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 number of days earlier than every flight, passengers might vote on what colour stripes can 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 service selected 5 distinct colours and names for the livery stripes: sunshine (yellow), ardour (pink), 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 usually are not 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 pink, 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 a good time the third anniversary of the livery’s introduction, Condor is internet hosting a “Match the Stripes” contest.
From now by way of 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 may money within the voucher for meals or drink objects, similar 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 should utilize it for merchandise from the Condor Bordshop, which sells a wide range of Condor airplane fashions sporting the striped livery and a choice of socks adorned with blue or pink airplanes. You need to use the voucher on board throughout your flight.
Voucher winners may even 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 airplane however with a number of 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, in fact, and you’ll learn up on them on the web site.
However the backside line is that to be able to get the inflight contest voucher from Condor this month, you will want 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 airplane you might be boarding (i.e., sea/blue, ardour/pink, island/inexperienced, seaside/beige, sunshine/yellow or brilliant pink) and be simply recognizable.
The crew on board will function judges and resolve you probably have matched the coloured stripes appropriately. That is another excuse to at all times be sort to your crew.
However how will what colour 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 search out out which plane has been assigned to your flight.
As soon as what plane you may be flying on, you can see what coloured livery stripes are on the outside of the airplane (right here).
And as soon as what colour stripes will probably 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 airplane.
