BAE Systems is the world's second-largest defense contractor, while " Bae" is a slang term meaning girlfriend, boyfriend, or significant other. Both IATA codes are probably originated from Peking, alternate former spelling of the city's name.
ATL may also be an abbreviation for "above the line" - the area in an internet article or post containing the main content as contrasted with BTL ("below the line") where readers' comments appear.īeijing is the capital of China, served by two airports: Beijing Capital (IATA: PEK) and Beijing Daxing (IATA: PKX).
This may also be an intentional misspelling of "Atlanta". Tolkien's fictional island of Númenor (which is in turn a reference to the sinking of Atlantis). ANC is also an abbreviated name for the African National Congress.Īnother name for J.R.R. "AMD" is also an abbreviated name for " Advanced Micro Devices", a company that makes computer processors and graphics cards, among other products.Īnkh-Morpork is a fictional city-state featured in Discworld.
United states airport city codes code#
Its airport (called Schiphol) has the IATA code AMS. It may also be a reference to tongue-in-cheek ' teen texting code' explanations for older generations.Īmsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands. This comic could be inspired by the recent news about an Indian businessman charged with making a bomb threat at a Mumbai airport claiming he was misheard by a telephone operator while asking for the BOM to DEL flight status. This acronym also leads to some redundancy in the title by making the true title of the comic be "International Airport Abbreviation Airport Abbreviations," which might be an example of RAS syndrome. This is as wrong as almost everything else here, because the real International Air Transport Association is not an organization only responsible for abbreviations in aviation. The title text is a pun about the acronym IATA, stating it stands for International Airpor T Abbreviation. In actuality, the friend is flying into Newark tonight and Detroit tomorrow. If we use the table provided, Randall's friend is flying into Edwards Air Force Base and then "down to whatever" - not a real flight. In fact, this list is complete nonsense, with some of the "airports" mentioned not even existing, and the existing airports are all paired with the wrong codes, except for Huntsville (HSV), San Diego (one of the instances of SAN) and Toronto Pearson (YYZ). Randall is obviously confused by these codes, replying to his friend that he definitely knows what those mean without googling, basically revealing that he used Google to search for the codes, and has created a list for us to memorize. In many cases, the airport codes appear to have been chosen (or invented) because they are also common abbreviations and acronyms. Other codes make seemingly no sense at all (e.g., ORD for Chicago's O'Hare International, due to it formerly being named Orchard Field).
Other codes are somewhat intuitive, taking a letter or two from the nearby city name but adding an additional letter (e.g., LAX for Los Angeles). Some airport codes are very intuitive, taking letters from the city name (e.g., DEN for Denver). These codes are overseen by the IATA (International Air Transport Association). This comic is making fun of the three-letter codes assigned to mostly all airports in the world. Title text: IATA stands for International AirporT Abbreviation.
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