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What is one of the first things you learn when you start school? It's how to spell your own name.
Well, it seems like Cathay Pacific called in sick that day.
According to the South China Morning Post, photographs emerged on Wednesday morning of a Boeing 777-367 plane for the Hong Kong carrier, with its livery missing an 'f', leaving it to read as 'Cathay Paciic'.
However, the airline saw the funny side, and tweeted photographs of the mishap with the caption:
Oops this special livery won’t last long! She’s going back to the shop!
Oops this special livery won’t last long! She’s going back to the shop! (Source: HKADB) https://t.co/20SRQpKXET— Cathay Pacific (@Cathay Pacific) 1537327406
When an engineer for the airlines' sister company Haeco was shown the typo, he was baffled by how it could have occurred. Speaking to The Post, he said:
The spacing is too on-point for a mishap. We have stencils. Should be a blank gap in between letters if it was a real mistake I think.
The mishap is also likely to be an expensive one, reportedly costing several thousand dollars to fix, with a paint job on a whole 777 costing between $100,000 to $200,000, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Despite this, the internet found the whole debacle highly amusing.
Get it the F back into the paint shop! https://t.co/EzGRGY97i2— Josh Mankiewicz (@Josh Mankiewicz) 1537392108
'F' jokes abounded.
@cathaypacific Fixed it. https://t.co/OIZbUGX8ez— j๏nny 🇳🇿🇯🇵🇲🇾 (@j๏nny 🇳🇿🇯🇵🇲🇾) 1537362055
@cathaypacific I’m sure someone will ix it— Simon Cuthbert (@Simon Cuthbert) 1537337239
What, the F?! https://t.co/6fNXGG9cBh— Dhruva Jaishankar (@Dhruva Jaishankar) 1537430346
@cathaypacific I guess you could say you don't associate your airline with an F satisfaction. (you could turn this into a campaign...)— Jason 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒆𝒓𝒎 𝑮𝒖𝒚 Tetro (@Jason 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒆𝒓𝒎 𝑮𝒖𝒚 Tetro) 1537384614
Others took matters into their own hands.
While others failed to see the funny side.
@cathaypacific If they can get this obviously wrong makes you wonder about the more important engineering on the plane!— HK Phil (@HK Phil) 1537327516
This isn't the first time that the airline have made errors on one of its paint jobs. A few years ago, one of the first planes to be painted in the airline's current branding had its green 'brushwing' logo painted back to front.
Better luck next time, folks!
HT Mashable
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