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Norfolk's airport is ORF.
by rwmurrayVT 5y ago
Norfolk's airport is ORF.
- atdrummond 5y agoA shame that the flight wasn't between NFO and MCO; I would love to book a ticket between Orlando and Tonga for only $166.
- nerdponx 5y agoSome cities have their own (not really official AFAIK) codes that represent "any airport in this city", such as "NYC" meaning LGA, JFK, EWR, and maybe also HPN and/or SWF. I think these are mostly created by app/site developers but I could be wrong.
- splonk 5y agoThey're metropolitan area codes (https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Metropolitan_area_airport_codes https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Metropolitan_area_airport_cod...). They're not consistently useful across sites because different sites connect to different backends (GDS) that may or may not accept them, but it's nice if you consistently use a site that does. Back when Hipmunk was alive QSF was useful to me because it used Sabre as the GDS and would translate it as {SFO, OAK, SJC}. Other sites would show you an airport in Algeria. Edit: I should note that you should be careful when using these - at least once I accidentally booked a ticket that left from SFO and returned to SJC.
- nerdponx 5y agoThat's the term, it's been a while since I had to work with this stuff. I don't remember if I ever was able to use the metro codes to look up data from a GDS, but I do remember that I once ended up with a dataset where I had to heuristically disambiguate those codes from proper IATA codes; that sucked.
- rwmurrayVT 5y agoThat would require Norfolk to be big enough for two airports :/ The next closest is Williamsburg/Newport News and then Richmond.
- rockostrich 5y agoYou're right, but it was just a brain fart on my part. It was ORF and I don't think Norfolk has a city IATA code.
- rockostrich 5y agoAh you're right. Looking at that slack message again it was ORF. Not sure why I wrote NFO.