The official name of the state owned airport serving Utqiagvik is the Wiley Post - Will Rogers Memorial Airport. No one uses the airport name when you land there, so the only vestige of the former name of Utqiagvik is the airport code, BRW. Just like LED is still the airport code for the city formerly known as Leningrad. And YFB is the airport code for the community on Baffin Island formerly known as Frobisher Bay (now Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut). And YCO is the airport serving the community formerly known as Coppermine (now Kugluktuk). The airlines flying into those Inuit communities in Canada do not use the former names of these communities at all. Alaska Airlines should adopt the same standard. You can change planes at BRW to go somewhere else on the North Slope, but that involves leaving the Alaska Airlines terminal building. This is the end of their spoke.
Last edited by drseagrass; Jun 29, 2024 at 6:02 pm
Reason: grammar fix