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Just as an aside, no-one planning actual ETOPS routes would ever use IATA airport codes. IATA codes are to ICAO as NetBIOS names are to DNS. I wish we could s
by dingaling 8y ago
Just as an aside, no-one planning actual ETOPS routes would ever use IATA airport codes.
IATA codes are to ICAO as NetBIOS names are to DNS.
I wish we could stamp-out the casual use of IATA codes, they do have some internal admin uses within airlines but they only cover a subset of airports and they don't have any logical decoding sequence.
- markonen 8y agoYes, but we passengers use them regularly.