¿You know Cóhow they are designated, thaté they are and for whaté serves the famous cóthree letter sayings airports? Its origin is very interesting and I will tell you about it here.í. Photo Andre m.
A new curiosity let's review the dífrom today, which has as its protagonist the airports of the world and a cóI say made up of three letters that identify and differentiate them.
Today we are not going to talk about the cófour-letter words that are from ICAO, but surely más at once oríthis someone say:
My flight leaves BOG and arrives at MIA.
¿But whaté It's BOG and MIA? His CóI say airport designators created by THERE IT IS based on the resolutionón 763, spaghettién known as location identifierón, cóI say stationón simply location identifierón.
It is cóI say three letters, we always see it in the luggage lockers that you check and send to the airplane hold.ón where the final destination airport is shown, on airport screens and alsoén in airline ticket purchasing systemsílines and distributors.
¿Cóhow the c are assignedóHoney?
Taking into account that there are más de 17 thousand possibilities to join three letters of the alphabet, now the cósayings are assigned based on positionón geográfica, name of the airport or first letters of the word where it is located and that has not been used previously or any close reference:
- MEX – México
- SIN – Singapore
- GIG – Rio de Janeiro
- MAD – Madrid
But this lólogic is not always fulfilled and there are other examples:
- SCL – Santiago de Chile
- GYE – Guayaquil
- TOWER CRANE – Sao Paulo Guarulhos
- JFK – New York John F Kennedy
- LAX – The Angels
- VVI – Viru Viru
The idea of the cóWhat I say is to differentiate airports and that these are not repeated so as not to generate complications in the operation.ón and distributionón, that's why you never seeás two airports with the same cóI say IATA, the same thing that happens with the aerosolsíneas and his cóHoney, but what they are two letters.
There are endless variations and special cases, for example constructionón of new airports within the same city or name changes that may or may not lead to a change of cóI say IATA:
- UIO – Quito (new airport, same cóI say)
- AEP – airport (airport within the same city)
- BHM – Birmingham–Shuttlesworth (There are three airports in this city and the úlast letter)
¿You use the cóI say three letters to refer to a city or airport?
RIO,It was traditionally the code of Rio de Janeiro,but then it was decided to differentiate the airports and then,They appointed GIG for Galeao and SDU for Santos Dumont.
Buenos Aires,it was BUE,but then they differentiated AEP,for Aeroparque and EZE for Ezeiza
NYC,It was New York.,but given the need to differentiate airports,JFK was chosen,for Kennedy,LGA,for La Guardia and EWR for Newark and so on.
Thanks for your contribution Osvaldo!
How can the Loja airport be interpreted with the acronym LOH??
It's one of those mysteries of life, that only the aeronautical authority should know. Perhaps with J some kind of conflict was generated in the IATA system.
very interesting, I always had that doubt, but it seems that more could be explained, for example GYE of Guayaquil, because the E ? -Ecuador ?. or the MEC of Manta. also says that with 3 letters you can have 17k possible combinations 😲
Hola Christian, In those cases such as GYE or MEC, the situation occurs that other codes that were looking for are the designated one and are already occupied.. So calculating what they wanted to do we have: GY – Guayaquil / E – Ecuador in the case of M – Manta / EC – Ecuador.
The note does not explain or say what you had promised with the title.
It seems you don't explain it because you don't know!!!!!!!
There is no point in advertising and not fulfilling
«los códigos son asignados en base a posición geográfica, nombre del aeropuerto o primeras letras de la palabra donde se ubica y que no haya sido usado previamente o alguna referencia cercana». Does it seem that there is no reading comprehension or am I lacking in explaining more??
And how do you say those three letters? And when it does not match what criteria is taken?
Alternatives are being sought, let's say the city is called Patito, look for options like PTT, but that airport already exists and so on until you find one available.
Hi Nicolas, as Marcelo says, you never say how those lyrics are decided.
I understand that MEX is from Mexico because of its geographical location. but GYE? LAX? (I've always wanted to know why it's called that)
JFK, it's because of the name?
TOWER CRANE?
I'm from chile, but why scl?
indicas que «son asignados en base a posición geográfica, nombre del aeropuerto o primeras letras de la palabra donde se ubica y que no haya sido usado previamente o alguna referencia cercana», but what is the order? geographical position first?
hard to understand, but this report does not clarify much.
I follow you on networks, keep it up Nicholas! I like your content!
Greetings!
Hello Agustin, there is no exact rule of which goes first, but I can tell you that an airport enters the registration request and based on that the availability is seen, until you find one available.
I imagine that SCL is like this: S for Santiago and CL is how Chile is designated in internet domains. Chile is. cl
Precisely, that's how it is!
But you don't say how those three letters are decided.
Which 3 letters?
Exact. It was the purpose of the note and it does not mention it, just give a few examples and that was it.
Thanks for your comment.
Mine is CUE from Cuenca but right now I'm living in Quito for a while so I guess my temporary code is UIO and I love it😍😍😍
Yes, it's cool to tell cities by airport codes 😀
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