Following on from post on Monday about how to find airport codes, here are all of the codes I can find that are funny, weird or just downright inappropriate in English. The airports with an * are ones I have been to:
- ACK: Nantucket Memorial United States
- ALE: Alpine United States
- ATM: Altamira Brazil
- AWK: Wake Island US Minor Outlying Islands
- BAD: Louisiana’s Barksdale Air Force Base
- BAG: Loakan, Philippines
- BAH: Bahrain International, Bahrain*
- BED Bedford, Mass, USA
- BOM: Bombay, (Mumbai), India*
- BOO: Bodø, Norway
- BRO: South Padre Is. Intl United States
- BRR: North Bay, United Kingdom
- BUD: Liszt Ferenc airport, Budapest, Hungary*
- BUG: Gen V Deslandes, Angola
- BUM: Butler, MO, USA
- BUN: Buenaventura Colombia
- CIA: Ciampino Italy
- COK: Cochine International Airport, India (named after the city of Kochi)
- COW Coquimbo Chile
- DAD: Da Nang Viet Nam*
- DAM: Damascus, SYRIA
- DIL: PRESIDENTE NICOLAU LOBATO, Dili, East Timor
- DOA: Doany Madagascar
- DOH: Doha, Qatar
- DOO: Dorobisoro, Papua New Guinea
- DUM: Dumai, Indonesia
- EAT: Wenatchee, WA, USA
- EEK: Eek, AK, United States
- FAG: Fagurhólsmýri, Iceland
- FAQ: Freida River Papua New Guinea
- FAT: Fresno Air Terminal Airport United States
- FIG: Fria, Guinea
- FLU: Flushing Airport (decommissioned), NY, USA
- FOO: Numfoor Indonesia
- FUB: Fulleborn Papua New Guinea
- FUK: Fukuoka Japan
- FUN: Funafuti, Tuvalu
- GAG: Gage United States
- GAY: Gaya India
- GOO: Nevada County Airpark, Grass Valley, CA
- GOT: GÖTEBORG AIRPORT, Sweden*
- GRR: Grand Rapids/Gerald R. Ford International Airport*
- HEL: Helsinki, Finland*
- HIP: Headingly, Piturie Australia
- HOT: Hot Springs, Arkansas
- INN: INNSBRUCK, Austria
- IOU: Ile Ouen New Caledonia
- LAX: Los Angeles International*
- LOL: Derby Field airport, Nevada, USA serving Lovelock City
- LOX: Los Tablones Airport mGuatemala
- MIA: Miami International*, FL< USA
- MOM: Moudjeria, Mauritania
- OMG: Omega Airport, Namibia
- ORC: Orocue, Colombia
- PEE: Perm, Russian Federation
- PEK: Peking (Beijing, China)
- PIE: St. Pete, FL, USA
- PIS: Poitiers–Biard Airport, Poitou-Charentes region, France
- POO: Pocos De Caldas, Brazil
- RAK: Marrakesh, Morrocco
- ROO: Rondonópolis, Brazil, (Should be in Australia!)
- ROT: Rotorua, New Zealand*
- SEE: Gillespie Field, San Diego, USA
- SEX: Sembach Germany
- SIK:– Sikeston, MO, USA
- SIN: Singapore*
- SOB: HÉVÍZ-BALATON REPÜLŐTÉR, Hungary
- SUK: Samcheok, South Korea
- SUX: Sioux City airport, Iowa, USA
- TIP: Tripoli International
- UMM: Summit, AK, United States
- UNK: Unalakleet Airport, AK, USA
- WOW: Willow, AK, USA
- YEP: Estevan Point Canada
- YUM: Yuma, AZ, USA
- ZIP: Harbour Eolie Island Airport, Italy
Have I left any out? No doubt there are other names that have the same impact in other languages.
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CLT-Charlotte.
Sorry.
How did Pensacola not make the list. PNS.
YOW – Ottawa
KUM – Yakushima, Japan
PNS – Pensacola
Petaluma Municipal Airport
Petaluma, California, USA
FAA Identifier: O69