Which is the best airport in the world?

[Olivier]

Have fun finding the codes' meaning

OK...

BKK - Bangkok?
CDG - Paris - Charles de Gaulle
DAD - Dallas ?
FAO
FCO
HAN
HKG - Hong Kong ?
JFK - New York Kennedy!
LAD
LGW - London Gatwick
LHR - London Heathrow
LIS
SGN - Singapour?
SJZ
TER
VCE - Venice (I went there too).
VIE
ZRH - Zurich.

[Olivier]

BTW, do you know how the codes are chosen? Is there an office which say "your code will be, well... EBT!" ?

[Van Geel]

What about Schiphol Amsterdam?

I like Schiphol, it's a very nice airport!

[lmviterbo]

BKK - Bangkok? YES
DAD - Dallas ? NO
HKG - Hong Kong ? YES
SGN - Singapour? NO

BTW, do you know how the codes are chosen? Is there an office which say "your code will be, well... EBT!" ?

They're 3-letter codes from IATA (International Air Transport Association) - "Location Identifiers", in aviation-speak, "luggage-tag codes", in jargon. There's no airport with EBT code, though
There are also 4-letter codes by ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization). Here's where I've been:

EGGL
EGKK
FNLU
KJFK
LFPG
LIPZ
LIRF
LOWW
LPFR
LPHR
LPLA
LPPT
LPSJ
LSZH
VHHH
VTBD
VVDN
VVNB
VVTS

Now try find what those mean! (I know how the codes are formed, though. If you want an entertaining explanation, read http://www.skygod.com/asstd/abc.html ).

Now, for fun, here are some names for some of these airports:

4 de Fevereiro
Charles de Gaulle
Chek Lap Kok
Don Muang International
Faial
Fiumicino
Gatwick
Heathrow
John F. Kennedy
Kai Tak
Kloten
Lajes
Leonardo Da Vinci
Marco Polo
Noibai
Portela
Schwechat
Tan Son Nhat
Tessera

You're already familiar with some of them, but I bet other people will be puzzled - even NOW1K (by the way, is this any airspace code? ) and whoever might have worked in a travel agency.

EDIT: added another one I had forgotten. Still not sure about 3 others...

[nodisch18]

For all you airport freaks, this is perhaps a interesting page:


http://gc.kls2.com/

This is my Great Circle Map:

[noogie]

Schiphol International Airport... in Amsterdam!!!

[lmviterbo]

http://gc.kls2.com

Great tool!

Here are my airports:


(I had forgotten one of them; added now on my previous posts. I am still not sure if I traveled through Madrid, Frankfurt and Milan.)

[micro]

Amsterdam
Athens
Bangkok
Berlin-Schönefeld
Berlin-Tegel
...
Ujung Pandang
Venice
Vienna
Warsaw
Washington-Dulles

one should think you spend more time in the sky than on the ground

I'm somehow addicted to traveling to remote places. With the years they add up (I'm 42)

[eurobillsandcoins]

BKK - Bangkok? YES
DAD - Dallas ? NO
HKG - Hong Kong ? YES
SGN - Singapour? NO

BTW, do you know how the codes are chosen? Is there an office which say "your code will be, well... EBT!" ?

They're 3-letter codes from IATA (International Air Transport Association) - "Location Identifiers", in aviation-speak, "luggage-tag codes", in jargon. There's no airport with EBT code, though
There are also 4-letter codes by ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization). Here's where I've been:

EGGL
EGKK
FNLU
KJFK
LFPG
LIPZ
LIRF
LOWW
LPFR
LPHR
LPLA
LPPT
LPSJ
LSZH
VHHH
VTBD
VVDN
VVNB
VVTS

Now try find what those mean! (I know how the codes are formed, though. If you want an entertaining explanation, read http://www.skygod.com/asstd/abc.html ).

Now, for fun, here are some names for some of these airports:

4 de Fevereiro
Charles de Gaulle
Chek Lap Kok
Don Muang International
Faial
Fiumicino
Gatwick
Heathrow
John F. Kennedy
Kai Tak
Kloten
Lajes
Leonardo Da Vinci
Marco Polo
Noibai
Portela
Schwechat
Tan Son Nhat
Tessera

You're already familiar with some of them, but I bet other people will be puzzled - even NOW1K (by the way, is this any airspace code? ) and whoever might have worked in a travel agency.

EDIT: added another one I had forgotten. Still not sure about 3 others...

Kai Tak- Hong Kong's OLD airport in downtown, shut down in 1998
Chek Lap Kok- New Airport on Lantau
Fiumicino- Rome
Tan Son Nhat (SGN)- Saigon, Vietnam
Don Muang- I think this is Bangkok
Heathrow- London
John F. Kennedy- New York
Charles de Gaulle- Paris.

Singapore's code I think is SGP anyone know what YYZ is? Bet you can't figure this out, (Olivier, if you know, don't say)

[Viperazzi]

Toronto! (pronounce it like an Italian or Spaniard would, it sounds funny!)

Just a bit of Googling(TM) was enough.

[lmviterbo]

Kai Tak- Hong Kong's OLD airport in downtown, shut down in 1998 -- eheh, right (in fact I haven't been there, but on Chek Lap Kok)
Chek Lap Kok- New Airport on Lantau -- right too ...
Don Muang- I think this is Bangkok -- right three (in Thai, สนามบินดอนเมือง, "town on a hill")

Singapore's code I think is SGP anyone know what YYZ is? Bet you can't figure this out

Toronto!
Just a bit of Googling(TM) was enough.

To be exact, Lester B Pearson International Airport.
You could have checked here or here.

[Donald]

My map:

33 different airports so far.

[Lucaz]

What about Schiphol Amsterdam?

Schiphol Schiphol Schiphol

[Batavorum]

What about Schiphol Amsterdam?

Inderdeed, some international surveys show frequently that Schiphol Amsterdam is one of the best international airports in the world.

[BogPoet]

LIS - Lisbon (Aeroporto da Portela)
FAO - Aeroporto Internacional de Faro