This Database is arranged three ways:
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Click on the first letter of the country name for which you want all
the airport codes. You will see here a list of all the countries in the world with
beginning with that letter. Click on the name of the country in which you're interested
and you will see here a list of all the airports in that country. Note that the U.S.
is not here as its broken by State below.
The U.S. is further divided into States. Click on the first letter
of the U.S.State for which you want all the airport codes. If there's only one state
with that letter you'll see the codes, however if there is more than one state with
that letter e.g. "T" for Texas and Tennessee, y'all see here a list of all the States
beginning with that letter. Click on the U.S. State in which you're interested and
y'all see a list of all the airports in that State.
Click on the letter (to the left) that corresponds to the initial
of the city or town for which you need the three letter code, and you will see here
a list of all cities or towns in the world that begin with that letter together with
the airport code, country, country code, GMT offset, runway length, elevation, latitude
and longitude. Note the two boxes, one contains all the data mentioned here (the last
box)
and the other just contains the code lookup. The Full Data takes some time to download (10s-2mins depending on the letter), where the code lookup only is fast (less than 10 seconds).
Click on the first letter (to the left) of the three letter airport
code you know and you will see here a list of all codes in the world beginning with
that letter. Scroll through the list until you find the code you're searching for.
Definitions of terms used in Database:
The airport code is a three letter designator for a commercial airport,
or other travel point -- e.g. a large bus station. These are the codes that airlines
and pilots use to identify airports and are used in timetables, baggage tags, tickets,
advertisements, Airline and Global Reservation Systems. There are approximately 9,000
of them in use of a total of 17,576 available. IATA in Geneva is responsible for the
designation of these codes. How many aiports are there by country? here's
a link to a chart that shows you.
Each country has an intuitive two-letter alpha code that is used in
data bases around the world not only by airlines, but by shipping companies, phone
companies and any company that has a global reach.
Each country also has a number in all those databases which follow
a pattern of:
000-099: USA -- in this data base the number corresponds
to a state
100-199: Central America
200-299: Caribbean
300-399: South America
400-499: Europe
500-599: Africa
600-699: Middle East
700-799: Asia, Russian Federation and Indian Sub Continent
800-899: Australasia
900-999: Canada
I don't know who devised these and why they are different from telephone country codes,
but they are.
This is how many hours this city is away from the Grenwich Meridian
in jolly old London, England without accounting for adjustments for daylight savings
time. So for example, a GMT offset of -3 means that at 3pm in London, it is 6:00pm
in that city, and a +6 means that it would be 9:00am in that city. GMT means Greenwich
Mean Time, or Greenwich Meridian Time.
This data is a little old and may not have the latest distance of
the runway in ft, or be updated for a new runway. So if you're a pilot planning to
land a plane here, please don't blame me if the runway has been shortened. I also
only have the data for about 8,000 of the 9,000 airports. The distances (in feet)
are important for pilots because bigger planes need longer runways to take off and
land. The elevation (in feet also) is important to know because the air gets thinner
the higher you are and thus it requires more speed (or less weight) to get the lift
under the wings to take off, and more speed generally requires a greater runway length.
Airlines have to study carefully each aircraft/route/runway combination to make sure
that it's aircraft can successfully take off from an airport and fly the intended
route with varying loads of passengers and cargo. In some extreme cases like La Paz
in Bolivia aircraft have to be modified because at 13,000 ft, the altitude is so high
that if you were to open the door of normal jet-plane on arrival, all the oxygen masks
would deploy as the sensors would think that the plane had depressurized.
Most people know that the world is divided up into a set of numerical
references that describe your position somewhere on the face of this planet. Most
people however who have a GPS device have absolutely no idea how to use these coordinates.
Hopefully, if you have a GPS device and take a reading where you are (near a big city),
it should match the data in this data base. If not, either you are terribly lost,
your GPS has malfunctioned, or my data is wrong. Furthermore you have seen the lines
drawn on maps of the world that circle the globe horizontally and vertically -- these
are the major lines of latitude and longitude. Because this planet is nearly spherical,
the lines are divided up into measurements called degrees, minutes and seconds which
are similar to angles of a circle but in three dimensions. These numbers help pilots
and captains navigate, and nowadays car companies use them to offer in-car products
to people who don't know how to read a map. I use them to calculate an approximate
flight time and distance between two points on the globe and hopefully will soon include
this feature on this web-site.
If there's a city or an airport missing, or an incorrect code, please let me know.
You may find a few errors and a few new airports not yet added. So sticklers for perfection
will have to bear with me.
Airport Guide
Dallas Fort Worth |
Denver | Detroit |
Houston |
Jackson Atlanta
| Lambert
St. Louis | Las
Vegas | Los
Angeles | Memphis
TN | Miami |
Newark |
Oakland |
Philadelphia PA |
Phoenix |
Van Nuys CA |
Minneapolis |
Chicago |
Charlotte NC |
Cincinnatti, OH |
Columbus MS