That's the excuse I hear most often, but let's face it, the time you save is minuscule while it costs the reader dearly. Imgne hw mch tm u cud save if u used evn mor typng shrtcts. Taking things to an extreme, yes, but the point is, if the reader has to think in order to understand what's written, your time saved is another's time wasted. It takes me approximately three seconds to type Dallas Ft. Worth and Oklahoma City but would take me a few minutes to look up their code.

Looking up the code - the last resort, obviously. That takes time that could be saved by having the machine do it for me; thus the request I've put forth. As for eventually remembering them; no. I've already forgotten the code for an airport I used frequently last year. Now I'm too busy dealing with ELIS, ALT, CDS, CC, BOM and scores of other TLA's that I'll soon have to purge from my memory after finishing my current project.

For folks that spend their waking lives skittering about the country, I have no doubt that the airport codes are second nature for you. However, I, and many like me, tend to do frequent trips between a handful of airports and the codes of the others are simply letters with no meaning. If the site provided the feature I've requested, I'm quite sure it would help a lot of people.

Of course, it would also help if folks stopped using bizarre acronyms for just about everything else too!