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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:08 pm Post subject: Airport names...

What does the letter in front of the airport ICAO stand for?

ex.
TNCM
KJFK

Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject:

The 2 first letters stand for the country and the 2 last stand for the airport as far as I know.

Example: All airports in Denmark start off with EK. Copenhagen is EKCH.
EK is for Denmark and CH is for Copenhagen.

Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:04 pm Post subject:

What about american airports?

KJFK...

United States of America doesnt start with a K ;P

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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:07 pm Post subject:

Lol. Denmark dosn't start with EK Wink

Anyways, it's just something I have thought about and *figured* out. I don't know if it's 100% correct, but it's my guess Wink

Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject:

But:

KSEA
KPDX
KJFK
KLAX
.......maby it's only the FIRST letter as u said? I don't know Wink

Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:10 pm Post subject:

Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject:

Check out these links. I did a simple search on the letters ICAO and found a whole bunch of hits. Cool

http://www.airport-technology.com/icao-codes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICAO_airport_code

Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:14 pm Post subject:

Oh wow thanks for those links
they sure help a lot!!