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Old Sep 13, 2007 | 2:25 pm
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Sometimes, the English letter spelling of a place may be changed, but the airport code remains a vestige of the old spelling:

PEK = Beijing (Peking)
KWL = Guilin (Kweilin)
BOM = Mumbai (Bombay)

Or the name of the airport changes, but the code references the old name:

ORD = Chicago O'Hare (Orchard Field)
YFB = Iqaluit (Frobisher Bay)
SDA = Bagdad (Saddam Hussein)
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