Huge spelling mistake painted on Cathay Pacific airplane

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Huge spelling mistake painted on Cathay Pacific airplane

Sara M Moniuszko and Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY

 

 

Everyone makes mistakes, even those who paint giant wide-body jumbo jets. 

 

Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific Airlines shared a spelling error on social media Wednesday that shows a misspelling of their name on the side of their Boeing 777-367 aircraft.

 

There was no "F" in the carrier's name, leaving it spelled on the side of the fuselage as "CATHAY PACIIC."

 

Oops this special livery won’t last long! She’s going back to the shop!
(Source: HKADB) pic.twitter.com/20SRQpKXET

— Cathay Pacific (@cathaypacific) September 19, 2018

 

Full story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2018/09/19/huge-spelling-mistake-cathay-pacific-plane/1358760002/

 

-- USA TODAY 2018-2018-09-20

[kotsak]

Makes you wonder how they let the plane leave the painting facility with such a humongous typo. ?

[Esso49]

Does anyone know for sure where CPs planes undergo their livery painting ? Which country ?

[tifino]

certainly not enough 'f'ort put into this one

[wayned]

At Least it wasn't Cathay Pathetic!

[worgeordie]

Worth it for all the free advertising .soon corrected

regards Worgeordie

[klauskunkel]

it's now a collector's item

[inThailand]

The work of a highly trained and low paid immigrant who is justing having some fun? 

[DoctorG]

At least Cathay are having a bit of fun with it and not rushing to blame somebody to save face.

[chickenslegs]

When the paintshop foreman asked "Where's the 'F' in Pacific", the painter replied "It's off the 'F-in' west coat of America".

 

I'll get my coat.

 

 

[sandrabbit]

It's a publicity stunt ............

[jesimps]

Sack the proof reader.

[garzhe]

6 hours ago, Esso49 said:

Does anyone know for sure where CPs planes undergo their livery painting ? Which country ?

My guess is Thailand !

[SheungWan]

1 hour ago, inThailand said:

The work of a highly trained and low paid immigrant who is justing having some fun? 

Probably not. The painters would be working to a provided graphic design. Nobody is going to deliberately put their job at risk for something like that, and which is signed off. The error more likely assigned to the graphic designer working on it and providing the required lettering would be my punt. Where? Well, could be staff on the Mainland from the recently merged Cathay Dragon who might be a tad short on English skills. Maybe.

[wayned]

I worked with them back in the late 1970's and 1980's and they did all of their maintenance including painting at there facilities at Kai Tak in Hong Kong.  Occasionally they farmed out some maintenance to HACO but I think that was only minor checks.

[BoganInParasite]

Cathay has been dumbing down employees and contractors for some time to save money. Almost equal to this stuff-up is the marketing material for a new route Hong Kong to Washington DC has used images of Shanghai for Hong Kong...not kidding.

[HAKAPALITA]

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[laocowboy2]

The painter obviously didn't give a 'F'

[natway09]

I admire Kathy for sharing the blunder.

In Thailand it it would have been a black paintover straight away

[Mac98]

The main headline on page one of the newspaper I worked for topped a story on "Egpyt". There were six levels of editors, editor in charge, proof reader, back shop composition staff, and press room that could have caught it but didn't. And not one reader or circulation manager (80,000 daily circulation) called to point out the error. The eye sees what it expects to see. Magic!

[newnative]

Nobody does their job anymore.

[scorecard]

7 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

it's now a collector's item

 Yep, put the aircraft into a museum.

[ChiangMaiLightning2143]

Probably not. The painters would be working to a provided graphic design. Nobody is going to deliberately put their job at risk for something like that, and which is signed off. The error more likely assigned to the graphic designer working on it and providing the required lettering would be my punt. Where? Well, could be staff on the Mainland from the recently merged Cathay Dragon who might be a tad short on English skills. Maybe.

Nowadays the airlines outsource paintwork to so-called MRO (maintenance, repair overhaul) companies where as it happens HKG is a regional hub. Go there or Manila etc, you can see on the side tarmac planes from Europe and America even being torn apart. They don’t need to pay a decent wage with pension to Western employees anymore when they can fly their capital equipment to a low wage region!

Was this shop new to CX jobs? How it happens when an Airline has been painting it’s hundreds of planes successfully in the same paint shop, boggles the mind.

By the way we are supposed to see a regional MRO hub created at u-Taphao Air Base. The misspellings on jets should be epic here.

[bendejo]

Cathay PAC.

Chinese black-market $$ funneled into the US to support DT.

 

 

[IAMHERE]

" Roman phonic transliteration "   God, I love that. I'm thinking right now of how to make that funny in a future TV comment. ?

[Skeptic7]

23 hours ago, Esso49 said:

Does anyone know for sure where CPs planes undergo their livery painting ? Which country ?

Spelling errors so common and hilarious here...guessing Thailand! 

[Sydebolle]

Cathay Pacific did it again; give their marketing team a GOLD medal. 

You seem to not get it; this "mistake" was done purposely as it bought Cathay into each and every news channel all over the planet, the social and printed media and has created the most fantastic brand awareness - again. 

Perfect, simply perfect - congratulations! 

[CharlieH]

Off topic post removed

[tweedledee2]

1 hour ago, Skeptic7 said:

Spelling errors so common and hilarious here...guessing Thailand! 

I was in Tops Market Surin a while back and saw a sign in English "On Sale 30 Bath". Was shopping in a major US grocery store and they advertised "Fresh Banananas".  In high school,  saw every poster, hand-printed and posted by the local Pastors wife advertising an "Ice Cream Social at the 1st Chirstian Church".  

[ncc1701d]

Most of Cathay’s aircraft are painted (and major maintenance work done) in HAECO in Xiamen. (The “F” was fixed in Hong Kong). It was a genuine mistake, not a publicity stunt.