{"id":151778,"date":"2024-11-26T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/obscure-us-airport-codes-guide\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T01:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T15:00:14","slug":"explained-the-most-obscure-airport-codes-in-the-us-how-they-came-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=151778","title":{"rendered":"Explained: The Most Obscure Airport Codes In The US &amp; How They Came To Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of airports worldwide continue to use old airport             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"277391\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/iata-codes\/\"  >IATA codes<\/a><\/span> long after the airport changes name (e.g., BOM for Bombay, now Mumbai in India). These codes even apply to some important railway stations (e.g., London&#8217;s Paddington station has the code QQP while York station has QQY). But what about the airports in the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"136398\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span> with obscure airport codes and         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2034092\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-airports-get-iata-codes\/\" >how do airports get their three-letter IATA codes<\/a><\/span>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airports in the US (and Canada) sometimes have seemingly strange IATA codes, although each has its own idiosyncratic explanation.<\/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":[396,475,575,4202,240,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-iata","category-iata-codes","category-north-america","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151778","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=151778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151779,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151778\/revisions\/151779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}