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airport code

American  

noun

  1. a three-letter abbreviation of the names of the world's major airports, used especially as an identifier for routing baggage.


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PBI is the president’s home airport and will retain that airport code for now.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

The airport code OAK and brand visuals would not change under the proposal.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 2, 2024

Tina Slater of Silver Spring, Md. remembers an amusing mix-up involving Dulles’s three-letter airport code: IAD.

From Washington Post Jan. 6, 2023

The group, whose name references the three-letter airport code for Nantucket Memorial Airport, argues the project is proposed for a major area for foraging and nursing for right whales.

From Seattle Times Aug. 25, 2021

A day earlier I wondered about a sticker on a bag Meyer was carrying: MSY, the New Orleans airport code.

From New York Times Aug. 7, 2011

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