Originally Posted by
FriendlySkies
KMKC to be precise
MKC -- Municipal airport, Kansas City (old timers still call it Municipal, although it has been re-named after our still-living 1970s Mayor, Charlie Wheeler.)
MCI -- Mid-Continent International airport (which everyone locally calls KCI)
I don't know why the acronyms got so mixed up in KC aviation, but there it is.
BTW, KC has the current US big-city record for most living ex-mayors (stretching back to 1971):
Charlie Wheeler (born in 1926 and still advocating for "grands travaux": the Olympics, a heavy-rail subway)
Dick Berkley
Emanuel Cleaver
Kay Barnes
Mark Funkhouser
Sly James (term ending shortly)
...and another morsel of trivia. Maybe "something in the water" -- one hundred or so years ago in 1923, KC also held that record...
George Shelley (elected 1878)
Leander Talbot
Webster Davis
James Reed
Tom Crittenden
Darius Brown
George Edwards
Sam Strother
Frank Cromwell (term ended 1924)