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BLI-Flyer Sep 16, 2007 8:20 am
Originally Posted by bdjohns1 (Post 8398501)
Fresno is FAT = Fresno Air Terminal
EAT = Wenatchee, WA where a lot of apples are grown, as in EAT Washington Apples. An itinerary from Wenatchee to Fresno is EAT FAT.

JerryFF Sep 16, 2007 10:19 am
Originally Posted by El Cochinito (Post 8398497)
A very thorough explanation of the entymology of airport codes and other aviation identifiers can be found here.
Great site - thanks for the post. Just to be picky, it's etymology. Entomology is the study of insects.

ibor132 Sep 16, 2007 8:51 pm
Originally Posted by discoverCSG (Post 8408860)

Some airport codes take the city or airport name and use another letter, often X, to fill it out: DXB (Dubai), LAX(Los Angeles), PDX (Portland, Oregon), PWM (Portland, ME).
PWM actully comes from the previous name of the airport, Portland-Westbrook Munipical.

timothyp_787 Sep 17, 2007 10:10 am
PHF - Newport News / Williamsburg Int'l (International? Really?) - is the former Patrick Henry Field.

xamsx Sep 17, 2007 10:29 am
Originally Posted by El Cochinito (Post 8398497)
A very thorough explanation of the entymology of airport codes and other aviation identifiers can be found here.

Excellent article. Thanks for the link.

driscj Sep 17, 2007 10:48 am
Originally Posted by tjl (Post 8398893)
Sometimes, the English letter spelling of a place may be changed, but the airport code remains a vestige of the old spelling:
Or the politics:!

LED= St. Petersburg (Leningrad)

Flaflyer Sep 17, 2007 1:53 pm
Originally Posted by driscj (Post 8417051)
Or the politics:!
LED= St. Petersburg (Leningrad)
Or not the politics, showing the IATA airport codes stay the same while politicians rename places.

Vietnam can honor a politico by renaming a place Ho Chi Minh City but your bag tag still says SGN.

Efrem Sep 17, 2007 2:14 pm
Sometimes the airport that serves a city is named for the town it's actually in (or another town in its immediate vicinity). One example is Cincinnati, which derives its code of CVG from Covington, Kentucky.

iflyfish Sep 17, 2007 2:38 pm
BDL (Hartford/Springfield):
In 1941, state of Connecticut gave land to United States government; an airbase was constructed as part of the World War II defensive. On August 21, 1941, Lt. Eugene M. Bradley, 24, from Antler, Oklahoma, dies in a training exercise and becomes the first fatality at the new airbase.
In 1942 the War Department formally named the airbase "Bradley Field," as a tribute to the flier's memory.
When the airbase reverted to the state and became a commercial airport, the name remained.

Heidelberg Barbie Sep 18, 2007 1:27 pm
I can't believe all the wonderful trivia I have learned from all the posters. :-:

L-1011 Sep 18, 2007 2:30 pm
Originally Posted by BLI-Flyer (Post 8411543)
EAT = Wenatchee, WA where a lot of apples are grown, as in EAT Washington Apples. An itinerary from Wenatchee to Fresno is EAT FAT.
So if that flight stops in Seattle, WA you would EAT SEA FAT?

How many other "sentences" like that can be put together from a fictionary itinerary?


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