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An Antonov AN-124 just landed this week at ABIA with parts for the Tesla factory. They are apparently from Tiancheng Coating, who makes robotic coating systems
by chiph 6y ago
An Antonov AN-124 just landed this week at ABIA with parts for the Tesla factory. They are apparently from Tiancheng Coating, who makes robotic coating systems for the automotive industry.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/m8opqh/fun_time_working_on_the_antonov_an124/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/m8opqh/fun_time_wor...
- thefourthchime 6y agoTwo of them landed actually. The Austin subreddit has lots of cool photos.
- pmcollins 6y agoABIA == Austin–Bergstrom International Airport
- hnburnsy 6y agoWhy not AUS or KAUS? Do locals call it ABIA?
- sbierwagen 6y agoThe list of perplexing airport IATA codes is miles long. Most famously, Toronto Pearson International is YYZ. (All Canadian airports start with Y)
- bellyfullofbac 6y agoI learned yesterday that St. Petersburg (Russia) airport is LED, which are letters found in its old name: Leningrad.
- edub 6y agoABIA is the abbreviation/acronym of the proper name of Austin's airport, Austin–Bergstrom International Airport, but the IATA code actually is AUS. When I search for a flight, I use AUS as the search term, when I search for the airport on Google Maps I use ABIA, and when I send an informal email and abbreviate Austin is write ATX. The previous Austin airport (Mueller, closed 1999, now a planned community) also had an IATA code of AUS. They did a single day cutover from the old to new airport, so they were never both in commercial use at the same time (Bergstrom was an Air Force base for similar years as Mueller).
- xeromal 6y agoMy favorite is Chicago being called ORD. At least with that, they renamed the airport and that's the cause for the weird characters