Referring to an airline by IATA code is stupid.

Douglas

Douglas

Old School KSUX
Referring to an airline by IATA code is stupid and if you do it, you are stoopid.

There seems be another flare up of IATA code this and IATA code that, and I'm scratching this itch.
 
I agree with you completely, a little piece of me dies when I see an airline referred to by its IATA code. Great way to make someone with a nascent interest in aviation who frequent the forums think we are bunch of pricks.
 
TheShocker said:
I agree with you completely, a little piece of me dies when I see an airline referred to by its IATA code. Great way to make someone with a nascent interest in aviation who frequent the forums think we are bunch of pricks.
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It makes you look like an A.Nutter...which isn't a cool thing.
 
I refer to cities by their airport codes. Not to be "cool" but because typing PIT is a helluva lot easier than typing out Pittsburgh. I'm just lazy that way...
 
People who don't venture out to learn things about their job are stupid. Also, ICAO codes are superior.
 
MQAAord said:
I refer to cities by their airport codes. Not to be "cool" but because typing PIT is a helluva lot easier than typing out Pittsburgh. I'm just lazy that way...
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You should see my american history notebooks. After a while nobody wanted to use my notes.
 
Minuteman said:
People who don't venture out to learn things about their job are stupid. Also, ICAO codes are superior.
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What's superior about them? As far as I can see they're only useful for the purpose of lording one's totally useless knowledge over their Lessers. It's no different than a CFI using as many acronyms as possible to make himself seem smart (and the listener/student feel stupid).
 
Boris Badenov said:
What's superior about them? As far as I can see they're only useful for the purpose of lording one's totally useless knowledge over their Lessers. It's no different than a CFI using as many acronyms as possible to make himself seem smart (and the listener/student feel stupid).
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I was mostly being facetious and responding to the ham-headed claim that using an established system of codes is stupid. IATA is functionally equivalent to ICAO, except that its population is a subset of ICAO.

I prefer the use of codes because it acommodates brevity, uniqueness (I hate you Manchester!), and fixed-length strings, which is relevant in my daily work. In turn that bleeds over to the vernacular in airplane geekery.
 
Minuteman said:
I was mostly being facetious and responding to the ham-headed claim that using an established system of codes is stupid. IATA is functionally equivalent to ICAO, except that its population is a subset of ICAO.

I prefer the use of codes because it acommodates brevity, uniqueness (I hate you Manchester!), and fixed-length strings, which is relevant in my daily work. In turn that bleeds over to the vernacular in airplane geekery.
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Lotta big words...say again, over?
 
pullup said:
My guess is not everyone knows what the airline codes are (hint: I'm one of them).
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Yep that would be it. It can be pretty annoying to have to google 'insert random string of letters here' airlines to find out who you guys are talking about....I'm catching on though, don't worry!
 
TOOT! TOOT!

Derby Field / Airport Omega, Namibia / West African Air Transport / Codrington Airport / AirBridgeCargo Airlines / San Marcos Airport?

(LOL / OMG / WTF / BBQ / RU / SRS?)
 
And what is so different about that than the other 90% of our posts on aviation forums that are absolutely filled with jargon?
 
Hacker15e said:
What, exactly, is so stupid about it?
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I agree. I can type 9E, S5, CB, WN, etc faster than spelling it out.

If you don't know one you can find them on Google or here

I wouldn't go a medical board and expect them to spell everything out. Most docs don't call heart attacks, heart attacks among other docs. They are referred to as MI's
 
Isnt there a difference between the IATA and ICAO codes?

Ex - WN = SWA = Southwest

I hate seeing the "WN" ones (because for some reason, WN is the only one I know) but SWA is pretty obvious I think, and what they use for their callsign prefix on flightplans.

Ex2 - F9 = FFT = Frontier?
 
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