A way to search for airport codes
 

Here is just a crazy idea I had.

I used to seach for "ELP" to see if anyone was crazy enough to venture into this city, but I am not able to do so anymore.

And from moderating OMNI in the past, I was used to seeing posts like

The **** sometimes come from the censor, a list of words that once a post is submitted, are replaced by those convenient *****

Could the same be done for airport codes, if I enter "ELP" the censor, replaces it with "AIRPORT_ELP" or "AIR_ELP", or something to that extent?

I am not saying to make it retroactive, but that would make it possible, transparent, and consistent for everyone to be able to search for airport codes.

Anyways, just a thought ;)

But would that hairport_ELP? Airport_FRAnkly I airport_HAVe my doubts.

The censor doesn't replace partial words ;)

I can put jhhsoifdkjsdkjshitkjfdsoioifd and the four letter word in there is not replaced ;)

shitake

So I see. Hmm still leaves an issue for some airport codes that are also words, such as

ADD
AFT
AIM
ALL
BAY
BEG
BET

and airport codes that are also a common abbreviation, such as

ATC
BIS

All I'll say is s......ing and S....horpe

A special case was made for the four letter word jfe tried, because it occurs commonly in place names in Japan

hcjzhckjhzxkjhczx....dajdkjaskldja

Hmmmm...... maybe this won't work

Oh well, it was a crazy idea ;)

We could all switch to ICAO codes. Much harder to remember though.