MDT -- Harrisburg International Airport, however it's in Middletown, PA, and I believe MDT is for Middletown Dept of Transportation, which operates or used to, as they are forming a regional airport authority.

My favorite:

SUX = Sioux City, IA (If you've ever been there, the airport name is no surprise).

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I thought BNA stood for Better Nashville Airport?

IAH International Airport Houston, now known as George Bush IAH, as opposed to the original Houston Airport
HOU Houston Hobby

>Which just goes to show that politics and city names may change but IATA stays the same.

Except, of course, for JFK

You know, it's only a matter of time before airport authorities sell a name to a corporation just like a ballpark or golf tournament. Then you could have airport codes matching stock tickers. Think of it, AOL- The America On-Line San Francisco International Airport. That would get Silicon Valley-ites going!

Then you could think of selling a name to an airline: The Delta Cincinnati Int'l Airport. Now that would get the feds thinking about monopolies here and there....

P.S. What was JFK's code/name before it was renamed for Kennedy? Idlewild, was it?

Wasen't Denver's new airport DIA at the beginning? (Denver International Airport)

I have often wondered how Sioux Gateway Airport got its name given its proximity to a leading computer production center.

One airport code that I have always found appealing is FUN, for Funafuti on Tuvalua. How often does a flight end in FUN?

FAT....Fresno Air Terminal

>What was JFK's code/name before it was renamed for Kennedy? Idlewild, was it?

Yep, Idlewild. IDW, I think, but I'm not certain. It sticks in the back of my mind I once had a luggage tag that read NYC.

C'mon - Someone here's got to be older than me!

I remember it being referred to as DIA but don't remember if that was the code. Of course now it is the same as Stapleton's was.

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MSY in New Orleans stands for Moisant Stock Yard, which is what it was before it was an airport.

The old airport code for the old New York International Airport (Idlewild) used to be IDL. After President Kennedy's assassination in 1963 the airport and identifier were named after him.

IDL still soldiers on... it's now the airport identifier for Indianola, Mississippi.

When Washington Dulles was being built, it was planned that the identifier was to be DIA; as you can see it would have caused massive confusion with National Airport, whose code is DCA, That's why it's now IAD.

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I always assumed that the X at the end (i.e. PDX) indicated international airport.

Is that true or just something I imagined one day and thereafter believed to be true?