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May 22, 2001 | 8:16 am

#16

kempis

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Originally posted by LAOCA:
NRT Tokyo
DPS Bali
GRU Sao Paulo
GIG Rio
MCO Orlando
CDG Paris
LIN Milan (or MXP)
ARN Stockholm

You're right. Very easy. What's the matter with these people!

ARN=Arlanda which is the name of Stockholm Airport.

May 22, 2001 | 8:37 am

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ScottC

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Originally posted by married 2 miles:
Thanks for the replies. I have a Psion, and enough memory that I would download the codes. When I went to the site, I could not find the proper file to download. Where is it located (the group) and what is it called?

Thanks again.

My mistake, I haven't had a Psion for ages, try this page, it still has the link
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/shaun.mcgill/FG%20(Time).htm

May 22, 2001 | 12:47 pm

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elsas

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NRT Tokyo: Narita

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May 22, 2001 | 12:54 pm

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Merry

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I know this is somewhat oblique, but I can't help myself from sharing this.., last year a colleague of mine booked his family on a LHR-ORD flight for their holidays.

He thought ORD was Orlando!

Nick

May 22, 2001 | 1:20 pm

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Even the airline people get it wrong sometimes -- when a CSR was trying to find my record yesterday, she asked if I had flown from Los Angeles to Kansas City. I told her I hadn't, which confused things a little more until I told her we were coming from Orlando... It took me a few minutes to realize why she would confuse the two (MCO vs MCI)

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May 22, 2001 | 7:47 pm

#21

summerdawn

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Want to be confused? Try these on for size

SJC - San Jose California
SJO - San Jose Costa Rica
SJD - San Jose del Cabo (Cabo San Lucas Mex)
SJT - San Angelo Texas

or

Roc - Rochester, NY
RST - Rochester, MN

No wonder CSRs get confused, especially the new ones.

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May 22, 2001 | 9:27 pm

#22

JerryFF

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A few more than can be confusing -

JAC - Jackson Hole WY
JAN - Jackson, MS
MKL - Jackson, TN
JAX - Jacksonville, FL
OAJ - Jacksonville, NC

JHW - Jamestown, NY
JMS - Jamestown, ND

CSG - Columbus, GA
CMH - Columbus, OH
UBS - Columbus, MS
COU - Columbia, MO
CAE - Columbia, SC

May 23, 2001 | 12:16 am

#23

Tango

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How about SCL and SLC?

Or FAT and EAT?

May 23, 2001 | 1:37 am

#24

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ORD = Orchard, the original name of the airport, before it was renamed for WW2 hero Butch O'Hare

CVG = Covington, the town in Kentucky in which CVG actually sits

MCI = similar to CVG: the airport is actually in Missouri City. and not so ironic about Sprint, since MCI and Sprint are one company now.

May 23, 2001 | 4:04 am

#25

ahrz

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Some other "easy to remember" destinations :

YUL : Montreal
YYC : Calgary
YYZ : Toronto (very easy...)
IAH : Houston

MXP : Milan
OTP : Bucarest
SVO : Moscow
ESB : Ankara
FCO : Roma
EZE : Buenos Aires

ABC : Peking

ACQ : Cape town

May 23, 2001 | 4:15 am

#26

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Hmm, ABC is Peking? Thought Beijing (aka Peking) is PEK.

Seems that a lot of the confusion stems from codes coming form the name of the airport, instead of the name of the city. E.g., SVO is Shermetyevo, to distinguish it from Domodyevo, Moscow's other airport. And IAH of course is Intercontinental Airport Houston.

May 23, 2001 | 8:44 am

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Pynchonesque: Missouri City is in Clay County, not Platte County where the Kansas City International Airport is located (referred to locally as KCI). The initials MCI stand for Mid-Continent International. The original airport downtown is MKC: Muncipal Kansas City airport, used now for general aviation. Also, I believe the SPRINT and MCI telecom deal is off.

Correct about SVO (Sheremetevo, to the Northwest of town) and DME (Domodedevo, to the Southeast of town). Moscow has two other airports as well: Vnukovo (VKO) and what I believe is the now-mothballed Bykovo.

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May 23, 2001 | 9:58 am

#28

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Quote:

Originally posted by pynchonesque:

Seems that a lot of the confusion stems from codes coming form the name of the airport, instead of the name of the city. E.g., SVO is Shermetyevo, to distinguish it from Domodyevo, Moscow's other airport. And IAH of course is Intercontinental Airport Houston.

IAH was recently renamed "Bush Intercontinental Airport," after the former President, but nobody here calls it that, except the TV news anchors. We just call it "the big airport" as opposed to HOU (William P. Hobby Airport, named after a former Texas governor, and now undergoing massive renovation).

May 23, 2001 | 11:22 am

#29

kempis

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Quote:

Originally posted by ahrz:
Some other "easy to remember" destinations :

YUL : Montreal
YYC : Calgary
YYZ : Toronto (very easy...)
IAH : Houston

MXP : Milan
OTP : Bucarest
SVO : Moscow
ESB : Ankara
FCO : Roma
EZE : Buenos Aires

ABC : Peking

ACQ : Cape town

ABC is actually Albacete in Spain.

May 23, 2001 | 6:43 pm

#30

Ord26

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I think Orlando (MCO) used to be McCoy Air Force Base.

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