>> >>Aviation has a set of its own too.
>> Some has spilled over to the public especially three letter city codes.
>> LHR LGW MAN GLA but best not to guess too many Canadian ones or MAR
>> is not in the south of France.
As you say the IATA codes have found their way into public usage. Checking car hire for an upcoming trip to Spain I found the three letter codes worked for pick up/drop off locations.
Canadian ones are bit obscure as all or most start with Y (why?).
Marseille is MRS but why is Malaga AGP?
There's a whole other set, ICAO codes, used for flight planning etc. Leeds Bradford is LBA for ticketing, baggage etc but EGNM for flight planning. First letter is region E=Northern Europe, then country, G=UK and other two are identifiers. Southern Europe's identifier is L, US is K and Canada Y.
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