Air Flag

Air Flag is the ninth puzzle of Athena Puzzles Season 1. It was made by GyllieGyllie.

The first team to solve this puzzle was the Untitled Puzzle Team and it was solved by Orca.

It is the only puzzle thus far to be unsolvable in its original form.

Puzzle
Upon reaching this puzzle, each team would be presented with this image:

Hints
5 minutes - What the exact colors are is very important for this

10 minutes - How else can you represent colors as well

15 minutes - Did you try to google the color codes

20 minutes - What do you see if you connect all of them together

25 minutes - #colors

Solution
The first step in solving this puzzle is to take the hex codes from all six colors: AA1442, AA1083, AA2054, AA2329, AA1733, AA1460

If you then searched on Google for each of the hex codes, you would find that all six are also flight codes for American Airlines.

The flights in particular were: Chicago O'Hare to Portland, Portland to Phoenix Sky Harbor, Phoenix Sky Harbor to Miami, Miami to Chicago O'Hare, Chicago O'Hare to Dallas/Fort Worth, Dallas/Fort Worth to Portland

If you drew each of these six flight paths on a map of the U.S, you would find that they take the shape of an envelope.

As of September 2020, some of the flight codes have changed to different cities, so the puzzle is now mostly unsolvable.

Solvers
The teams that solved this puzzle, in order: Untitled Puzzle Team (Orca), ßig ßrain ßoys (squid), Doge (Xx_Doge420_xX), The Cult of Gaze (Zahra), South Asian Boys (Airborne)