When Thomas Cook collapsed, Condor kept flying — but every logo and trademark of the former parent had to come off the fleet. Four types, fifty aircraft, and not one hour of ground time that was not already in the plan.
Condor needed to remove the identity of a collapsed parent company from an entire fleet and replace it with its own — quickly, visibly, and without taking aircraft out of service to do it. LXM AERO ran the modification approval, produced the vinyl kit and installed it, working inside the A-checks the fleet was already scheduled for.
It remains the largest airline rebranding of its kind ever carried out in vinyl livery.
“B767 port tail”, with its own part number, held against the aircraft it belongs to. That is what makes a fleet programme repeatable: after the first aircraft of a type, the next forty-nine need no new approval and no new tooling — only material, a team and a slot.
Design approval, production and installation ran as one scope.
The new scheme was engineered and approved as a modification for each of the four types — a new tail design, titles, blankouts of the old titles, wingtip logos, and the flags and registrations for aircraft moving from one AOC to the other. One approved data set per type, then repeated across the fleet without going back to the beginning each time.
EASA Part 21J Minor ModThe scheme was produced as a kit per aircraft, in aviation-grade high-performance vinyl. Once the first kit of a type existed, aircraft two to fifty needed no new approval and no new tooling — only material and a slot.
High-performance vinylOur teams went to the aircraft and worked inside maintenance that was already booked. All work was done during the planned A-checks, within three months.
On site, at the aircraftNot flying fifty aircraft to a paint shop is also an emissions figure — you can calculate it for your own fleet.
Send the types, the number of aircraft and the date the new identity has to be visible, and we will tell you what fits into your existing checks.
