Boeing 777-300ER Japan National Airlines

Gosh, it's been a while since I posted a livery, hasn't it?

Japan National Airlines is a full-service Japanese airline with its headquarters and main hub at Tokyo Narita International Airport. The airline operates a fleet of 194 aircraft to 99 destinations across Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania. JA445J is a 2007-build Boeing 777-300ER, built for and operated by JNA since its introduction, and painted into the current livery in 2013. This aircraft has served a long, reliable and uneventful life alongside its sister ships. The 777-300ER also worked alongside the 787 and A350 fleets to replace the 747-400 fleet, the last one of which left the JNA fleet in late 2019.

Rather unsurprisingly, my main inspirations for this were Japan Airlines and ANA, but I also tried quite hard to separate it from those airlines. My initial plan was to avoid using red and/or black altogether, and I was going to use a blue/green colour scheme for the livery. However, I was soon told that I shouldn't do this, and instead went for a red and silver colour scheme. Another one of my main goals was to avoid traditional Japanese symbols for the logo, such as the Japanese crane or the cherry blossom, and I believe I successfully achieved this.

My entry for the 2021 East Asia Design Challenge.

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