United Airlines has chosen a special plane for the premiere of the route that, starting tonight, will connect New York with the Canary Islands. The Boeing 757 that according to the flight tracking website Flightradar24 will be used on the first trip is painted with iconic images of the states of New Jersey and New York created by designer Corinne Antonelli. Among the elements that appear on the outside of the device is the skyline of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty.
The flight is scheduled to take off at 9:40 p.m. (2:40 a.m. in the Canary Islands) from the Newark airport in New Jersey and land in Tenerife South at 09.45 am tomorrow, Friday. The route will have three weekly frequencies in both directions, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays departing from the capital of the world, with the opposite route on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The company has more than 16,000 seats scheduled during the summer season.
The livery (design of the exterior paint of the aircraft) was chosen in the contest Her Art Here United, which gave women artists the opportunity to use an airplane as a canvas. And it is that, as United points out on its website, the National Museum of Women in the Arts of the USA points out that although 51% of female artists are women, less than 13% of the art displayed in American museums is by female artists.
the contest Her Art Here was open to those who identify as women, including cisgender, transgender, aligned or non-binary women, and residents of the United States, and asked artists to visually represent the states of New York and New Jersey or California, two key markets for the airline, with its own style. The company also requested that it combine the image that the artist had of the company and of the communities of each region.
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