Originally Posted by
P160
I'm a retired NATS Engineer and our references to airports were not the same codes as used by the ATCO's. I do now remember when London City was in the planning stage it could not have the designator LCA as it was already allocated, the NDB had its ident as LCY not LCA as requested.
To be fair, LCA is commonly used as an acronym (not a code) for the airport by local councils, the CAA and indeed by the airport itself, in contexts where use of an IATA code would just be confusing.
But probably best not used in the PPRuNe ATC Forum.
