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Flying 101: Kulula’s Livery is Factual, Quite Funny

By February 1st, 2010

Flying 101: Kulula’s Livery is Factual, Quite Funny

I got this in an e-mail today, and it thankfully broke the boring monotony that was creating a PowerPoint presentation (I pity the fool who has to sit through this one).

Local airline Kulula has always stood out from the crowd from their odd choice of colour, to their jetsetter ads, and the comical safety demos on the flights. This sense of humour has found its way onto livery that has been applied to their fleet of Boeing 737s.

The airplanes are covered with the Flying 101 livery that shows interesting details about the plane, such as the captain’s window which is marked as the big cheese, the fuel tanks (the go-go juice), to the loo (or mile-high club initiation chamber), and the black box (which is actually orange).

Have a look at some images after the jump.

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[thanks Karolyn]


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15 Comments
  1. Azraelz on February 1st, 2010

    i love it!

  2. easy on February 1st, 2010

    i can’t see where they put the PRICE COLLUSION decal?

    probably explains how they can afford to do a stunt like this.
    am i sounding a slightly bitter? ;-)

  3. Gavin on February 2nd, 2010

    Oh awesome… I love the mile high club initiation chamber

    • easy on February 2nd, 2010

      i wonder if that’s an invitation for all kulula’s fliers? :D

  4. Lucy Furr on February 2nd, 2010

    I must say that although I find kulula’s advertising amusing, I was anything but amused by their service the few times I flew with them. I guess they spend all their dosh on advertising and don’t have any left over to pay for decent ground staff, mechanics or pilots? :devil:

  5. steve on February 2nd, 2010

    Awesome — I’ve always enjoyed their adverts (pool guy FTW!) too.

  6. Arthur on February 2nd, 2010

    Mile high initiation chamber Been there, done that! :yes:

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  8. Al on February 5th, 2010

    Surely the opposite “front door” is the one to be labeled? Pretty rare to use the starboard side doors.

    Plsu, the windows they’ve labeled have pretty rubbish views compared to most of the windows on the plane…

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  10. WA on February 5th, 2010

    What was the source of these images? There are a number of people on Boing Boing, including myself, who strongly suspect that the images are faked.

    • prawn1 on February 6th, 2010

      William, I got the images via email, and considering how humourous Kulula has been with their advertising here, I assumed they were legit.

      I did ask Kulula on Twitter and they say it’s real.

      @onelargeprawn 100% it will be flying in SA within the next couple of weeks (just after we’ve done a moon landing with it) yup its real

      Additionally, it seems Chris Rawlinson knows the Kulula marketing director and it’s been confirmed as real.

  11. Handsome Brian on August 21st, 2010

    I love it. But why on the port side is there a south african registration (ZS-ZWP), whilst on starboard it’s a Czech registration (OK-PIC)? I smell deception in the air :-)

    • easy on August 22nd, 2010

      its a temporary registration as the plane came from the czech republic. i assume the decals were applied there.

      remember, south african companies can and do commission business abroad, from time to time ;)

  12. Handsome Brian on August 22nd, 2010

    You’re absolutely right Mr Easy! The pix are even on Kulula’s own web site. Thanks for this!