When German leisure airline Condor started flying its new Airbus A330neos bearing the service’s colourful striped livery, a pilot tried to persuade a traveler (me) that a few days earlier than every flight, passengers may vote on what shade stripes could be on their plane.
Condor began rolling out its striped livery in April 2022, citing the colours and accoutrements of summer time — from seashore towels and ice cream parlors to parasols — as inspiration.
The service selected 5 distinct colours and names for the livery stripes: sunshine (yellow), ardour (purple), sea (blue), island (inexperienced) and seashore (beige). In September 2024, Condor added a pink stripe for breast most cancers consciousness.
The stripe colours you get will not be assigned by a vote, regardless of the pilot’s joke.
Passengers on long-haul flights could board an plane with blue, inexperienced or beige stripes, whereas short- and medium-haul passengers could board planes with purple, yellow or pink stripes.
Now, Condor has accomplished the repainting of its whole fleet of Airbus A320-200, Airbus A321-200, Airbus A300neo and Boeing 757-300 plane with the brand new striped livery. And, to have fun the third anniversary of the livery’s introduction, Condor is internet hosting a “Match the Stripes” contest.
From now by the top of April 2025, Condor passengers who put on a striped shirt or gown that matches the outside stripes on their plane will get a 10-euro voucher (price about $10.78).
You can money within the voucher for meals or drink gadgets, equivalent to Brewdog beer in a striped can or a Condorpolitan cocktail (that includes vodka, candy lychee, lime zest and cranberry) packaged in a striped tube, from the Skyline Cafe. Otherwise, you should use it for merchandise from the Condor Bordshop, which sells a number of Condor airplane fashions sporting the striped livery and a number of socks adorned with blue or purple airplanes. You should use the voucher on board throughout your flight.
Voucher winners may also obtain a code to make use of with the My Postcard web site or app to allow them to create a picture postcard of their matchy-matchy look. We counsel posing not solely with the airplane however with among the stripey facilities you see or collect contained in the airplane (such because the striped headrests, paper cups, air illness baggage, cocktail napkins or sugar packets).
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There are guidelines and rules to Condor’s Match the Stripes contest, after all, and you’ll be able to learn up on them on the web site.
But the underside line is that in an effort to get the inflight contest voucher from Condor this month, you will have to put on a shirt or gown with coloured stripes going lengthwise or crosswise with alternating white stripes. The coloured stripes on your outfit have to be an approximate match to the Condor colours on the airplane you might be boarding (i.e., sea/blue, ardour/purple, island/inexperienced, seashore/beige, sunshine/yellow or shiny pink) and be simply recognizable.
The crew on board will function judges and determine when you’ve got matched the coloured stripes appropriately. This is one more reason to all the time be type to your crew.
But how will you realize what shade stripes to put on?
Easy — Condor will inform you.
Two days earlier than your Condor flight, you’ll be able to search on-line right here to search out out which plane has been assigned to your flight.
Once you realize what plane you will be flying on, you’ll see what coloured livery stripes are on the outside of the airplane (right here).
And as soon as you realize what shade stripes will likely be on your airplane, you’ll be able to head to your closet or dresser drawers, the closest on-line or brick-and-mortar clothes store, and even your stitching machine and select a striped, color-coordinated shirt or gown to put on on the airplane.
