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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

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

The allegations “resulted in launching an immediate and thorough investigation of the behavior detection program at HNL,” the TSA said in a statement, referring to Honolulu’s airport code.

From Washington Post Dec. 2, 2011

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