The logo is used to identify any brand and when we think of it from an Airline perspective Airline Logos are visuals of branding. These brandings are useful and inspiring to identify each Airline just by looking at the logo. A lot of peoples are enjoying quiz games that allow users to guess the correct Airline logo and award points.
In this article, I am going to enlisting Airline logos of 37 most popular airlines around the world. I am not creating some random list of logos without any explanation; you can find details of that logo just beneath the logo image. Airline place logo usually on tail few of them paint the complete body.
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37 Most Popular Airline Logos of the World
1. Qatar Airways
Designed in 2006, this logo of Qatar Airways features a burgundy oryx on a grey background. Oryx is the national animal of Qatar, and its color in the logo resembles the color of Qatar’s flag. The handle of the airline is written in English, while the Arabic letters spell out the word “Al Qataria.”
2. Lufthansa
The first logo of Lufthansa airline was designe in 1954, and later it was redesigned in 2018. This logo looks quite similar to the old one and new quality to sharpen their impact on the industry. The airline iconic ‘flying crane’ symbol and text was changed to slimmer and fit the modern era.
3. EgyptAir
EgyptAir’s logo provides the feel of old Egyptian ages that draws an image of Horus or slightly his head. It has a man’s body side by falcon’s head. Horus is their god of the sun or also known as “Skygod,” so makes sense, it says part of an airline logo. EgyptAir started using the logo in July 2008.
4. Japan Airlines
Jerry Huff designed Japan Airlines (JAL) logo back in 1958. It is called as “tsurumaru” also known as “crane circle,” that represents a Japanese crane with wings that are extended. The red color of the logo shows happiness. The idea behind the logo came from Japanese tradition to view crane as a symbol of long life in prosperous and better health.
5. SriLankan Airlines
SriLankan Airlines logo feature a stylized and colorful peacock along with elegant typeface. It reveals as a part of a major rebranding project in 1999. According to Sri Lankan folk tales and a flying machine similar to a peacock. It was called Dandu Monara Yanthra, this mythical creature inspired airline logo. However, another realistic explanation would be the fact that peacocks are precious and Sri Lanka’s native species.
6. Emirates
Negus & Negus Associates created a logo of Emirates in 1985; it was pure red on white logo along with intricate Arabic lettering. The company’s name is written in English below the Emirates logo. Red color shows leadership, passion, and self-confidence along with white stands for elegance, nobility, and purity.
7. Air Canada
A combination of red and white, Air Canada’s logo presented in October 2004. FutureBrand Worldwide designed it, and contain encircled maple leaf and recognizable as national symbol Canada.
8. Hawaiian Airlines
Hawaiian Airlines is unique on this because it features person instead of an animal or an abstract plane. It was slightly redesigne from an original version that was created by Lindon Leader in 2001. The logo still depicts “Island girl” Pualani with a gradient background. The gradient background feels greats and airline also modified the font for a premium new look.
9. Thai Airways
Interbrand created the Thai Airways logo and presented in April 2005. It highlights a picturesque fabrication, in which the pink part depicts a magnolia bloom. The logo obtained some unwanted media attention in September 2013, when after a runway collision in Bangkok the airport operators painted over the logo on a crippled plane to guard the status of Thai Airways.
10. American Airlines
The new American Airlines logo was unveiled in January 2013 and created by FutureBrand. It’s an idea of a flying eagle in common American colors – red, blue and white. The logo was entitled the “Flight Symbol,” and it includes the components from previous versions: an eagle, a star and the letter “A.” Test yourself and try to see them all.
11. Air Asia
Air Asia’s logo is a simple but eye-catching red badge with white letters. Start Creative created it. Air Asia made a slightly ill-advised (albeit temporary) difference to its logo in the wake of the flight disappearance in December 2014. They replaced the logo on their Facebook page to grey, which was poorly accepted by their social media viewers who interpreted it as a sign of tragedy.
