New look for easyJet

easyJet, now the UK’s largest airline, has launched a new aircraft livery – the first change to the look of the airline’s iconic white and orange fleet since easyJet.com replaced the call centre telephone number on the fuselage in 1998.

The airline currently has a fleet of 226 aircraft – a mixture of A319s and A320s.  The new livery will feature on all new easyJet aircraft deliveries from April 2015.  The airline has 197 Airbus A320 aircraft on order, the majority of which will replace older A319 aircraft currently in the fleet.

In addition, younger planes in the fleet will have the new styling applied when they ‎are scheduled to be repainted, typically every six years.  Taken together this means 29 aircraft will be flying with the new look by the end of 2015 and 50% of the fleet will sport the new livery by the end of 2017.

It takes around seven days on average to repaint an aircraft.   www.easyjet.com

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