I passionately submit that it does, absolutely, matter what the airplane looks like. Do we not care what our bridges and skyscrapers look like, functionality aside?
When it comes to airplanes and pilots, mainstream journalism, like Hollywood, usually gets it wrong. Movies we can forgive. The press, however, we hold to a much higher standard.
RwandAir gets its own beer, a woman lives in SFO when she can't pay her baggage fees, a Singpore 777 rolls onto the grass, British Airways has a deal to buy bmi, and more...