BA Tail Design

Here is another example of some good design gone bad. The BA tail fins. Originally it was a design of the british flag but then when they merged with Iberian I think it was they decided to incorporate a more multicultural idea to be seen as more of a world leading airline. However this backfired and was seen more that they were moving away from being british.

British Airways World ‘Tails’. The tail designs shown here represented Kalahari Desert, Scotland, England, Netherlands, Russia, Africa and Australia.

former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, famously draped her hankerchief over a small model of BA 747 aircraft, showing her disgust at the design.

What was it she said?

“We fly the British flag, not these awful things.”