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Skipness One Echo
Easy to learn, that's what google's for, ICAO codes are also descriptive so OMDB is clearly not in the same country as EIDW.
Sort of. If you see enough of them then the pattern becomes self-evident, but I wouldn't say they are descriptive beyond telling you that two different airports are in different, regionally arbitrary jurisdictions. IATA codes are better in some ways but worse in others.
Frankly I think technology will eliminate the need to even have codes printed on bag tags to read before we come up with a way to get people to remember codes properly
