OT: Airport Codes
motorhead
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In a recent thread by farmerart, he was at YEG. I know a lot of airport codes, but I must admit I had to look that one up to determine his location.
But I can't find or why it's named that.
Some airport codes are obvious. ATL
Others are more obscure
Orlando is MCO for the old McCoy Air Force base
O'Hare in Chicago is ORD for the old Orchard Field
Cincinnati is CVG because the airport is across the river in Covington, Kentucky
Can anyone help with YEG?
But I can't find or why it's named that.
Some airport codes are obvious. ATL
Others are more obscure
Orlando is MCO for the old McCoy Air Force base
O'Hare in Chicago is ORD for the old Orchard Field
Cincinnati is CVG because the airport is across the river in Covington, Kentucky
Can anyone help with YEG?
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During winter drilling season I spend way too much time at YZF and YFS.
Only really tiny, rarely used airports in Canada have a code beginning with a letter other than 'Y'. I have no clue how this arrangement came to pass.
The only one of those codes that I just noted that makes any sense to me is YFS..........Fort Simpson in the North West Territories.
The Canadian cities abbreviations seem to be named differently, than the U.S.
When you see an "X" at the end of a city's name, such as LAX-Los Angeles, PDX--Portland, and JAX--Jacksonville, that indicates that the first two letters are sufficient to identify that city. But, a third letter is necessary to fill out the three-letter code.
I'm surprised no one looked up this website:
http://www.world-airport-codes.com/
Another handy website I use for ANY acronym or abbreviation I don't know is: http://www.acronymfinder.com/
However, for TUSCL stuff I first consult:
http://www.urbandictionary.com
That may be true for some cities, and it may have been true for all cities at one time, but it can't be applied universally now.
Louisville has two airports that I know of. LOU is the one at Bowman Field, and SDF is Louisville International Airport.
Bowman Field (LOU) is a small field near the National Guard facility. It's mostly non-commercial with short runways unsuitable for anything but small aircraft, but may have been here first, if the name is any indication.
SDF (Standiford Field) is what everyone here means when they say "the airport."
https://www.tuscl.net/c.php?CID=223
I knew someone who worked in Fresno for five years and referred to it as, "Fresburgh."
(Of course the fact that that town's state university was a rival to where I went to college, has nothing to do with my opinion of Fresburgh, er, uh, Fresno. There are no strip clubs in the town where I went to college.)
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Some try to come as close as possible either to the airport name or city, but when they can't then a close sounding name may be used, or just a close random one. You can think of it as a hash table, with a very complex and screwy has function, with a size of 46656 locations and no overflow.