Eurowhite

Eurowhite is a term used in aviation to describe airline aircraft paint schemes which are predominantly white, usually adorned only with the airline's name along the forward fuselage, and its logo on the vertical tail.

Eurowhite became a trend in airline paint schemes during the 1980s, breaking with airlines' tradition of colourful and intricate liveries which were sometimes unique to each airplane, as was the case with American airline Braniff. As implied by its name, it is considered to have originated in Europe, where airlines commonly sold or leased aircraft. It was often too expensive to completely re-paint an airliner for just a few months or years of anticipated duty with an airline, resulting in many aircraft operating in complete or almost completely white paint schemes bearing only the titles of the current operator.

Airlines using Eurowhite

Examples of eurowhite include Air France, BRA Middle East Airlines, Carpatair, LOT Polish Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, Swiss, Turkish Airlines, Qantas, Garuda Indonesia, Philippine Airlines, Emirates Airline, SAS, TAROM, Grupo TACA, South African Airways and Air Malta. KLM sported a eurowhite scheme at the time they received their first 747s, but soon changed to their familiar sky-blue colours. Schemes commonly referred to as eurowhite are sometimes not completely white at all, as is the case with Lufthansa of Germany and Aerolineas Argentinas (blue tails and gray bellies) and British Airways (flaglike pattern on the tail and a dark blue belly). Iberia of Spain, Alitalia of Italy and Olympic Airlines of Greece sport predominantly white schemes which feature large solidly-coloured cheatlines, but are usually considered to be eurowhite.

Trend

Airlines which have recently switched to eurowhite schemes include AeroMexico (which formerly sported a bare-metal livery that had less paint weight and a lower fuel cost), TAP Portugal, Aerolineas Argentinas, Delta Air Lines, US Airways and United Airlines (although the 'eurowhiteness' of the latter two schemes is debatable).

Historically

In the United States, Hughes Air West, which suffered a fatal in-flight collision, changed its white color scheme to a high visibility yellow.Fact|date=November 2007Until its 2003 rebranding, Aeroflot used to have an almost Eurowhite livery, with navy blue cheatline and light gray belly.

See also

*Cheatline
*Logojet
*Retrojet