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Apr 19, 1999 | 6:54 am

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FCO = Fiumicino (Rome)

I like

SGN = Ho Chi Minh City (ex Saigon)
LED = St. Petersburg (ex Leningrad)
PEK = Beijing (Peking)

Which just goes to show that politics and city names may change but IATA stays the same.

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