture. With that, the alternate uniform draws inspiration from the Red Phoenix livery, which relies heavily on red and gold. Except for the white helmet, this uniform is all-red from top to bottom. And if you look closer, the shade of red that's used on the helmet decals is darker in contrast to the usual red from the regular uniforms.

On 4/11/2024 at 9:18 AM, edjb93 said:

Thanks for the appreciation, @TheGiantsFan! I'll look onto your suggestions later on and think about those.

I have decided to retain what I have for Emirates, Delta, and JAL, after testing out larger helmet decals. I don't even wanna make the decals outrageously large like what's done for MOST college football teams nowadays... 

Regardless though, thanks for all the comments in this series so far. I fully appreciate it.

SHANGHAI AIRLINES

Even if it's under China Eastern, Shanghai Airlines still maintains it distinct look. The curves found on the livery are inspired by the crane that has been the airline's identifier from the beginning. This design pattern extends from the sleeves to the front of the jersey, while on the pants, it extends all the way to the back. Since the belly of the airline's current paint job is in grey, it's just right to have only one option for the pants.

It's quite difficult to find high-quality images of the airline's earliest livery, and the one I found is one of the best I can find. This retro livery doesn't get any simpler than that, so I decided to give the throwback uniform a Penn State treatment. The striping on the pants and the helmet are slightly wider compared to the one used by the Nittany Lions, then I colored the collar and the sleeve cuffs white, just like how Penn State football looked like in the 2000s.

SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES

SAS has looked even more simpler with its current livery—an evolution of the 1998 look. With that in mind, I also gave the home and road uniforms a simple look. To add a little bit of color, the minimalist banner made from the flags of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark is applied on the front of the jersey and the pants' side panels.

Instead of white, I instead used an extra-light shade of silver to be the road uniform color, with the SAS wordmark colored in a darker tone to mimic its application on the fuselage. On a blue background, however, the wordmark is colored in white. Both home and road jerseys feature blue sleeves to make it reminiscent of the paint job on the aircraft's empennage. On the back of the jersey, the airline's original emblem is added.

As a tribute to its founding membership in the Star Alliance, I went with the airline's livery from much of the 80s until 1998. During my childhood, this looks is what reminds me more about SAS. I initially wanted to apply the stripes on the helmet, below the SAS logo, but I thought it would be overkill, so I limited the stripes to the rest of the uniform except the helmet.

ROYAL AIR MAROC

Here we have the first entry from Africa in this series, and its current livery looks visually striking, compared to the ones that preceded it. I applied that very same theme, specifically on the shoulders and the ends of the pants.

The throwback uniform is very straightforward, but the "RAM" tail logo applied on the helmet is the star (no pun intended) of the show.

Thanks for the appreciation, @TheGiantsFan! I'll look onto your suggestions later on and think about those.

OMAN AIR

Oneworld's newest member airline is doing its best to become one of the Middle East's best, just by looking at its current livery. Though the design features lots of curves, I went with a traditional straight line striping for the home and road uniforms, as it provided a great opportunity for me to take advantage of the striping pattern being translated onto a football uniform.

Talking about the airline's old livery, I immediately thought that a New York Jets-esque uniform will suit. And so I did just that, making a white-on-white retro uniform with red helmet and socks.

IBERIA

From one Spanish-speaking country to another, we proceed to Iberia, in which the logo design itself is used as the striping all over the home and road uniforms. It's another straightforward concept since the livery that comes with the current logo is also such. I chose mono-color combos as the primary uniform combinations, but these can be interchanged as they please.

However, the current livery's predecessor is anything but, as I can compare it to the Saul Bass-designed United Airlines livery. It's unbelievable that Iberia's old livery lasted until 2013. Anyway, the striping extends all the way to the front of the jersey, with the iconic curvature being applied as well, instead of just having straight lines. On the pants, "Lineas Aereas de España" is located inside the red portion of the striping.

14 hours ago, Bomba Tomba said:

Flying Elvis' Mexican cousin?

More like an ancestor, since Flying Elvis came into existence in 1994, while the Aztec head logo, which has multiple iterations, was unveiled earlier.

