When German leisure airline Condor started flying its new Airbus A330neos bearing the provider’s colourful striped livery, a pilot tried to persuade a traveler (me) that just a few days earlier than every flight, passengers might vote on what coloration stripes could be on their plane.
Condor began rolling out its striped livery in April 2022, citing the colours and accoutrements of summer season — from seaside towels and ice cream parlors to parasols — as inspiration.
The provider selected 5 distinct colours and names for the livery stripes: sunshine (yellow), ardour (purple), sea (blue), island (inexperienced) and seaside (beige). In September 2024, Condor added a pink stripe for breast most cancers consciousness.
The stripe colours you get should not assigned by a vote, regardless of the pilot’s joke.
Passengers on long-haul flights might board an plane with blue, inexperienced or beige stripes, whereas short- and medium-haul passengers might 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 tip 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 (value about $10.78).
You possibly can money within the voucher for meals or drink objects, akin 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. In any other case, you need to use it for merchandise from the Condor Bordshop, which sells quite a lot of Condor airplane fashions sporting the striped livery and a choice of socks adorned with blue or purple airplanes. You have to 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 photograph postcard of their matchy-matchy look. We advise posing not solely with the aircraft however with a few of the stripey facilities you see or collect contained in the aircraft (such because the striped headrests, paper cups, air illness luggage, cocktail napkins or sugar packets).
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There are guidelines and rules to Condor’s Match the Stripes contest, in fact, and you may learn up on them on the web site.
However the backside line is that so as to get the inflight contest voucher from Condor this month, you have to to put on a shirt or gown with coloured stripes going lengthwise or crosswise with alternating white stripes. The coloured stripes in your outfit should be an approximate match to the Condor colours on the aircraft you might be boarding (i.e., sea/blue, ardour/purple, island/inexperienced, seaside/beige, sunshine/yellow or vivid pink) and be simply recognizable.
The crew on board will function judges and determine if in case you have matched the coloured stripes accurately. That is another excuse to at all times be variety to your crew.
However how will you recognize what coloration stripes to put on?
Simple — Condor will inform you.
Two days earlier than your Condor flight, you possibly can search on-line right here to seek out out which plane has been assigned to your flight.
As soon as you recognize what plane you will be flying on, you can see what coloured livery stripes are on the outside of the aircraft (right here).
And as soon as you recognize what coloration stripes will likely be in your airplane, you possibly can head to your closet or dresser drawers, the closest on-line or brick-and-mortar clothes store, and even your stitching machine and pick a striped, color-coordinated shirt or gown to put on on the aircraft.