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Obscure Airport Codes

An open list of 123 words by hernesheir.

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A list of airport codes (three-letter trigrams) used in ticketing and routing airplanes, cargo, luggage and passengers. The twist - these are obscure out of the way places most of us will never venture to, unless we're adventurous, or fortunate. These codes are published by the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

I have listed these in lower case, an artifact from the early days of Wordie, the much-loved precursor to today's Wordnik.

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  • hernesheir Hey great alexz, you found ONE! Nice ONE! Feb 26, 2013

  • alexz Here's ONE
    http://www.world-airport-codes.com/solomon-islands/onepusu-5471.html
    Feb 26, 2013

  • hernesheir Neither ONE nor TWO are airport codes, to my knowledge. However, ANE is the code for the Aéroport de Angers - Loire, in France; TRE is the Tiree Airport in Tiree, Scotland; FOR is Pinto Martins Intl Airport in Ceará, Brazil; and FIV stands for the Five Finger Coast Guard Heliport in Five Finger Alaska. There is no SIX, to my knowledge. Feb 26, 2013

  • hernesheir A family member long ago dubbed me the Word Bird, @VerbalElation. I am or have been, among other things, an antiques collector and a fossil plant systematicist. The latter of these discovers and catalogs relationships between extinct and living plant lineages. Finding words and drawing connections by means of organized or themed lists is but another exercise in collecting and organizing that offers me satisfaction. I delight in words. They humor me. I list words as a hobby, yes, and to keep them close to hand. But for broader reasons too.

    The world in its variety is very finely and sometimes bewilderingly nuanced, whether one examines a just synchronic snapshot, a moment in time, or a diachronic interval that spans a particular history. Our words, the words of our language, record the manifold physical and cultural landscapes that we and our forbears have perceived. I collect words in order to learn and examine their subtleties. If I am startled because there are so many words for "snow" it is because I have not known snow it its delightful variety. If "snow" is the only word known to me for the frozen precipitation that falls from the sky in winter, then my perception of that particle of the world is restricted, and perhaps biased in its narrowness. A broad vocabulary broadens the horizon I see when I look beyond myself. Feb 26, 2013

  • VerbalElation Do you list words as a hobby? Feb 25, 2013

  • hernesheir In addition to my list of obscure airport codes, see this similar list of luggage tags. Dec 29, 2009

  • hernesheir I'm giving the obscure airport codes a rest, y'all! Aug 5, 2009