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Old Sep 12, 2005 | 1:04 pm
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My home airport, MBS (Saginaw, MI) is now officially called "MBS International Airpot". It used to be called "Tri-City International Airport", from the fact the airport is owned joinly by the cities of Midland/Bay City/Saginaw, MI. Over the course of history, there were frequent happenings of people getting shipped to "Tri-Cities Airport" in Tennessee and vice-versa--stories of people waiting to be picked up one of the airports, when they had accidentally booked and flown into another were abundant. About 5-6 years ago, 'MBS', as in the three-letter code, officially changed its name to match its code, and the stories of people erroneously ending up in the wrong state (and 500 miles away from their intended destination) have since subsided...Although--UA still calls it 'Tri-City Airport' in their records, even though the name has been gone for several years now.
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