How to ruin your livery, today! LASER airlines. Why are they all doing this? Come on people…

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Fluffy_Muffins_415@reddit

It looks like a laser head on. Their current logo just gave up

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What’s funny too is it was such a cool and creative image. LASER is an acronym for Executive Service Regional Airline (in Spanish). They chose the image because well… Linea Aerea de Servicio Ejecutivo Regional just so happened to read “LASER”. Sucks they killed it.

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SummerInPhilly@reddit

Man between this (Línea Aérea de Servicio Ejecutivo Regional), VIASA (Venezolana Internacional de Aviación Sociedad Anónima) and AVENSA (Aerovías Venezolanas Sociedad Anonima) Venezuela sure loves their acronym airlines. Or, “loved”

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Zlatan_Ibrahimovic@reddit

Nah they still do. There's Avior (Aviones de Oriente) and Rutaca (Rutas Aereas, CA) still hanging around in addition to Laser.

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SummerInPhilly@reddit

Wait Aserca is Aero Servicios Carabobo C.A., and Conviasa (Consorcio Venezolano de Industrias Aeronáuticas y Servicios Aéreos) isn’t even VIASA with a “con”

Gotta hand it to them

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SlowPokeInTexas@reddit

Definitely suggest that you not laser an airline. (I'll see myself out)

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SuppliceVI@reddit

bring back unpainted aluminum dammit

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Historical-Tour-2483@reddit

At least they added some detail on the tail?

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WhiskeyTigerFoxtrot@reddit

Can anyone explain how this airline continues to exist despite the many economic woes in Venezuela for years?

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tropicbrownthunder@reddit

Do them still have the metallic one?

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SummerInPhilly@reddit

Why does it look like the space shuttle from this angle…

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Raulch@reddit

Yes!

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SnowConvertible@reddit

The why is simple to answer; it's far cheaper...

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SummerInPhilly@reddit

And it’s also easier to repaint and resell/repurpose. Imagine having to scrape yellow paint if a fancy A321neo

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Nearby-Medicine9484@reddit

White paint is also lighter, so additional savings there as well.

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mrvarmint@reddit

During a recruiting event I was given a pretty in-depth tour of the 737 factory in Renton. One of the things they were talking about was how heavy paint is, and they noted that (and this was way before trump was a political figure) trump’s 757’s livery weighs something like 600 lbs more than a typical 757 livery which would mean doubling the weight… plus obviously having a black top makes it hotter than shit when the APU/engines are off…

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SheepherderFront5724@reddit

I heard (at Airbus) 200kg extra for a black A320, so that seems consistent.

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atn420@reddit

that tracks

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kylleo@reddit

basebull, huh?

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adhdt5676@reddit

I’m more shocked by the old 73’s in the background. Pretty crazy seeing the old engines and the non winglets

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readonlyred@reddit

Rutaca Airlines 737-200adv. According to the internet they were retired in 2024.

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tropicbrownthunder@reddit

We have actually the oldest 73 operating regular passenger flights in the world. (YV3471)

Unfortunately we have one of the eldest fleets.

The "newest" planes are from the flagship airline and are some Embraer from around 2013.

But like 80% of our fleet is MD82s

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njsullyalex@reddit

I thought Nolinor in Canada had the oldest operating passenger 737? (C-GNLK)

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xb9j@reddit

They only do charter flights

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Zlatan_Ibrahimovic@reddit

3471's retired now actually. Got sold to Estelar last year and they're using it for parts. Estelar and Avior are the last two in the country to be flying the -200s.

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2cimage@reddit

Remember flying on those versions in 1981…

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VaughnSC@reddit

It’s Venezuela, I suppose their fleets haven’t had access to the latest and greatest jets.

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csbsju_guyyy@reddit

Smoke those cigars if you got em!

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Enough-Astronomer-65@reddit

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Enough-Astronomer-65@reddit

Hot take, air canada's newer liveries suck

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briyyz@reddit

This was the best AC livery.

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briyyz@reddit

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NavierIsStoked@reddit

Because dark paint heats up like a motherfucker during ground ops at 120F.

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Tmdngs@reddit

Ray volpe

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Prestigious_Art_3909@reddit

Man look at this , this is Peak

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ConstableBlimeyChips@reddit

It's probably a trick of the light, but that tailplane looks like someone found it in a shed and super glued it onto the rest of the airframe.

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reddituseronebillion@reddit

It's funny, but the company is work does "glue" a lot of structural components together

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747ER@reddit

Some components of the aircraft (vertical stabiliser, tailcone, nose cone, wing-to-body fairing, etc.) aren’t made of metal, so they can’t be polished like this.

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