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Old 10th June 2006 | 00:40
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seacue
 
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Responding to the renaming suggestion for KIAD:

Tacking person's names onto airports has become very popular here in the colonies. Just one person's name is no longer enough:

KATL Atlanta is now Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

KMSY Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. Apparently it was originally name for another person, "Moissant".

KBWI Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. It was originally named Friendship Airport.

KDCA is Ronald Reagan Washington National AIrport, as we all know.

KSNA John Wayne-Orange County Airport. I once asked an airline employee if a flight went to Santa Anna - blank stare. Surely KSNA is named for Santa Anna, where it is located.


I now return you to UK airport names.......
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