Yeah, I’m a dork. No other way to explain why I find reading through lists of airport codes to be entertaining. And even more so when you start to play with the names, putting together entertaining “routings” to spell out various thing. I’m not nearly as dedicated as the folks over at Terminal U; their list is top notch. But it doesn’t include SUX or a few others I generally enjoy. But they have awesome ones like this:
FLY-ING-CAN-NOT-BEB-EAT-ENB-YAN-YTH-ING-ITI-SRE-ALC-OOL
Or, a pretty apt explanation of why I’m bothering to write this at all:
THE-WAN-DER-ING-ARA-MEA-NHA-SJE-TLA-GTO-DAY
Some days I entertain myself by finding airport codes one letter apart with actual scheduled flights. HNL-HND is one of my favorites in that category. There are others, too.
Like I said, I’m a dork.
And a special thanks to Joe for sharing that original post. I don’t know that I’d have bothered to share my idiocy had someone else not done so first.
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And don’t forget, if you go from FRA to NCE, you’ve gone to FRANCE :-).
You want airport codes one letter apart with scheduled flights?
IAH-IAD is an easy one. Let’s keep going!
Lol. At least now I know that I’m not the only one with a slight airport code obsession 🙂
SAN-SAT (on SWA)
Love it! 🙂
LAX-LAS
ORD-ORF
SLC-SJC
SEA-SNA
And DXB-DUB for some classic confusion 🙂
I’ll play!
PHL-PHX
How about MadMan? (MAD-MAN)
One letter apart is quite common with Canadian airports beginning with a Y. YYZ-YYJ, YYZ-YYC, YYZ-YYT.
END-NOW-OUR-BAD-FLI-GHT
MSY-MSP (I think I saw this as a username on FT possibly?)
HNL-HND
best one yet : Fukuoka – Montreal
CVG-CDG, SJO-SJC
DTW-DFW
ATL-AVL
MCI-MCO
PDX-PHX
Yes, you’re a dork. Though not for this. 😛
BAT-MAN
Airport Chafei Amsei (BAT) Brazil to Ringway International Airport (MAN) United Kingdom
this is a good one for the DYKWIA (too bad it’s not possible for the average flyer…):
PIS-OFF-BUD
That’s Poitiers to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha to Budapest!