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Old Oct 13, 2008 | 8:55 pm
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JoeJetplane
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Cool! Thanks!

Originally Posted by ucsf_med
Hello. It would be nice if a mouseover popup with decoded airport name could be automatically incorporated in posts. For example, someone talks about their PDX-MSP-CLT trip, if I didn't know what airports those were, I would move my mouseover the 3 letter code and a small popup says "Portland" or "Minneapolis." It would have to identify three letter words in CAPS to trigger the link generation. This would save the 15-30 seconds it would take to open your favorite airport code database and search it in a different window...

EDITTED
Solution for Macs:
If you use Mac OS X Tiger (10.4), you can use the Dashboard widget [ttjoseph] wrote to quickly look up 3-letter airport codes and 2-letter airline codes:
http://ll.cx/files/Airport%20Codes.zip

Solution for PC's (Firefox):

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~abuckley/airports.html
(you must download Greasemonkey first if you don't have it installed, see link)
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