In general IATA codes are usually derived from the name of the airport or the city it serves, while ICAO codes are distributed by region and country. Far more aerodromes (in the broad sense) have ICAO codes than IATA codes, which are sometimes assigned to railway stations as well. The selection of ICAO codes is partly delegated to authorities in each country, while IATA codes which have no geographic structure must be decided centrally by IATA.
The first one or two letters of the ICAO code indicate the country; the remaining letters identify the airport. ICAO codes are used partly for geographical context. For example, the ICAO code for Heathrow International Airport in London, is EGLL, with its first letters reflecting that it is based in the United Kingdom. On the other hand, IATA codes do not provide geographic reference. The LHR for Heathrow does not enable one to deduce the location of the airport LHV with any greater certainty; it is William T. Piper Memorial Airport in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania in the United States.
For Europe there are also the NUTS codes. It goes into different levels of detail, depending on the country. For some countries like Germany you get the code for cities while for other countries like Spain you get only regions.
The IATA, the FAA (US Federal Aviation Administration), and various booking engines have assigned "city codes" which represent several airports serving a metropolitan area. Not every region served with multiple airports is assigned a location identifier, however, nor are all IATA-recognized facilities necessarily included; furthermore, the inclusion or exclusion of a facility may depend on the booking system.
Metropolitan area airport codes are handy for simplifying flight searches into or out of a region. Some booking engines which include airports based on distance from a point can be tricked into extending the search through use of the city code.
Codes are used for locations, airlines, companies and equipment in the entries you use in Amadeus. Different entries exist to encode or decode for example airlines and city or airport codes. The encode and decode transactions allows you to:
The data in this report is presented in a top-down format. Table 1 provides gross summaries of U.S.-International passengers, capacity, and freight. The same data is then broken down by world area, and country in Tables 2 through 5. Scheduled passengers data for the largest domestic gateway cities, the largest foreign gateway cities, and the largest U.S.- International city-pairs can be found in Tables 6,7, and 8. All data is derived from the T-100 Segment reports submitted to the Department by U.S. and foreign carriers.
For accuracy, addresses should be complete, for example: 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043. For a partial address ("1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy"), Google Maps might not be able to resolve the city, region, or country.
Anyone who's flown knows that every airport has a unique three-letter code associated with it. You'll see these IATA codes everywhere, from tickets to barcoded luggage tags to boarding passes. A good portion of the world's airports have codes that make sense in relation to their respective city or historical name.
It really does seem like Canadian airports are unique in this respect. There doesn't appear to be any other country in the world with a distinct first-letter theme for its IATA codes. Many airports simply use a combination of letters that generally make sense with the city that an airport serves. Examples of this are listed below.
While Canada has most of the world's airport codes beginning with the letter Y, a few outside the country also start with the same letter. Among these are US facilities such as Yakima, Washington (YKM) and Yuma, Arizona (YUM).
The Germany area code table below shows the various city codes for Germany. Germany country codes are followed by these area codes. With the complete Germany dialing code, you can make your international call.
Most IATA codes are based on the name of the airport or the city it serves, while others are based on older names or historical references. For example, the IATA code for Chicago O'Hare International Airport is ORD, which is derived from its former name, Orchard Field.
On the other hand, IATA city codes are also three-letter codes, but they represent cities rather than specific airports. These codes help identify the location of airports within a particular city. For instance, "NYC" represents the city of New York, which encompasses multiple airports such as John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and LaGuardia Airport (LGA). If there is only one airport in a city, the IATA city code will be the same as the IATA airport code.
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