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Old Jun 10, 2013 | 1:26 am
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Originally Posted by RooFlyer
Diversion of topic to airport codes. Doesn't look like these are change-able very easily.

I imagine it must burn up the Chinese no end for Beijing Capital airport to still be 'PEK' and ditto the Indians for Mumbai / BOM.

The Canadians must have been feeling very pure when they agreed for ?all their airports to be in the format Yxx, sometimes with hints of the city involved (YVR - Vancouver), sometimes not (YYZ = Toronto Lester Pearson).
Ho Chi Minh City remains SGN despite renaming from Saigon to HCMC after the end of the Vietnam War.

Personally I agree with IATA's names more than the new names imposed by governments trying to be politically correct.
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