{"id":21745,"date":"2011-12-06T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/polynesian-blue-to-be-rebranded-virgin-samoa-3\/"},"modified":"2011-12-06T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T21:28:00","slug":"polynesian-blue-to-be-rebranded-virgin-samoa-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/12\/polynesian-blue-to-be-rebranded-virgin-samoa-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Polynesian Blue to be rebranded Virgin Samoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginsamoa.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hotelmanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Virgin-samoa.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The government of Samoa has just revealed a new brand and livery for the country&#8217;s national airline, which is operated together with Virgin Australia.<\/p>\n<p>To be known as Virgin Samoa, the carrier will have a &#8220;fresh, contemporary and sophisticated look, consistent with its partner Virgin Australia but with a uniquely Samoan flavour,&#8221; according to ceo Mark Pitt.<\/p>\n<p>Samoan Prime Minister, The Hon. Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, said that the government&#8217;s vision when it entered the Polynesian Blue joint venture in 2005 had been to create a national airline that would be &#8220;financially strong and that would provide growth opportunities and financial stability for our country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have achieved these goals,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The livery features elements such as a palm tree motif on the fuselage and a specially designed &#8216;tatau&#8217; pattern on the engines, created by a Samoan master tattooist, with the aircraft to enter service with the new look and an upgraded interior in the first quarter of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we now move into an even brighter future as Virgin Samoa we felt it important to include a respectful reference to our culture and our past,&#8221; Pitt said.<\/p>\n<p>The new airline&#8217;s flights and fares will be detailed in a new website at www.virginsamoa.com but at this stage the site appears to not yet be live.<\/p>\n<p>More information in today&#8217;s <b>Travel Daily<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Samoa has just revealed a new brand and livery for the country&#8217;s national airline, which is operated together with Virgin Australia. To be known as Virgin Samoa, the carrier will have a &#8220;fresh, contemporary and sophisticated look, consistent with its partner Virgin Australia but with a uniquely Samoan flavour,&#8221; according to ceo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virgin-brands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}