{"id":61584,"date":"2017-01-18T19:58:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T19:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/?p=61584"},"modified":"2023-11-23T10:28:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T10:28:07","slug":"glossaryiata-code-international-jet-charters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/blog\/glossaryiata-code-international-jet-charters\/","title":{"rendered":"IATA Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An IATA (International Air Transportation Association) code is a three-letter code that designates an airport located anywhere in the world, including private jet airports. There are different ways in which IATA codes are chosen for certain airports.<\/p>\n<h2>How it Works<\/h2>\n<p>In some cases, the first three letters of the airport city are used to determine the airport\u2019s IATA code. Such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SIN \u2013 Singapore<\/li>\n<li>IST \u2013 Istanbul<\/li>\n<li>ATL \u2013 Atlanda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, this isn\u2019t always the case. Sometimes the IATA code is made up using a combination of letters in the city\u2019s name. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>JNB \u2013 Johannesburg<\/li>\n<li>HKG \u2013 Hong Kong<\/li>\n<li>WAW \u2013 Warsaw<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In fewer cases, IATA codes will simply use two letters from the city and tack and X onto the end. Some of the more common codes that follow this rule include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LAX \u2013 Los Angeles<\/li>\n<li>PDX \u2013 Portland<\/li>\n<li>PHX \u2013 Phoenix<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s also not totally uncommon to see IATA codes that don\u2019t fit the more common schemes listed above. Some airports, especially the ones that cross several municipalities or regions, use a combination of the different methods above. Some examples include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DFW \u2013 Dallas-Fort Worth<\/li>\n<li>MSP \u2013 Minneapolis-Saint Paul<\/li>\n<li>DTW \u2013 Detroit-Wayne County<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In large metropolitan areas, it\u2019s not uncommon to see IATA codes given to airports, including private jet airports, that reflect the name of the airport versus the name of the city while a different IATA code is given to the city itself. A common example includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>London (LON) vs. Heathrow (LHR), Gatwick (LGW), London City (LCY), Stansted (STN), Luton (LTN), and Southend (SEN).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An IATA (International Air Transportation Association) code is a three-letter code that designates an airport located anywhere in the world, including private jet airports.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1402],"tags":[978],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88977,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61584\/revisions\/88977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}