Flying the Hello Kitty skies (photo)

Almost as much fun as the "Unicorn Chaser" plane Boing Boing named for Virgin America airlines! A passenger looks out of an Airbus A330-300 aircraft of Taiwan's Eva Airlines, decorated with Hello Kitty motifs, in Taoyuan International Airport, northern Taiwan, April 30, 2012. Taiwan's second-largest carrier, Eva Airlines, and Japan's comic company, Sanrio, which owns the Hello Kitty brand, collaborated on the second generation Hello Kitty-themed aircraft which was launched on October 2011. There are currently three Hello Kitty-themed Airbus A330-300 aircrafts flying between cities such as Taipei, Fukuoka, Narita, Sapporo, Incheon, Hong Kong and Guam. More photos here, and we've previously blogged about the earlier generation of the Hello Kitty planes on Eva. (REUTERS/Pichi Chuang)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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nyrge

Gods preserve us. No kitty should have that many eyes.
http://twitter.com/The_Murmuration Jaime Starling

The Hello Kitty lounge at the Taipei airport is paradise for Sanrio fans and one of the few places you can lie down without being asked to sit up by airport staff.
MooseDesign

I really badly want the art repositioned so that the eyes line up with the windows so that when folks open and close their shades it changes teh Kitty’s disposition!
Clemmer

I recently snapped a few pics of her while flying out of Narita just less than 2 weeks ago:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30016707/hk-closed.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30016707/hk-open.jpg
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Looking at the front of that plane, I find myself singing, ♫ I’ve been through the desert on a cat with no mouth. ♫
http://grathio.com Steve Hoefer

I accidentally took this flight once.
Here’s a photo of the in-flight food. Notice the Kitty-shaped fish cake.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ookseer/3330244916/

(I think I kept the single serving of Kitty salt and pepper)
- http://aqfl.net Ant
  
  Accidently?
http://monolithcreative.com thekinginyellow

i had a layover at narita last week on my way to okpo and that’s the first thing that greeted me!

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/562109_3037399500057_1415072453_47191499_365532399_n.jpg