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Korea Line | 1990s



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Korea Line | 1990s

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Airline - Korea Line
Aircraft - Airbus A330-300 | HL2857
Delivered to Korea Line, 1996
Stored at Seoul Incheon International Airport, 1997
Returned to service, 1999
Sold to ILFC, 2016
Leased to TransAmerican Airways, 2016
Livery - Standard 1992
Country - Republic of Korea

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Airline - Korea Line
Aircraft - Boeing 747-400 | HL7487
Delivered to Korea Line, 1993
Sold to Boeing Capital Corporation, 2015
Stored at Pinal Airpark, 2015
Livery - Standard 1992
Country - Republic of Korea

The series of accidents around the turn of the decade prompted a rebranding of Hyeong-Jeong Korea Line as simply Korea Line in 1992. The livery was almost completely reworked, with the original yellow color now being used as more of a highlight. The rebranding also featured a new logo.

In 1993, Korea Line took delivery of its first Boeing 747-400. This was actually the first widebody operated by the airline, which was pursuing an aggressive expansion strategy funded by the HJYeogam conglomerate, its majority stakeholder. After crew training flights to Tokyo and Osaka, the first route the 747-400 was launched on permanently was Seoul to New York. As deliveries continued, all of Korea Line's North American routes would be operated by the 747, and the type also eventually began to fly to Europe.

The first Airbus A330-300 was delivered in 1996, and put into service on the Seoul to Singapore route. The A330 would become both the aircraft of choice for high-demand Asian routes and lower-demand, long-range routes like the one to Seattle. However, for a few years after 1997, during the Asian Financial Crisis, some already-delivered widebodies (including the A330 registered HL2857, shown here) were stored, and other deliveries were deferred, only beginning again in 1999. By the year 2000, when all stored aircraft were returned to service and deliveries had resumed, Korea Line had a formidable fleet of 747-400s and A330-300s.



    Not bad! :)

    Not bad! :)

     

    Thanks!

    that Korean font has me quaking

    :S

     

    Edit: You can use the emoji above as the logo. Kidding! XD

    that Korean font has me quaking

     

    The font kinda looked like what Asiana had on their old livery, so I used it cause that's what this is heavily inspired by. As I said in the comments on the last one, I don't speak Korean, so in general judging fonts in non-roman or cyrillic alphabets is pretty hard for me...

    The font kinda looked like what Asiana had on their old livery, so I used it cause that's what this is heavily inspired by. As I said in the comments on the last one, I don't speak Korean, so in general judging fonts in non-roman or cyrillic alphabets is pretty hard for me...

    That font reminds me the most of a Korean version of Comic Sans / the font meant to emulate children writing. It's not at all like Asiana's old font.

    That font reminds me the most of a Korean version of Comic Sans / the font meant to emulate children writing. It's not at all like Asiana's old font.

     

    Ok, I can't really do anything about that though cause like...as I said, I don't speak Korean, which makes proper font choosing pretty much impossible.

    Isn't this just a bad ripoff of the old Asiana livery with a  Korean Air logo?

    Isn't this just a bad ripoff of the old Asiana livery with a  Korean Air logo?

     

    First of all, yin yang ≠ Korean Air logo. Secondly, yes as I said before the livery (mostly the fact that it's gray) is inspired by Asiana, but 1) all colors (even shade of gray) are original, 2) specific livery elements are original, 3) logo is original.