I love how O’Hare’s abbreviation is “ORD” since it was “Orchard Place” once upon a time, and since it’s surely a huge pain in...
I love how O’Hare’s abbreviation is “ORD” since it was “Orchard Place” once upon a time, and since it’s surely a huge pain in the ass to change the code for an airport this huge and busy, Chicago is forever locked out of having a cool, snappy name for its airport a la ATL, LAX, JFK, etc.
“I’m flying in tomorrow through The Ord”
airport codes are another thing, like state abbreviations, that Americans expect everyone to know implicitly
worse they extend it to airports in europe too
Portland as a whole identifies as PDX