AEROMÉXICO

The home and road uniforms here are based from the current livery, which features a touch of light blue that's prominent on the airline's regional brand. Both the shoulder yoke and the hem on the pants are in a contrasting color for each uniform variant to mimic the color separation between the tail and the entire fuselage.

Before navy blue and red, orange was the main color of Aeroméxico, and the color choice really screams the vibrancy of the 70s. For the retro alternate, I merged the two livery designs during the orange era: the one with a detailed Aztec logo and thinner cheatlines, and the other with thicker cheatlines. The striping on the pants and the sleeves were taken from a particular ticket jacket from the same era. On top of all of these, both the jersey and the pants are colored grey to mimic the bare metal fuselage utilized by the airline for a long time.

TURKISH AIRLINES

Despite having a new logo (not really new because the font for wordmark is the only significant change) since 2018, Turkish Airlines still uses the 2010 livery. In this series, though, I used both of them for the uniforms. Logos aside, the tulip alone is a nice touch. Both white and grey pants can be used on either red or white jerseys, similar to what I did with my United Airlines concept. For the sake of color balance, I used black for the numbers, NOB, and the airline's script logo.

The "pyjama" livery takes flight through the retro alternate uniform. For this one, the Turkish translation of the airline's name is featured on the front of the jersey, with the English version being used at the back bumper of the helmet.

3 hours ago, FCMacbeth said:

Yup, I predicted that it would come eventually as soon as you reached the low-budget airline section.

 

Though, I might ask just how different is it from AirAsia MY to AirAsia Phillippines.

I think that there's nothing different when it comes to service. So far, I had only one round-trip experience with PH AirAsia, and it's quite good.

I'll most likely go back to doing concepts for full-service carriers after this pair of LCCs, then it will take a while to tackle more of them. I haven't even covered any airline from Africa or South America, so stay tuned for the next ones! 

AIRASIA

This is a request by @FCMacbeth, along with Malaysia Airlines—which I already made. Before the whole AirAsia X deal is fully implemented, this is the perfect time to do an AirAsia concept, and since the airline has many subsidiaries across Asia—my home country Philippines included—I'll focus on the main brand from Malaysia.

For the home and road uniforms, I went with a New York Jets-styled design but "in steroids", because I based it from the airline's livery since 2012. You might wonder why I implied "in steroids". That's because the shoulder striping is enlarged, and the same jersey design can be found on the hem of the pants.

The alternate uniform takes us back to the 1990s, when AirAsia was a full-service airline owned by the Malaysian government. Before red took over, blue was the primary color used by the airline, and its corresponding livery back then did not scream "low-cost airline".

4 hours ago, Bomba Tomba said:

Well, that could be their way to force their opponents into wearing dark jerseys on the road for maximum contrast

 

Them in yellow vs. their in country rivals PAL in blue would look sick

 

Same with yellow vs. Thai's purple

 

Or yellow vs. Swiss red

I love that idea. 

5 hours ago, FCMacbeth said:

Oh, I can smell AirAsia down the horizon. Well, the Malaysia one that is.

You just read my mind! I'll be handling AirAsia next, even before the result of the AirAsia X reorganization comes. I just realized that today.

38 minutes ago, Bomba Tomba said:

This is unfortunately a no from me dawg

 

I do not consider yellow as a suitable color for a "dark" jersey

 

It belongs with the likes of white, cream and light gray as those that should remain as a "light" (or in a football context, "away") jersey

I understand your sentiment and I agree that yellow should be a "road" color for American football if there's no white jersey, but I'm basing the colors primarily from an airline's current livery. It just so happened that Cebu Pacific's paint job heavily uses yellow and white. Also, I considered the fact that the airline's flight attendants wear yellow polo shirts.

CEBU PACIFIC

The first low-cost carrier in this series, Cebu Pacific stands out for its vibrant livery, as well as the one that preceded it. I can still recall my not-so-great experience with this airline, but I'll leave it up to that.

Anyway, yellow is the primary color for both home and road uniforms, with lots of streaks and curves applied from top to bottom. I planned to have yellow and white socks, but for the sake of color balance, I went with blue socks. Think of it in the same situation as the Los Angeles Chargers.

