The airport codes - background
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The airport codes - background
Found this article that provided some interesting background concerning the TLC (three letter codes) used by IATA. Even though many of you use the FLC's.
Does anybody have a good set of translations from one to the other ???
Does anybody have a good set of translations from one to the other ???
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Interesting article, I always wondered how Toronto got be "YYZ" (check out the RUSH song one day guys...). I spent 2 years flying into "CGK" thinking why isn't this JKT or something before I cottoned on to the fact that it is at an area known as Cengkareng!
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K after Kittyhawk, site of the Wright Brothers' first flight.
Gofer,
I have an Excel table listing ICAO Codes, IATA Codes and airport name. It can be searched or sorted by any of those categories to get the other two.
I got it with charge calculation software from from the Central Route Charges Office (Eurocontrol) website, some years ago. There may be an up-to-date version there now.
It has 7781 entries, not all with both ICAO and IATA codes, of course.
PM if you want a copy.
I have an Excel table listing ICAO Codes, IATA Codes and airport name. It can be searched or sorted by any of those categories to get the other two.
I got it with charge calculation software from from the Central Route Charges Office (Eurocontrol) website, some years ago. There may be an up-to-date version there now.
It has 7781 entries, not all with both ICAO and IATA codes, of course.
PM if you want a copy.
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K and N (and part of the As) are the radio call-sign blocks assigned to the USA. Canada has part of the C block (and others). Aircraft registration prefixes come from these call-sign blocks.
This might explain the K prefix for US airports and C for Canada, but fails completely elsewhere.
This might explain the K prefix for US airports and C for Canada, but fails completely elsewhere.