here is another
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~abuckley/airports.html

Thank you!

Thanks! It works exactly as I described in my original post! I like it!

Thanks - just did, it's great!

i have problems with the airport list.
when i click on install on firefox it doesnt install the airports

any hint how to do it?

dp

If you were using the item my post referred to, it's not for Firefox. It's a widget for Mac OS 10.4. Double-click the downolad to decompress it, then double-click the widget icon to start the installation. It will ask you if you want to install it or not. If you choose to keep it, it will switch to Dashboard and give you the same choice again. Click "keep" and drag it to any convenient place on your Dashboard screen.

(If you were referring to something else and quoted my post inadvertently, I can't help you.)

I do have a Mac with OSX 10.4.9 This widget was working fine for me until I downloaded Safari 3.0 beta. Now, superficially there seems to be no relation between Safari (Apple's web browser) and a Dashboard widget, but I hear that Safari changes many other things.

Is anybody aware of this problem, a solution, or indeed other entirely different solutions for quickly looking up airline/airport codes?

Could we add 2-letter airline codes into one of these, please?

It's broken for me too...until I figure out why, the only workaround I can suggest is to downgrade back to the previous version of Safari. Sorry about that.

Assuming you have OS X 10.4 and are not running the Safari beta, my widget already has 2-letter airline codes.

Thank you for your effort. I'll wait a little and then decide. An obvious but naive question is, can we channel it through firefox or camino? Probably not, but if it is just a little web page, maybe we can edit some file somewhere to use another browser.

[/QUOTE]Assuming you have OS X 10.4 and are not running the Safari beta, my widget already has 2-letter airline codes.[/QUOTE]

Indeed. However, it would be nice to do the reverse look up, ie, find the codes for La Crosse, WI or Jet Airways.

Wild shot in the dark... OP probably expects everyone to know what UCSF stands for?

University of California, San Francisco?

Dashboard will only use WebKit (Safari's engine), so this can't be done and still have it be a widget.

I agree. I think I may as well just rewrite the thing from the ground up to do this (when I can find some time). It's not like it was a monumental effort anyway.

That's the thing... if I don't know an airport code, I just type in "XXX airport" in the Google search box of my Firefox window, hit enter, see results, then hit backspace to come back to the thread.

Total time < 5 seconds.

Or even faster (but less accurate)... double click the airport code, then drag to the search box. Total time < 3 seconds.

This is why I when people complain about using codes. Did we stop teaching self-sufficiency in school?

the OP was under the impression that *only* conventional, 3-letter codes (e.g., ORD, IAD, LGA, etc.) were used s/he would be unfortunately inexperienced of the brutal realities.
One sees "CHI" as in "Chicago" but for either ORD or Midway , "WAS" for Reagan or Dulles, etc. and NYC for EWR, LGA, JFK and from what I hear, as far afield as BWI.
Egad!
Oh, the horror, since some serious confusion can result.
Worse, my credit card statement has an odd mix ---LAX CHI YTO--of conventional and non- codes. All the more curiously because NO-one conected with any tix I charge uses those #$%^ codes, not aircarrier reservations staff, not airport staff, and certainly not well-seasoned FT-ers.
Sooooo, WHERE do they come from?
(But I don't really want to know.)