Star Alliance member Air New Zealand released this video showing the arrival of its latest 777 in it’s popular “All Blacks” livery in tribute to its national Rugby team. The airliner arrived in Auckland on January 12. It’s one of the boldest liveries that I’ve seen in a long time and looks absolutely spectacular in flight.
Here is the link to the New Zealand Herald article covering the event. There are some great photos in there!
The aircraft had drawn attention a few weeks ago when it first came out of the paint shop at the Boeing facilities in Washington. I wrote about it here.
Enjoy the video!
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Sorry I just got home from work! Here’s the photo I took at AKL on Dec 31, 2011: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KaTzU3PW-eY/TxDmXZaNPGI/AAAAAAAAC88/sDlDNmYy3sU/s1600/NZ_AB.jpg
I was in NZ over Christmas and saw one of their smaller aircraft (737 or A320) in the All Blacks livery at AKL! It definitely looked amazing. Gonna go dig up the photo I took!
If you want me to post the photo, please forward it!
Looks cool! Thanks for posting.