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Old 5th Sep 2009, 23:37
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For all that people have a go at M O'L, both Glasgow Prestwick and Frankfurt Hahn were so called long before Ryanair got to them. Prestwick has used that name, despite there also being a mainstream Glasgow airport as well, since the 1940s - here it is as such in a BOAC timetable from 1960:

http://www.timetableimages.com/ttima...60/ba60-02.jpg

Most extraordinary airport names are typically in the USA, where you will find the "Fifi Fitzenberger III Memorial Airport", or its equivalent, dotted round the country. Once memory of Fifi dulls after a few years it becomes something else. Likewise the US specialises in "International" airports which have no international schedules, and sometimes no schedules at all ! Apparently a customs officer pops in from time to time and so they call themselves in this manner.
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