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airport code

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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

Under the proposed rebranding, the airport code, OAK, will not be changed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2024

The tiny town’s airport code is SDY, while the Sydney in Australia is SYD.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

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

After considering changing her last name to Morgan she decided on Mack, after ACK, the airport code for Nantucket.

From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2017

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