A small Santa with an Olympic logo on the belly was added to some Olympic fleet members for Christmas 2004. All aircraft had it on the front part except SX-BKB which had it aft of the wing.
It is unclear why this aircraft -the very first 727 to be delivered in Colombia- gained an all-white livery with thumbs up decals on the tail in late 2004... any piece of information most welcome.
Sun Microsystems was an American company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language. Altogether with the NDTV A320, this was India's first batch of logojets in late 2004.
Pokémon (also known as Pocket Monsters in Japan) is a franchise created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1995, and owned by Nintendo. The Flower Jumbo design is the winning design of a competition held by ANA on the occasion of the opening of Haneda Terminal 2 in December 2004. The work of 10 year-old Azumi Suzuda and her "Pokemon Flower Field" was chosen among 15,000 design of primary school students. The Flower Jumbo started operations on December 5, 2004 with a panoramic flight organised by the airline which had invited 250 children and their parents for a party in the new Terminal 2. Note both sides were also different.
New Delhi Television Limited is an Indian television media company founded in 1988. The company teamed up with low-fare newcomer Air Deccan in late 2004 and together with the Sun|Java ATR they were the first logojets to take to the skies in India.
One of three Jet2 737 wearing billboard titles advertising its main departure points in the UK. Flights from Manchester were launched in November 2004.
This exhibition took place the at Oca Museum in Sao Paulo in late 2004 and presented high-collections of the 20th century, featuring 26 foreign designers, mostly French couturiers or those they inspired.
First funny livery for Kulula, promoting CHOC, a charity raising funds for children with cancer. In 2009-2010 the aircraft had a football nose with small "Kulula loves soccer" titles.
This second batch of "aggressive" stickers was added in late 2004, targetting the 3 European majors which at the time of expensive oil added fuel surcharge in their fares.
This second batch of "aggressive" stickers was added in late 2004, targetting the 3 European majors which at the time of expensive oil added fuel surcharge in their fares.
H-E-B is an American supermarket chain based in San Antonio, Texas. The company was founded in 1905 and its name comes from founder Howard E. Butt and has over 300 stores, all of them located in Texas, which is also the home state of Southwest.
In late 2004 Britannia Airways AB/Britannia Nordic - while still trading simply as Britannia (yet with swedish-registered planes) - started flying partly with the titles of the tour operators it was flying for. Fritidsresor is the Swedish one which was at the origin of the split of the scheduled and charter operations of Transwede in 1996, the charter part trading under the Transwede Leisure name, which in turn quickly became Blue Scandinavia (the predecessor of Britannia Sweden), a period from which it still retains its 'Bluescan' radio callsign.
StarTour is the Norwegian tour operator which also became part of the TUI Group in the early 2000s; the airline is indeed also flying from Norway as well as Finland. The side on which the titles were applied varied as well; it is indicated here with the 'port side|starboard side' pattern, with FR for Fritidsresor and ST for StarTour.