What airport identifier do you prefer?

Real World Aviation
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ICAO or IATA

I personally prefer ICAOs. Even if they don’t always make sense, such as EGLL for Heathrow, they stick better with me. Also, having the first letter stand for a region, I can roughly estimate where an airport is just by the first letter. i.e. EGKK being in England. IATAs on the other hand, I don’t like them at all. Thoughts?

  • ICAO
  • IATA
  • IDC

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-Rob

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Can a mod fix that? Poll didn’t work I guess

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ICAO. No doubt about it.

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Try to rewrite the poll, or copy paste

(poll type=regular)

  • ICAO
  • IATA
  • I don’t care, why do you?
    (/poll)

The ‘(‘ must to be a ‘[‘
The ‘)’ must to be a ‘]’

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There we go, now it’s fine (:

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Also, if you like IATAs over ICAOs, I need and explanation

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because they make more sense as 99% of iata codes are the first 3 letters of the city the airport is in

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I’d say ICAO since that is the most common one, and it’s the only one non aviation geeks have a wimp of a chance to recognize…

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LHR doesnt tell me anything other than some random initials. With EGLL, at least you can tell the region it’s in. And I find these much easier to memorize. LHR is London HeathRow, which makes no sense

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Take a sec (;

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ICAO, acronyms are the worst… 😂

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At least this topic is on which we prefer and not how some people butcher the pronunciation of ICAO 😂

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ICAO all the way. The IATA is just the airport name, not the country, witch helps alot

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That’s what I’m saying! Which* (;

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Of course IATA because straight away I can tell the airport name for major airports. The flight information displaying flights at an airport also uses IATA if that particular city has more than one international airport. The boarding pass you receive before you board your flight is also IATA.

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Again, I’ll bring this up.

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But flightplans use ICAOs, which server a more important roll that bording pass info

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actually it makes a ton of sense, london is the city and hr is that specific airport is in the city, same thing with lgw

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EGLL is London Heathrow, which ‘‘makes no sense too’’. How would I know it’s located in Europe and it’s London Heathrow? Probably the E and L.

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Hut let’s discuss which holds a bigger weight. IATAs are used for birding passes, ICAOs by ATC and flightplans. Which do you think holds more weight