21 Dec 03

Airline Logos

  • BOAC, British Overseas Airline Corporation, 1950s
  • Finnair, late 1950s
  • Boeing
  • Varig, 1980s
  • Vietnam Air
  • Pan Am
  • KLM
  • Lufthansa
  • LOT Polish Airlines
  • Condor
  • ANA, All Nippon Airways
  • Aeroflot
  • Delta, late 1950s
  • Cruzeiro
  • Pan Am, 1950s
  • Maersk Air
  • Finnair, early 1950s
  • Estonian Air
  • Finnair, 1990s
  • Syrian Airlines
  • Xiamen Airlines
  • Lloyd Aereo Boliviano
  • Turkmenistan Airlines
  • Rio-Sul, 1980s

These logos were downloaded from AeroSite Airline Logos, a collection of 1,500 airline logos from all around the world. The collection is alphabetically organized, and features both old and new logos.

Dream yourself away.

Note: All logos are trademarks of their respective owners.

7 Comments (skip to form)

  1. Mike

    What a fantastic resource for ummm….someone…

    Actually it's a great study in logo design. The predominant use of the blue spectrum, swept accents, circles or globe based insignia…

    Quite a lot of effort in making this collection too.

  2. adam bramwell

    Is it a coincidence that they're all in corporate blue I wonder?

  3. Lars Holst

    Mike, it's a great resource for anyone with an airline fetish!

    But yes, it's also valuable as a general study in logotypes. I'd say that the tricky thing with airline logos is to make them look like they actually belong to an airline and not a detergent brand or an advertising agency, or worse. At the same time, the logo should evoke a sense of reliability and safety, and, of course, hold aesthetic value. Lately, however, and much to my disappointment, there seems to have been a deviation from these design principles. Low-cost arlines make for particularly horrific examples of this.

    Adam, good question. I picked out the blue ones to match the colors of this weblog, but various shades of blue also seem to dominate the overall color spectrum. So no exceptions there, although some of my favorites do use red.

    Actually, you guys have inspired me to do a top ten list.

  4. Laureen Lohin

    I've started watching airplanes cross over my house and I would like like to learn about the aircraft. My big question is how can you tell what type of plane is it and what company is it ? How do I go about doing this ? Please pass on any info about this or what steps.

    Thank you,
    Laureen Lohin

  5. Lars Holst

    The suberb Airliners.net should be a good place to start. It has a searchable database of photos of virtually every commercial aircraft ever built. Some of the photos on my personal website are but a few examples of what you can find there (they're all copyrighted and used with permission from the photographers, in case anyone gets any ideas).

    If you want to take it a step further, then bona fide plane spotting is your deal. I haven't quite gotten that far myself though, and with the exception of European Plane Spotting World, I can't help you with any online resources for that.

  6. Peter Theoharis

    Wow, the site aerosite.net!! Thanks for the logos, Mike.

    My own site (www.euroskyways2000.com.gr) is full of airline photos and logos,…only right now, it's having a major reconstruction. Anyway, thanks dude! ;)

  7. Rolando Marrón Duque de Estrada

    Volé durante 43 años como piloto aviador, de ellos 35 en líneas aéreas: Cuba Aeropostal, Cubana de Aviación, Aerocaribben. Hace diez años pasé a retiro y me dedico a escribir historia de la aviación cubana, tema no explotado por acá y al que le he dedicado mucho tiempo desde hace 30 años. Me complace mucho conocer estas colecciones, verdaderos tesoros de la aviación mundial. Gracias.

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