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fruityyamenrunner:

toolusingmammalgirl:

I love how O\u2019Hare\u2019s abbreviation is \u201cORD\u201d since it was \u201cOrchard Place\u201d once upon a time, and since it\u2019s 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.

\u201cI\u2019m flying in tomorrow through The Ord\u201d

airport codes are another thing, like state abbreviations, that Americans expect everyone to know implicitly

worse they extend it to airports in europe too

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Portland as a whole identifies as PDX

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