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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

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

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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