12. Air India
Air India’s logo depicts a red flying swan with the wheel of Konark sun temple coated in orange on the swan’s spread-out wing. The colors mean vigor and progress, and the Konark wheel is considered to be from the chariot of the sun god. DMA Branding designed the logo in 2007.
Apart from the logo, the Air India also has a talisman called the Maharajah, which was conceived by Bobby Kooka and Umesh Rao in 1946 and newly modified to look less classical and more modern and hipster-ish.
13. Ethiopian
The Ethiopian Airlines had had this logo since the branding campaign called “Vision 2010” when they also opened the new motto: “The New Spirit of Africa.” The emblem includes English and Amharic text, and the color scheme (red, green, yellow) resembles the colors of the flag of Ethiopia.
14. Cathay Dragon
Cathay Dragon’s logo, as you can see, looks like to Cathay Pacific’s logo. Not Similar to Cathay Pacific’s logo, which is blue, Cathay Dragon has a red logo. Branding agency called Landor Associate created it, and it features the same “brushing” symbol that helps the wing of a bird. Cathay Dragon was earlier known as Dragonair, and its logo starred a red dragon.
15. Korean Air
The unenlightened would say that Korean Air’s logo looks like the Pepsi logo. However, its influence is purely conventional and much older than the USA itself, let alone Pepsi. The representative in the logo is called Taegeuk, and it attains for the “ultimate reality from which everything is derived.” It’s also a section of the South Korean flag. Korean Air’s logo was designed in 1984.
16. Swiss
Swiss International Air Lines, also recognized as just “SWISS,” has a small logo designed by Nose Design in 2011. It highlights a white cross on a red background, which is definitely what the Swiss national flag seems. The logo uses the Univers 65 Bold font issued by Linotype.
17. Air China
Air China’s logo includes the image of a phoenix drawn to follow the acronym “VIP.” Han Meilin designed it in 1988, and Dongdao Design made the current logo in 2007. The logo is full of metaphor, with the phoenix standing for luck, beauty, harmony and happiness, and the red color symbolizing the spirit and passion of the airline’s workers. In 2011 the logo on the “Visual Expression Design” award at the Beijing Design Week.
18. Aer Lingus
Aer Lingus is an Irish airline company with a logo that dates back to 1938 during Robert Logan designed the unique shamrock symbol. Shamrock (young clover) is usually considered to be the Irish national symbol, and it’s connected to the legend of Saint Patrick who used a clover to explain the Holy Trinity to the non-Christian Irish people. The current logo of Aer Lingus moved created in 1996, and because of its slanted look, it’s often called “The Drunken Shamrock,” which requests the Irish drinking stereotype.
19. Iberia
Iberia prepared a new logo in 2013 when Interbrand redesigned the old one and interjected a custom typeface. They used red and yellow, which do the colors of the Spanish flag, to carry the energy of the Spanish character. The new logoa advertised on social media with the hashtags #NewIberia and #NeuvalIberia.
20. Mexicana
The logo of Mexicana was created by a Danish agency called Design: Success in 2008. The blue symbol depicts an eagle and shows stability and flexibility. The typeface is a mixture of uppercase and lowercase letters, which provides the logo an eye-catching appearance.
21. Ryanair
Ryanair’s logo records back to 1987. After some modifications over the years, today it features a yellow symbol and bold, white letters. The symbol is a blend of an angel and a harp, which is one of the old Irish instruments and an essential part of the culture.
22. Turkish Airlines
Turkish Airlines launched this logo in 2010 as a part of a significant company redesign directed by Priestmangoode. The logo is simple and compelling, and it mixes red, white and blue for a very professional look.
23. British Airways
British Airways still holds the famous “Speedmarque” logo which was created by Newell & Sorrell in 1997 and motivated by the old “Speedbird” symbol used by British air forces before World War II. The logo includes the airline company name printed in blue letters and a red- and blue-colored ribbon shape beyond them.
24. Aeromexico
The AeroMexico logo was designe in 1994. It represents the head of an Aztec eagle warrior, also called cuāuhtli. In the Aztec society, eagles were suppose symbols of the Sun, and eagle warriors were amongst the most honored and fearsome members of the army. The airlines say that the ancient civilization of Mexico inspires the Eagle Knight emblem in their logo.
