Originally Posted by Dan72
LED: St Petersburg - Leningrad
BOM: Mumbai - Bombay
MAA: Chennai - Madras
CCU: Kolkata - Calcutta
PEK: Beijing - Peking*
RGN: Yangon - Rangoon*
*I'm not sure that Beijing changed it's [sic] name. I have been told it was more that the practice of translating names moved to a new standard.
I think you mean transliteration, rather than translation. That would surely also be the case with BOM and CCU.
cheers,
Henry