Super-stripey! Is this the wildest airline livery?

An international airline is adorning its planes in stripes in five colours, “inspired by parasols, bath towels and beach chairs”.
Long-established German leisure carrier Condor has become the world’s stripiest airline.
“Our new trademark are stripes,” confirms Condor’s chief executive, Ralf Teckentrup.
As well as the airline’s fleet, crew uniforms, accessories such as neckerchiefs, ties and pins will sport the new design.
The new look was unveiled in Toulouse a day or two ago, painted on Condor’s first A330neo, to be delivered to the airline later this year.
The first Condor aircraft bearing the new livery (with yellow stripes) flew to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands yesterday. Six planes in the new colours will fly to Mallorca, Greece, the Canary Islands and Egypt this northern summer season.
Teckentrub says the colours stand for diversity.

Below: Condor’s first A330neo in the new striped look emerges from hangar in Toulouse

 
“Condor has undergone a transformation over the past two and a half years: from a subsidiary of a vertically integrated travel group [Thomas Cook] to an independent airline that looks back proudly on its history and tradition, while at the same time embarking on the path to the future.
“We want to express this unmistakably through our corporate identity: Condor is vacation and Condor is unmistakable – like our new design, with which we are now launching into the future.”
The new brand identity was conceived and created under the supervision of Remo Masala, owner of the creative agency vision alphabet in Berlin.

“Revising Condor’s brand identity with its long tradition is a delicate interplay based on respect for its origins and requirements for the future,” Masala commented.
“Our goal was to endow Condor with a special visual independence, the rationale of which is united in Condor’s brand essence: the invention of the vacation flight, and the effective vacation code, the stripes of summer, joy and freedom.”
The corporate identity’s lead colours are yellow and blue, complemented by the contrasting colour grey. The Condor signet, the condor in a circle (dreamed up by one of Germany’s most influential designers, Otl Aicher) has been given a facelift, with finer and more dynamic lines. It is displayed on the tailfin of each aircraft.

Written by Peter Needham