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Old Apr 27, 2007 | 8:15 am
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nako
 
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Originally Posted by bhatnasx
One concern I would have about this suggestions is that some forums, where airport codes are used regularly (like the mileage run forum) would be overrun & harder to read with all those mouseovers. Personally, I'm not a fan of mouseovers & I think it's worth the extra 15-30 seconds to google the airport code & find out what it is instead of having all those mouseovers...
I would tend to agree with this, but don't forget that the side effect of expecting people to search (at least in the MR forum) is the recent trend of posters making snarky replies because someone didn't provide the city name instead of the airport code.

Mike
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