New VS Icons for A350

From Virgin Atlantic's Instagram this morning. A selection of new diverse icons to be painted onto the A350 fleet - "a diverse range of men and women representing modern Britain, coming to our four brand new A350-1000 aircraft this year, followed by a further eight by 2021"

A couple more:

And:

[mitchja]

More details can be found here

This isn't a 'late to the party' April Fool's joke in poor taste is it? This is actually going to happen!

You not a fan Joey?

Why would anyone care. This sort of thing entirely about cheap publicity.

Corporate virtue signalling at it's finest.

How can they represent modern Britain when they're all so...thin and healthy looking?!

Surely if it wants to properly represent modern Britain it needs to have at least a couple of planes with Tommy Robinson / Jacob R-M / Nigel Farage sorts on them...

One of the characters is called Cool Runner... Unnecessary, stereotypical nonsense at it's best. The nose cone of a plane that could be called upon to travel to any number of destinations around the world is not the best of places to make political statements in my opinion.

I am going to miss the Flying Lady, it was a nice nod to the tradition of installing figureheads on sailing ships. The figureheads usually had something to do with the name of the ship, but I assume having a different figure for each aircraft might be commercially unrealistic.

Perhaps some focus and subsequent management group from HR disagreed and decided to invent a problem that didn't exist to fix in the name of progress.

A pity actually, as a creative evolution of the Flying Lady to more reflect the name of the individual aircraft might have been fun and definitely something unique amongst airlines.

Corporate virtue signalling at it's finest.

Well it is what Delta does best!