{"id":204845,"date":"2025-04-24T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/understanding-aircraft-code-when-booking-flights\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T02:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:00:15","slug":"b77w-vs-77w-how-to-understand-aircraft-codes-when-booking-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=204845","title":{"rendered":"B77W Vs 77W? How To Understand Aircraft Codes When Booking Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial planes are given a two, three, or four-character alphanumeric code to designate their aircraft type. Aircraft types that are later modified may also be given a different code. Aircraft codes are defined by both the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255905\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/icao\/\"  >ICAO<\/a><\/span>codes are published in the ICAO&#8217;s &#8216;Document 8643 Aircraft Type Designators.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the ICAO is the main source of aircraft type codes, the IATA also publishes its own list of aircraft codes.<\/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":[426,396,398,13240,570,575,726],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-commercial-aviation","category-guide","category-iata","category-icao"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204845","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=204845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204846,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204845\/revisions\/204846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}