Africa/Middle East: January 2009 Archives

I've always been a sucker for whacky airliner paint schemes. They can be used to promote events or to lobby or sell.

Here is a new one from Etihad, which has painted one of its Airbus A340-600s in a special Formula 1 grand prix livery to promote the Abu Dhabi race on 1 November.

Travellers will see it on Etihad's services from its Middle East base to New York, Toronto, London and Sydney.