This Qatar Airways retro livery might be one of my favorite ever…
Qatar Airways rolls out retro livery
A picture has emerged of a Qatar Airways Boeing 777-300ER sporting a special livery. The plane in question has the registration code A7-BAC, and it’s a roughly 13 year old aircraft that entered service in 2008.
The plane flew from Doha (DOH) to Toulouse (TLS) on January 26, 2022, and presumably that’s where the plane has been repainted over the past few weeks. Funny enough Toulouse is the home of Airbus, which Qatar Airways is currently in a big dispute with, so it’s funny to see a Boeing aircraft being repainted there.
The plane hasn’t yet reentered service, but it looks like at least the new paint job is done — I imagine other work may be done on the plane as well, since they often do multiple things at once. You can track the registration of this aircraft here.
This is Qatar Airways’ 25th anniversary livery
Based on what’s written on the engines, it would appear that this is a special 25th anniversary livery, as Qatar Airways is currently celebrating that milestone. Indeed, this is more of less Qatar Airways’ initial livery when the airline was founded. As you can see, there was a big focus on burgundy, and the oryx was featured on the tail.
In some ways, not all that much has changed — Qatar Airways jets still have the oryx on the tail, and burgundy is still prominently featured in the cabin and in all kinds of branding and marketing.
Us avgeeks usually care about liveries more than the average person. If you ask me, Qatar Airways does an amazing job with its livery — I think Qatar Airways’ current livery is just perfect. I also have to say that I really like the old livery as well, and I feel like it almost looks modern, and look it could work as a standard livery nowadays. To me it’s timeless.
Bottom line
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