When I was boy, my mother worked in the sky. She was a flight attendant. Each month she brought home a new paper booklet, a schedule that listed every Southwest Airlines flight. The map on the back ...

You see them everywhere: On highway signs, plane tickets, and even humblebraggy Twitter updates. Some are obvious and some make no sense. But what do these three-letter airport codes really mean? The ...

IATA codes (International Air Transport Association airport codes) are three letter signifiers that airports are recognised by worldwide. They originated from two-letter identification codes used by ...