Easily confused airports?
Sep 17, 2014, 7:53 am
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Frankfurt...
This summer after 20 days driving through Germany, I was returning the rental car in Frankfurt Main with just enought time to catch my plane when I discovered it was Frankfort Mannheim...
Frankfurt Mannheim is not Frankfurt Main...
Frankfurt Mannheim is not Frankfurt Main...
Sep 17, 2014, 8:35 am
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SLC Salt Lake City
SCL Santiago de Chile
-> easy to mix the codes!
and
DKR Dakar, Senegal
DAC Dhaka, Bangladesh
-> easy to mix due to pronounciation, esp. if you book flight over the phone on TK and EK (who serve both airports, I guess)
SCL Santiago de Chile
-> easy to mix the codes!
and
DKR Dakar, Senegal
DAC Dhaka, Bangladesh
-> easy to mix due to pronounciation, esp. if you book flight over the phone on TK and EK (who serve both airports, I guess)
Last edited by warakorn; Sep 17, 2014 at 8:42 am
Sep 17, 2014, 10:13 am
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Or, if you revert to the old name you can certainly fly between Amsterdam and New Amsterdam nonstop.
Sep 17, 2014, 11:10 am
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For reference, here's a related thread from 2012:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...rong-city.html
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http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...rong-city.html
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Sep 17, 2014, 4:12 pm
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Fayetteville, Arkansas (goes as such with some airline schedules instead of its official Northwest Arkansas Regional) and Fayetteville, North Carolina could be pretty easily confused.
Wichita Falls, Texas and Wichita, Kansas.
Wichita Falls, Texas and Wichita, Kansas.
Sep 17, 2014, 5:32 pm
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That's a strange screw-up; neither the (Romanized) city name nor the airport code has an L or an O in it.
ETA: It just occurred to me that the proper name for CGQ is Longjia because this is the small town near Changchun where the airport actually is. It is actually common to name Chinese airports in this fashion just like Western countries tend to name airports after dead people. But, in both cases, people generally don't (I want to say never) enter official airport names into web forms when their goal is to actually travel to city X; its city name or IATA code... that's all the predictive text programming people need to think about.
ETA: It just occurred to me that the proper name for CGQ is Longjia because this is the small town near Changchun where the airport actually is. It is actually common to name Chinese airports in this fashion just like Western countries tend to name airports after dead people. But, in both cases, people generally don't (I want to say never) enter official airport names into web forms when their goal is to actually travel to city X; its city name or IATA code... that's all the predictive text programming people need to think about.
I would say more generally if you're going to be one of the world's largest airlines and exclusively fly out of a city referred to as LON then you might as well make sure people who type in LON get the city you fly from.Sadly, my expectations of user interface design are way ahead of my local carrier. I've been whining about this to them for two years at least and gotten nowhere.
Sep 18, 2014, 3:21 pm
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Sep 18, 2014, 6:09 pm
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Sep 24, 2014, 3:01 pm
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We'd flown out of JFK, so it wasn't the most unreasonable thing (it took me a few glances to note that it said 'BUF' not 'BUR'), but someone was going to have a bad day in Buffalo...
Sep 25, 2014, 12:03 am
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Sep 25, 2014, 12:17 am
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One can almost safely make this assumption IF the baggage tag was generated by a computer. This was not the way things worked when I was a kid, and still isn't at some airports in remote places.
Sep 25, 2014, 1:33 am
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Years ago, when baggage tags were often hand-written, I arrived (on Braniff) at Panama City, Panama (as was intended) - my luggage landed at Panama City, Florida. Took three days to reunite me with my clothes.