Lost Aerodrome Identities
I don't know if this is an old thread or not but nowadays airports, aerodromes, airfields seem all to have lost their original identities.
Gone are the names like Ringway, Castle Donnington, Abbotsinch, Aldergrove, Ronaldsway, Roborough, Staverton etc.
When and why did this happen? It now gets very confusing when a city is served by more than one airport, eg Belfast, Bristol, London, Paris or Berlin. When the old names were used there was never any confusion. Now Ryanair for example offers a flight to "Milan" when they actually go to Bergamo. The same applies when they refer to Barcelona but the flight actually lands at Girona.
Call me nostalgic, but it would be interesting to list the old names alongside their new ones and see how many of the new names either mislead or are duplicated, eg. London (Luton), London (Stansted) - neither really are "in" London....
MB