Top Document: misc.transport.air-industry posting guidelines FAQ Previous Document: HOW TO POST TO MISC.TRANSPORT.AIR-INDUSTRY Next Document: RELATED NEWSGROUPS See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Each airport is assigned a three-letter abbreviation, and each airline has a two character (letters and numbers are used) abbreviation. Regular readers to the group recognize an amazingly large number of these codes, and regular posters use the codes liberally in their postings. As a rule, you should limit the number of airport/airline codes that you use in your postings. If you wish to use a code that is not widely understood, then define the code when you first use it. For example, instead of: RG will begin non-stop service between JFK and GPS on July 13th. The flight will depart JFK at 3:00pm and arrive GPS at 3:02pm. you should say: Varig (RG) will begin non-stop service between JFK and the Galapagos Islands (GPS) on July 13th. The flight will depart JFK at 3:00pm and arrive GPS at 3:02pm. Note that JFK (New York's Kennedy airport) is a common enough abbreviation to probably not need explanation. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) provides a search engine for locating airports by three-letter code or by city name: http://www.iata.org/codes/ The Airport Search Engine is a bit more powerful. It lets you search for airports by IATA abbreviation, city, or country: http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~un9v/atm/ase.html You can search for airline (two-letter and three-letter) codes at the IATA web site. http://www.iata.org/members.htm Another list of the most common airline codes is available at the following URL: http://www.flifo.com/aircodeindex.html User Contributions:Top Document: misc.transport.air-industry posting guidelines FAQ Previous Document: HOW TO POST TO MISC.TRANSPORT.AIR-INDUSTRY Next Document: RELATED NEWSGROUPS Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: singhal@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Sandeep Singhal)
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