United and Continental Airlines merged recently. The new brand recently announced a “new” logo, although the “new” is just pieces of the old ones.
The “new” logo looks old and tired. In my opinion, United’s old logo was better than Continental’s. The Continental logo – and the new merged United logo – looks plan and conservative. It is one color. Simple shapes and design. Airlines are about speed and movement and wonder. [For a related analysis, see my post about Acela train logo here.] The “new” United logo says nothing new. Now that may indeed be part of the plan – to show consumers thatit is business as usual and the merger results in no big changes to flyers. But if I were presented with the opportunity to refresh or update such a boring plain old logo, as United did here, I would go for something more colorful, more fresh, and more youthful.
The new breed of airline competitors is younger and fresher. And their logos are much more interesting. See Virgin America, JetBlue, and other logos below. United, intentionally or not, looks like their grandfather.
Talk about destroying a brand. I’m a loyal CO elite but smart enough to know that the UA logo holds worldwide recognition.
Yes the brand that’s always last in every category. CO shuda kept its name along with its logo.
United can’t have both name and logo people! Don’t forget its an equal merger. CO livery is cleaner anyway. I cant even see United’s airplane at night coz of its dark colors.