The Museum of Flight has a page collecting dozens of airline logos, current and old. Fascinating diversity of designs. Above left, Executive Jet Aviation ; above right, Compagnie Corse Mediterianne. (via Colour Lovers, thanks Tara McGinley!)
Collection of airline logos
The Museum of Flight has a page collecting dozens of airline logos, current and old. Fascinating diversity of designs. Above left, Executive Jet Aviation ; above right, Compagnie Corse Mediterianne. (via Colour Lovers, thanks Tara McGinley!)
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I like Air New Zealand's best.
And I think if you are over 45 and live in the US, Pan Am's logo = world travel, jet-setting and adventure.
Compagnie Corse Méditerranée, in fact.
Compagnie Corse Méditerranée? Dang, I was thinking Air Amistad.
Why do you have to be over 45 to appreciate all that PanAm signifies? Then again, the one PanAm flight I took was near the end & pretty well stripped down.
I had a reservation for the first Pan-Am flight to the moon. Am I bitter? Hell, yes.
Why do you have to be over 45 to appreciate all that PanAm signifies?
I was estimating the company's reach. When I was young, Pan Am was the best for international travel. Not just good. The best, like Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods.
I think it is less prominent for younger people.
Not to mention the Blade Runner curse.
Goes to show that megacorporations are not as immortal as some would like. (Too bad GM, Chrysler, and Ford are bailed out by the government rather than going through bankruptcy so that new better car companies can take their place and actually innovate.)
i love old corporate logo's. i saw a collection a few months ago i thought was even better but damned if i cant find the link.
heres a ton of old bank logos though. totally fascinating, imo:
http://www.buttoncrs.com/banklogos.htm
Too bad neither this article nor the Colour Lovers site bothers to either link to the original source or identify the airline that each logo belongs to. Here's the original MoF site: http://www.museumofflight.org/logos
I like the Air Pacific one the best
I worked in the engineering department at Hughes Aircraft. I found it very amusing, when handling vellum drawings, to observe the titleblock, which bore a company logo. It changed over the years, and older drawings had older planes in the logo. I kept hoping to find a biplane, or maybe the Spruce Goose.
The logo for Compagnie Corse Méditerranée is a pretty commonly-used symbol for Corsica as a whole, akshully -- so you see it regularly on bumper stickers and other souvenirs.
It's the head of a maure, which is a symbol of both Corsica and Sardinia, both having them in their flags.
A few years ago I found some vintage airline logo fabrics. I made a skirt of mostly defunct airlines.
Amistad jokes aside, the logo from the Corsican airline is from that country's flag, known as "a bandiera testa mora," or "the flag with the Moor's head."
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/fr-co.html
Compagnie Corse Méditerranée??
I had always thought it was the logo for one of the Corsican independence movement groups...
I'm currently creating a flight search website, and doing a lot of research of operational airlines. Of the ones I have checked, my favourite so far has to be Bahamas Air. It's crisp, clear, and if you're still not convinced, compare it to a map of the Bahamas.