CalgaryAirport to become "YYC Calgary International Airport"
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CalgaryAirport to become "YYC Calgary International Airport"
I guess they are really proud of their identifier?
http://www.yyc.com/News/tabid/91/articl ... rport.aspx
http://www.yyc.com/News/tabid/91/articl ... rport.aspx
Re: CalgaryAirport to become "YYC Calgary International Airport"
You would think they'd be too busy running the airport to come up with nonsense like this.
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I thought it was going to become Stephen J Harper International Airport.
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Re: CalgaryAirport to become "YYC Calgary International Airport"
IMO, they should all be named after people prominent in the aviation history of this country.
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YWG got it right!
Re: CalgaryAirport to become "YYC Calgary International Airport"
There was a pretty serious effort behind-the-scenes to get the airport named after Fred McCall. Obviously whatever useless hipster-marketing agency they wasted money on felt it better to recommend the airport align itself along food-trucks and beard-festivals.
Re: CalgaryAirport to become "YYC Calgary International Airport"
When you only have 140 characters to share your wisdom with the world, YYC takes up way less of them than any actual name they would come up with. Unless the wanted to name it Joe or Bob.
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Re: CalgaryAirport to become "YYC Calgary International Airport"
This was my exact thought.ahramin wrote:You would think they'd be too busy running the airport to come up with nonsense like this.
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As they bloody well should.Zaibatsu wrote:I thought it was going to become Stephen J Harper International Airport.
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Did anyone tell them that is the VOR and they forgot the "C". Maybe there is a plan to accelerate the decommissioning of VOR's like NDB's and it won't matter?:)
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Re: CalgaryAirport to become "YYC Calgary International Airport"
The IATA code for Calgary is YYC.Prodriver wrote:Did anyone tell them that is the VOR and they forgot the "C". Maybe there is a plan to accelerate the decommissioning of VOR's like NDB's and it won't matter?:)
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I like the ICAO system better and their office is located in Montreal'.
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Re: CalgaryAirport to become "YYC Calgary International Airport"
Prodriver, re their office. The following is from the IATA web site:Prodriver wrote:I like the ICAO system better as there office is still in Montreal'.
Montreal
Head Office
800 Place Victoria
PO Box 113
Montreal - H4Z 1M1
Quebec - Canada
Phone: +1 514 874 0202
Fax: +1 514 874 9632
http://www.iata.org/about/Pages/offices.aspx