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Continental introduces its first Boeing 777 Star Alliance logojet

Copyright Photo: GSR. N78017 approaches HKG for landing after being repainted.

Continental Airlines (Houston) has painted its first Boeing 777 in the Star Alliance color scheme. Boeing 777-224 ER N78017 (msn 31679) was painted at Hong Kong and went into revenue service between HKG and Newark as flight CO 98 yesterday (December 1).

ANA to introduce 1969 Boeing 767-300 retrojet

Copyright Photo: Christian Volpati.  Please click on photo for full view, information and other photos.

Copyright Photo: Christian Volpati. Please click on photo for full view, information and other photos.

ANA (All Nippon Airways) (Tokyo-Haneda) will soon be unveiling a 1969 retrojet on aย Boeing 767-300. It will enter service onย December 1, 2009, initially on the Tkoyo (Haneda)-Miyazakiย and Tokyo (Haneda)-Kagoshima routes. ANA plans to retainย this retrojet livery for four years. This “Mohican Blue” color scheme was introduced in 1969 with the first Boeing 737-200. The current two-tone blue color scheme was introduced in 1983 and is called “Triton Blue”.

In Japanese:
http://www.ana.co.jp/dom/promotion/mohican-jet/index.html