Revision as of 11:09, 27 May 2005

Should note that three-letter location codes in the United States are set by the FAA (and likely similarly in other countries by their regulatory agencies) and not by IATA. However, the code assignments are usually coordinated to reduce confusion (i.e., IATA codes are usually not duplicated by FAA codes, but not all three-letter FAA codes are also IATA codes). There are also four-letter codes (different from four-letter ICAO codes); the form of the location code is determined by its status and level of activity. See FAAO 7350.7K for more details. 18.24.0.120 03:16, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

The codes do not seem to be alphanumeric, merely alphabetical. I can see why 1,0 would want to be avoided, but 2-9 could be used. 26^3 means there are only 17576 possible codes, so with 20000 airports there are more than 323 overlaps? Any examples of the codes that do overlap? --/Mat 15:52, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Perhaps CBG is one, in practice at least: in the US it's largely used to represent Cambridge, Minnesota although IATA seems only to have allocated it to Cambridge, England. See my note at Talk:List_of_airports:_C for examples. Marnanel 00:08, Apr 11, 2004 (UTC)

dead link

Burgundavia reverted my edit of the external link

http://www.world-airport-codes.com/

yesterday as well as today I tried to acess this URL, from different computers. I always got the following error message:

The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.world-airport-codes.com/

The following error was encountered:

Unable to determine IP address from host name for www.world-airport-codes.com The dnsserver returned:

Server Failure: The name server was unable to process this query. This means that:

The cache was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the URL. 
Check if the address is correct.

Does this qualify for my statement on the wikipedia page that the link is dead???

This seems like a local dns issue with you, as I can access the website fine. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 10:21, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

Agree, works fine for me. Bollar 15:56, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

=

The article on Airport ABC's incorrectly states that Chicago O'Hare (ORD) was originally named Orchard Field. It was originally named Orchard Depot.

http://www.ipsn.org/ohare.html