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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.

Example Sentences

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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

Notwithstanding the new name, the East Bay airport maintains its same OAK airport code and the “I Fly OAK” logo, and its runways continue to hug the east side of the San Francisco Bay.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 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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