ICAO vs IATA Codes: Airline Edition

Aviation Games Debating
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Well we have an Airport Edition, so why not an airline version?

Examples:

IATA: BA, G3, RG, DL, LX
ICAO: BAW, GLO, VRG, DAL, SWR

  • ICAO
  • IATA

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Cebu Pacific - 5J :skull:

ICAO - CEB

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Depends

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Swiss

LX ???
SWR (inherited from SWissaiR)

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OTT Airlines - MU

ICAO - CES…?

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Jeez…

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Flynas - XY

ICAO - KNE

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7I cool

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IATA is completely random.

Take Singapore for example.

SIA - the complete acronym.
SQ? doesn’t make any sense.

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Should be SG tbh

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I like ICAO better, but I’m more used to IATA. So I’m kinda in a pickle.

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The IATA codes are all leftovers except for a few dozen airlines, which had first dibs

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Idk… I like IATA better imo because it’s just cleaner. Take Southwest for example, I like “WN” better then “SWA”, not sure why.

Also American, “AA” is so much better than “AAL”.

And “SQ” is kinda cool ngl

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Yeah, some IATAs like UA, AA and BA are better, but LX is just wth

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Yeah but IATA is random

Like SWA would be easier to guess even for non avgeeks

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CX, NH, EK, SQ… the list is endless

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also SWR vs LX

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But organizational purposes make IATA so much better

SWA takes too much room whereas WN doesnt

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One letter…

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WN means nothing tho

should be SW

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