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Iidher illi d-Donna Bendata taf tittanta ucholl lil cumpanii tal-airu. Achrau uahda din l-istoria duar sc'giara lill-cumpania SN Brussels Airlines mita iddecidiet ichollha tlettasc il bocca fl-logo taghha:

SN Brussels Revise New Logo

This week, SN Brussels Airlines was busy changing the new 13-ball logo on the tail and sides of one of its Airbus jets and adding a 14th one in response to complaints from superstitious customers in the United States and Italy.

The airline, the successor to the merged SN Brussels and Virgin Express, won't start flying until March 25 and the company had only painted one of its planes with the new logo, which had prompted a flood of disapproving e-mails and calls when it had been unveiled last year."They said they were not pleased with an aircraft with a logo with 13 balls because they think it brings them bad luck," said Brussels Airlines spokesman Geert Sciot.

Together, the 13 balls in the new logo, they had the perfect balance to form a stylized "b" for the new Belgian carrier Brussels Airlines and the number also matched the airline's destinations in Africa, a key market. "It was harmony," she said, wistfully.Brussels Airlines had the choice to go to 12 dots or 14. It chose 14 because of the religious connotations of the 12 disciples.

Luckily, Brussels Airlines is not flying to China, where 14 is a definite no-no. Fourteen, or one-four, in Mandarin, sounds like the phrase "to want to die."

sfi*ata imlestiia ghall eteru minn Jacques René Zammit nhar martedì, febbraio 27, 2007