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ICAO website: www. Oh, and in case you were wondering… there is no WTF airport. I know. During the early years of aviation, an airport was considered any open field with a strong wind, and no formal identifiers were used, or even necessary. So how did they decide which letters to use for airport identifiers, and why do some of them seem unintentionally encrypted? Many airports simply use common sense.

There are those that use their first three letters. P aul MSP. Codes in cities with more multiple words can practically write themselves. Codes are sometimes worked out using both the city and the name of the airport itself.

For the record, the U. Many of these come from a designation code given to a former or historical name. Politics aside, sometimes things work a little backwards Washington DC — including its airports.

Hobby airport, and with the mile rule in effect, the new airport was given the code IAH , for I ntercontinental A irport H ouston.

Some codes have even inspired songs written about them In one case, the song was partially written by the code itself. YYZ is the airport identification code of Toronto Pearson, an international airport located near the hometown of the band Rush. The band received inspiration for a new rhythm using an unusual time pattern as Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson — a licensed aircraft pilot — flew the band into the YYZ airport. Tap along at your desk, or if you have two left thumbs, check it on YouTube.

Like Hotels without a 13th floor, Airports can be just as superstitious. There are also planes without a 13th row, going from row 12 to row 14 instead. Then there are times when airport codes have been used in the face of superstition, telling mysticism to go to HEL and back. Confused by all of the aviation phrases and data terms used in our database? We have created this quick guide to explain some of the terminology found on our airport pages.

The reason that codes are used to identify countries and regions is that these will stay the same, no matter what language is used, as names of locations can sometimes become lost in translation.

Further reading : iso. Numeric codes used to identify geopolitical areas such as countries, states, provinces, and territories or possessions of certain countries.

Further reading : transtats. Further reading : icao. These 3 digit codes act as a location identifier for each airport around the world. Further reading : iata. These are again used as location identifiers.

Further reading : faa. Although replaced as a time standard by atomic time UTC , GMT is still widely regarded as the standard time zone in many countries, including some in Africa and Western Europe. Co-ordinated Universal Time UTC is measured using atomic clocks and is regarded as a time standard , rather than a time zone.