{"id":137610,"date":"2024-10-07T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/orlando-international-airport-mco-iata-code-history\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T22:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T12:00:12","slug":"why-does-orlando-international-airport-have-the-iata-code-mco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=137610","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Orlando International Airport Have The IATA Code MCO?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"261114\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/orlando-international-airport\/\"  >Orlando International Airport<\/a><\/span>&#8216;s officially accepted IATA code is MCO. Despite this, there is a common confusion; people frequently refer to it by its initials, OIA. MCO derives from the airport&#8217;s former name, McCoy Air Force Base, which was decommissioned in 1975 and transformed into the civilian airport known today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando Internation Airport&#8217;s IATA code remained MCO in honor of Colonel Michael Norman Wright McCoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,475,5223,7412,583],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-florida","category-mco","category-orlando-international-airport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137611,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137610\/revisions\/137611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}