Originally Posted by
Jinxed_K
If it's the name that's making people think Narita (Tokyo-Narita International Airport) and Haneda (Tokyo International Airport) are a stone's throw away from each other (they're about 80km apart), maybe it's time we just call Narita, Chiba International airport. =)
It has nothing to do with the name. It has to do with the fact that both NRT and HND are coded as airports for city code TYO, with a defined inter-airport transfer connection procedure between them. That's why it's common to see flight search results that include that transfer, but not SFO-SJC -- those aren't co-terminals.