NZ Rugby World Cup livery

David Ramsay · #1 22nd September 2010, 03:08 PM

Air New Zealand today revealed the new livery design for the first aircraft in its new domestic jet fleet.

The new all black livery was unveiled in Sydney today by Air New Zealand CEO Rob Fyfe, in recognition of the airline's long time support of the nation's favourite game.

"In celebration of Air New Zealand's long running support of rugby in New Zealand, our first new A320 will arrive in January sporting a sleek black livery complete with silver fern motif and Koru on its tail," says Rob Fyfe.

Air New Zealand's sponsorship of the New Zealand Rugby Football union, including the All Blacks, enters its seventeenth year in 2011.

The first aircraft will be the only one in the fleet featuring the new all black livery.

"Air New Zealand is crazy about rugby and from February this distinctive new plane will be operating on our main domestic New Zealand routes, says Mr Fyfe.

The new domestic fleet of A320 aircraft, combined with Air New Zealand's new long-haul fleet of Boeing 777-300 aircraft, which begin arriving from the end of this year, will ensure the airline continues to have one of the youngest aircraft fleets in the world.

See the video here

Brian Wilkes · #2 22nd September 2010, 03:35 PM

Now watch out for Qantas's version of the Wallabies logo jet for next year!

Nathan Long · #3 22nd September 2010, 03:46 PM

If it follow the form of the respective rugby teams, no matter how hard they try, unfortunately it won't be as good as the Air NZ one.

Damian N · #4 22nd September 2010, 07:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian Wilkes

Now watch out for Qantas's version of the Wallabies logo jet for next year!

Can hardly wait for the decal!

Lee G · #5 22nd September 2010, 10:28 PM

Now there has to be a 400 due for a D check and a spraypaint somewhere in the Qantas fleet, you would think!

D Chan · #6 22nd September 2010, 11:09 PM

if they were going to take a video from Flight simulator X they couldve chose a much better A320 model...

Nathan Bartlett · #7 23rd September 2010, 03:39 PM

Nice! Can't wait either, gona look awesome!

Damian N · #8 24th September 2010, 01:42 PM

Where's the sharklets???????????

Torin Wilson · #9 24th September 2010, 07:42 PM

It's going to be ZK-OJP, one of the 2 ordered purely for domestic service that will not have the sharklets

matthew mcdonald · #10 6th October 2010, 08:48 PM

Sorry to bring this back up, but I was just searching through aircraft on order and according to this website Air New Zealand's only 2 A320's on order are ZK-OJQ and ZK-OAB completely skipping OJP. Can somebody please shed some light on this.

http://www.planespotters.net/Airline/Air-New-Zealand

Thanks