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Pionair N.Z. & Australia websites

Pionair.com website, New Zealand homepage, Private air inflight service photo centre, Pionair Aircraft Charter page to the left, Tailormade travel page to the right.
Pionair website, aircraft charter page, Tauck group photo centre, Pionair Cargo page to the left, Tailormade travel page to the right.
Pionair website, Tailormade Travel page, Uluru adventure photo centre, Pionair Cargo page to the left, Destinations page to the right.
Pionair.com website, New Zealand / Destinations / New Zealand page, West Coast scenic photo centre, Pionair Air Cargo page to the left, Tailormade travel page to the right.
Pionair website, Pionair Cargo page common to both the .com, and the .com.au sites, Air Charter page to the left, Tailormade travel / Destinations / New Zealand page to the right.
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Pionair Australia’s Convair VH-PDW at Launnceston, Tasmania, Australia
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Rebrand of a New Zealand aviation company and inbound travel wholesaler who had just established in Australia
Rebrand of a New Zealand aviation company and inbound travel wholesaler who had just established in Australia
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Convair CV580 cockpit panorama, Sydney.
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Convair CV580 Cabin Safety Instructions Card, front cover, hand-held
Southern DC3 Father’s Day Champagne flight air and ground crew, 02/09/2007 at Wigram Airfield.
Large format, A2 street sign poster for the Southern DC3 Champagne Flights on Father’s Day
Group photo, Southern DC3, NAC 60th Anniversary Flight,
Group photo, Southern DC3, NAC 60th Anniversary Flight, ZK-AMY, WG–AS–TU–WG, 23/03/2007.
Pionair DC3 Skyliner Store, classic gift collection brochure.
Southern DC3, ZK AMY air-to-air

Pionair.com, Pionair.com.au overview

Pionair logo, rebrandThe Australian and New Zealand private air charter and inbound tourism wholesaling firms had two websites side-by-side, Pionair.com, and Pionair.com.au which I designed and maintained through three iterations between 2003–2009. In 2008 the new combination “affluent travel/private air charter/air cargo” themed redesign for both websites was briefed.

Pionair potted history

Pionair got off the ground in New Zealand in the early 90s, cutting its teeth providing private air flightseeing flights aboard their first DC3 based in Queenstown.

Pionair New Zealand and Pionair Australia were a fledgling trans-tasman private air charter firm when I took them on as a client in 2002. They owned three classic DC3 and two turbo-prop Convair aircraft, and had air crew, air operations personnel and an aviation engineer on staff. Pionair was also a “best-in-class” inbound wholesale travel operator to the world’s finest destinations in the Oceania region.

The private air charter division in New Zealand moved passengers only while in Australia they moved passengers and cargo. The travel department in Christchurch had a group focussed on designing, marketing and operating escorted group air tours and another new business group with a focus on Free Inboard Travel, which I branded as Pionair Unparalleled Journeys (UPJ). The UPJ “affluent travel” group’s clientele was high-end travel agents in the U.S. and internationally.

The integrated brand connection

The consistent application of the Pionair Unparalleled Journeys (UPJ) “All black” visual theme across all the printed collateral was successful in clearly communicating the company’s personality, philosophy and vision. The comprehensive programme of communications included the Pionair website.

The UPJ branding proved successful at launching and consistently differentiating the company from its competitors in the international affluent travel market.

To provide a link between print and web, and to optically distinguish the Tailormade Travel (Unparalleled Journeys, Escorted tours) division of the company from the Private Air Charter division, the UPJ page backgrounds were all black. This differentiated the UPJ department of the site by strong contrast from the white background of the Private Air Charter, passenger and cargo charter pages.

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