to feel that a "hello kitty" aircraft is not as reassuring as a blue and red ribbon?

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I flew out of Taipei yesterday on the national carrier- Eva Air. This is what people were expected to travel on, an aircraft branded with Hello Kitty FFS. It did not make me feel safe, what is that their intention do you think? How on earth did a marketing department come up with this awful idea? There is a whole magazine devoted to HK goods on board. it beggars belief.

I've flown with Eva several times but not on the HK plane - although I was very intrigued to read about it in the in-flight mag. Not as intrigued as the DC who really want to go on it.

I really don't care what the plane likes but really wish they'd give more than one glass of wine on a 13 hour flight. In fact, if HK had appeared with an extra glass on one of those occasions, I'd have welcomed her with open arms.

Did you get the HK themed meal??

I love it too. Please say the cabin crew were dressed up in Hello Kitty ears and hair bows.

weeblue true I'd rather have hello kitty on things than retrograde sexist stuff which purports to be ironic or post-modern or whathaveyou but in actual fact is just old fashioned bog-standard sexism.

How does it affect safety? Was it made out of plastic like all the other hello kitty tat paraphernalia?

YABU- I flew to Taipei with EVA once and was so disappointed that it was their regular green branded plane. I would have loved to fly on the HK one.

DD thinks it is 'awesome' and DS would like to go on it
I think YABU although I don't think I would like all planes to be co-branded

I think it must go something like:

Hello Kitty is liked by girls
Girls are not very good with science engineering type things
And get easily distracted by sparkly things
While shrieking

So having Hello Kitty on the side of the plane means that all the people involved in it are "girly" ie frivolous and a bit stupid, and so unlikely to be good at doing things like safely operating a plane.

What was I saying about sexism again?

Maybe OP will come back and clarify if she would have the same response if it were Spiderman on the side of the plane

It looks brilliant :)
Not the way I would have chosen to decorate an aeroplane but then I lack imagination, so well done to them.

The sexism is alive and well on board. Men pandered to, slippers popped on their feet, egos massaged, wine flowing. I got a glass of wine when I specifically asked for it, the bloke next to was offered champagne. When I saw him get some I requested it and decided I needed to pull up my big girl pants and start asking instead of waiting to be offered. They are v parsimonious with wine IME.

Tweeness (Kawaii) is a big part of the culture across much of Asia.

I like this one too...

Enough said.

I'd love to travel on the HK plane, but then again I love HK :D BTW, kawaii is cuteness, rather than tweeness.

Depends on your perspective...it literally translates as 'able to be loved', I call it twee.

Brussels Airline have a Tintin plane.

Hello Kitty gives me an irrational inner rage. It would kill me to get on this plane.

OTOH I'd hop onto a peppa pig/Disney plane with a great big smile on my face.

Why would 'halal' kitty be more disconcerting stoopstoconker?

The sexism is alive and well on board

That the aviation industry is sexist has surely not come as news to anyone?

Travel as a lone female and get ignored. Airlines are a bastion of sexism, how many commercial pilots are women? How many girls grow up saying I want to be a pilot? If I had my time again, I'd be a pilot.

YABU.

You must be too young to remember the BA rebrand in the eighties, thatcher put the curtain back over the model plane it was such a dog's dinner.

I don't think the outer decor of a plane would affect the pilot's or engineer's skills one iota.

I'm not too young I remember them well and loved those arty tail fins. They were not twee ickle kitties they were strong ethnic artworks designed to show the wonderful art of the places BA flew to . She (Thatch) was nasty philistine who grows ever more hateful as we find out more about what she knew and covered up.

This started out as a lighthearted "ooh look at that" (when you travel alone as much as me you long for someone to nudge and point out things to) but I love an excuse for a good rant about the old bitch. Bring it on!

YABU.
In Japan, they have Pokémon planes. They also have a hello kitty themed hospital. As a previous poster said, the relationship with Pikachu and Hello Kitty is culturally different, it's a mascot for their country, really.
It's not bad.

I would LOVE to see my dses faces if they'd been expected to travel on a HK plane :-).

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