25. Delta Airlines
The Delta Airlines logo, also identified as “the widget logo,” was created by Lippincott Mercer and preceded in April 2007. It’s a red triangle that summons the Greek letter “D” (“delta”) and while simple, it looks three-dimensional recognition to smart positioning and shading of its elements.
26. Jet Airways
Jet Airways’ logo is named the “Flying Sun,” and K. V. Sridhar created it in 1992. It depicts an airplane’s tail leaving speed lines with the Sun in the background. The first time this logo was designed on an aircraft, a mistake made, and the logo was change on the tail.
27. Qantas
Qantas practices a kangaroo symbol that was motivated by the Australian one-penny coin. It first surfaced in January 1947. The modern version of the logo, also called “The Flying Kangaroo,” was designed by Hans Hulsbosch in July 2007.
28. Southwest
Southwest Airlines’ logo is still fresh – the rebranding was complete in September 2014, and the logo was produce in cooperation with GSD&M, Lippincott, VML, Razorfish, and Camelot Communications. It utilizes a custom font called “Southwest Sans,” designed by Monotype. The new logo emphasizes the classical heart symbol that was use in old Southwest logos. However, now it’s more bright and modern with blue, red and bright orange strips.
29. US Airways
Luxon Carrá and Deskey Associates designed the logo for US Airways, and in 2005 the company used grey as their representative color. The logo is a monochrome representation of the US national flag.
30. Aerolineas Argentinas
Another famous airline logo on this list is yet another to rely on a bird to describe the idea of flight. Aerolineas Argentinas has possessed this logo since June 2010, and FutureBrand designed it. It uses the Neo Sans typeface, and the stylized bird is a condor; a bird typically found in Argentina. The blue color is implicative of the Argentinian flag.
31. Singapore Airlines
The Singapore Airline’s logo represents a bird that’s spurred by a silver kris, a dagger from Southeast Asia prominently highlighted in the region’s myth and folklore. The logo is supposed to be designed by a US-based insignia company, and it was chosen from 200 proposals during SQ’s early days.
32. Malaysian Airlines
The Malaysian Airlines, known initially as Malaysia Airline System, changed its logo in 2013. The red-and-blue Kelantan kite, which was quickly remove in 2012, returned in 2013 to mark the airline’s record into the Oneworld airline company. If you look closely, the words ‘Malaysia’ and ‘airlines’ are written in a similar font as that found in Singapore Airlines’ logo.
33. PIA
The redesigned logo of Pakistan International Airlines PIA announces in April 2018. “The power of attitude and altitude come together”, in PIA’s Brand Story.
34. IranAir
After the Iran National Airline recorded as a national company (and the name transferred to IranAir), a contest was announced in Kayhan and Ettelaat newspapers in 1961 in search of a new logo. The logo which is currently being utilized by the airline was created by a young Iranian who won the competition. He took motivation of Homa, the Persian mythological griffin.
35. Garuda Indonesia
Garuda Indonesia’s logo hasn’t improved in years. Much like a lot of other airlines in the list, Garuda Indonesia has also appointed a flying object (a bird, in this case) as its subject. Despite Ga lot of tinkering, the logo itself has endured virtually unchanged. The current design, in my opinion, looks a lot cleaner and has a stylish look.
36. Air New Zealand
The Air New Zealand’s logo is the Māori symbol for a ‘Koru’ that means new life, growth and strength, and peace. The symbol of ‘Koru’ is an essential part of Māori art, carving, and tattoos.
37. PNG Air
The last airline in the list has the distinctive logo of them all. It’s based in New Guinea, a large island from the mainland of Australia. The logo was introduced in 2015 when the brand began taking off (quite literally!). The logo is every depiction of old patterns that were created to reflect the nation’s diversity. I love how the old icons from around the country were incorporated to put together an unusual and striking design.
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