For the throwback, I decided against an all-white uniform as a tribute to Cebu Pacific's original livery, since the first two uniforms already have a fair share of white. I went with blue jerseys and blue socks instead, to complement the white helmet and white pants. This is, in part, due to a former special livery with a Manila vibe.

SWISS INTERNATIONAL AIR LINES

Swiss has one of the most straightforward liveries among the world's airlines, as its primary design element is the cross from Switzerland's flag. That alone is sufficient enough for Swiss' home and road uniform concepts. Imagine a football version of the Detroit Red Wings' uniforms, but with white pants.

For the alternate uniform, it's just right to pay tribute to Swissair, and I went with the defunct carrier's second-to-last livery due to the black cheatlines that separated the white and bare-metal halves of the fuselage's paint job.

STARLUX AIRLINES

Taiwan's newest airline looked ultra elegant from the get-go, due to the colors that were chosen. I tried my best to give it justice with the uniform concepts I made.

Since Starlux is brand-spanking new—founded in 2018 and started operations in the worst time possible when COVID-19 was in its hard launch in 2020—there will be no throwback alternate and instead, I made a TRUE alternate uniform. All three colorways—white, anthracite, and gold—feature the same wavy design from the airline's livery, which is applied on the helmet and the sleeves.

CHINA EASTERN AIRLINES

While China Eastern's current livery has left nothing to be desired—joining the likes of Japan Airlines for having a plain all-white livery—it at least paid its dividends with an even distribution of red and blue all throughout the logos placed on the aircraft. That's the same theme I applied onto my home and road uniform concepts for the airline.

Yes, I know that the current livery doesn't have cheatlines, but I went with a red-and-blue striping applied on the jersey, the pants, and the socks. The white uniform will be worn primarily at home, with the blue uniform on the road. Now, why blue? Just like some of my concepts in this particular series, I based it from the airline's female flight attendant uniforms, which is also the reason behind the red belt on both home and road uniforms.

The alternate uniform in this concept set is taken from the airline's retro livery, which for some reason, includes gold striping. I chose red as the jersey color since it seemed to be the dominant color.

1 hour ago, Bomba Tomba said:

Hold up, they aren't called "Air Jordan"?

I see what you did there... 

Seriously speaking, the airline was formed by a royal decree, thus the "royal" moniker. 

ROYAL JORDANIAN AIRLINES

Royal Jordanian surely has a bold livery, and I'm even more amazed that the overall design has been used all the way back in the mid-80s! Honestly, I thought it was unveiled in the 90s or the 2000s. So much for that, I basically translated that livery into a football uniform for the home version, while in the corresponding white jersey, I left the sleeves as is, as a homage to the airline's Oneworld livery.

The "Alia" branding of Royal Jordanian is preserved with a retro livery painted on one of the airline's A321 aircraft. While the uniform I designed is pretty straightforward, I spiced it up a bit by pairing the white jersey with red pants instead of grey pants. The helmet features different decals on each side: the left side features the "Alia" name in Arabic, while the right side features the same name but in English.

ITA AIRWAYS

When I first saw the livery of Italy's new flag carrier, I thought it took a page from the country's national football team. This is necessary since the European Commission barred Italy from recycling the Alitalia brand, even if it's owned by the people behind ITA Airways.

So much for that, I went with a primary-clash-alternate designation for my 3 concept uniforms for the airline, starting with an all-blue uniform—an obvious homage to the Italian football team—but I did not make it blue from head to toe, due to the white engine nacelles. Both the helmet and the jersey feature a pattern of various shapes found on the tail. Next is an all-white uniform—even the helmet is also white—with the same theme as the blue uniform. This was done as a tribute to the airline's white liveries: the "Born in 2021", the "Born to be Sustainable", and the special half-blue, half-white livery.

While the Alitalia brand could not be used for now, the iconic brand remains alive in my alternate uniform. I specifically picked the 1969 version of the former Italian flag carrier's iconic livery, since it was the first iteration of what would become one of the signature looks in the skies. The cheatline design is placed in front of the jersey and on the pants' side panels, while a large version of Alitalia's tail logo adorns both sides of the helmet.

@TrueYankee26, thanks for indirectly suggesting ITA Airways! 

I'm actually targeting either a SkyTeam member airline or a non-alliance member as my next concept.