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A press release from Taiwan's favourite carrier Eva Air stumbled this way the other day, announcing it was going to paint another two of its Airbus A330s in Hello Kitty livery and increase the number of destinations served by the jets. While I quite like Eva for the sheer eye-melting cuteness of it all, I'm not sure I'd ever want to travel on the Hello Kitty express - imagine the shrieking... Also note the attention to detail in painting the tug in a similar colour scheme. Lawks.

Credit: Eva Air

Replete with dragon motif - to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Dragon - this Airbus A320, the carrier's 100th (registration - we think - 9M-AQM, although that's listed in our database as a 1972-vintage Boeing 737-200 that was parked in 2008) arrived in AirAsia's fleet earlier this week. According to the press bumf, it took a team of 1,000s of painters, a billion hours to complete it (although to be honest, I might have skimmed that bit).

Credit: AirAsia

To borrow from Spinal Tap: How much more black could it be? None more black. It's Air New Zealand's latest Boeing 777-300ER (ZK-OKQ) resplendent in the All Black colour scheme sat next to a Beech 1900D turboprop belonging to Eagle Airways at Auckland. Could it be any more awesome? None more awesome.

Credit: Peter Clark

Having recently secured a multi-million cash boost from Etihad Airways - and probably made its immediate future safe - we're sure that Air Berlin, the carrier behind this festive Boeing 737-800, is celebrating the holiday period with an extra spring in its lederhosen. The aircraft ws snapped at Berlin Tegel earlier this month.

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I've been looking for pictures of this Hello Kitty-themed Airbus A330-300 for a few weeks now and I can see it repelling as many as it draws in. Anyway, thank you to Taiwan's EVA Air for doing this, it's made the world a more day-glo place.

No cats were harmed during its production. Probably.

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ANA announced at the Paris air show today its first two Boeing 787 Dreamliners will be painted in a special scheme to celebrate the type's introduction.

The livery features a large "787" at the front of the aircraft and then blue lines at the rear of the fuselage "designed to highlight how the three core elements of the airline's service brand - innovation, uniqueness and the inspiration of modern Japan - operate across the ANA network", ANA says.

After of the 787 numbering is the carrier's logo, its Premium class logo, and then the Dreamliner logo.

ANA is due to receive its first 787 in August or September. It is the launch customer for the type with 55 aircraft on order.

Qantas subsidiary QantasLink unveiled in Sydney today a Bombardier Q400 in a wildlife theme in support of the Taronga Western Plains Zoo and the carrier's commitment to promoting regional tourism. Taronga Zoo is located near Dubbo in New South Wales, approximately 400 km from Sydney.

The Q400, VH-QOW, features images of giraffes, rhinos, and grassland.