ClassicalGal - If IAH is the big symphony orchestra hall, and Hobby is for Chamber music, what does that make WN?

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(couldn't resist!)

As for Australian codes, in the main they make sense...

SYD=Sydney
MEL=Melbourne
BNE=Brisbane
ADL=Adelaide
HBA=Hobart
PER=Perth
ASP=Alice Springs
DRW=Darwin

regional can get kida interesting.. there's DPS (Dempassar, but everyone knows it as Bali), and let's not forget CGK - Jakata!
How about KIX (Osaka).

SGN(Ho Chi Minh) at least makes sense historically (Saigon).

All the Indian ones are out of date now due to the changes (sort of like LED)

eg: BOM (Mumbai)
MAA (Madras)

etc

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RichardMEL, UA 1K
A Star Alliance Member.

[This message has been edited by RichardMEL (edited 05-28-2001).]

What about the "consolidated" airport codes used by travelocity and maybe others? I know a few of them:

NYC - all New York airports
LON - all London airports
PAR - all Paris airports

Do these show up anywhere else?

Even New York's public transportation webpage gets one of its hometown airport codes mixed up:

"LaGuardia Airport (LAG)"

heh heh. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif I like this punny version much better.
http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/service/airport.htm

STO- All Stockholm Airports

CHI - All Chicago Airports

WAS - All Washington DC airports

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Regards,
- Anna

This article contains a lot of interesting minutiae on airport codes:
http://www.skygod.com/asstd/abc.html

Thanks for the link, MagMile. Interesting information.

Sometimes, smaller airports' codes relate to the Counties in which they are located:
CLM - Port Angeles, Washington is in Clallam County.
FCA - Kalispell, Montana is Flathead County Airport.

Sorry for the stupidity, but a friend of mine a long time ago who was applying for a job with an airline gave me this analogy:

BNA: B**BS No A**, = Dolly Parton, = Nashville

She learned all of the codes, got a job, and married one of the 1St class passengers, who happens to be a big star in the world of Central American music; I think she's pretty wealthy now.