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Know your airport code and have fun too!

There's a reasonable explanation behind airport codes

Newsroom March 31 11:20

Every airport has a unique three-letter IATA code. Some make sense if you know the city or the name of the airport and others, well, what the heck? Knowing the code of each airport isn’t useful, but it sure can be fun… A site has been created giving details about each code.

So far there are 361 airports from 89 countries and 339 photographs. To contribute, CLICK HERE

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