Hi Pembo,
the four letter codes are the ICAO codes used for flight planning and mapping, wheras the 3-letter codes are the ones usually seen by the pax as lare 3 letter ocdes on baggage – this is where we get the LBA, LHR, MAN, LGW etc from
Dan330
Newcastle = EGNT
All countries use the same system
for example some others are: –
KJFK, John F Kennedy,
LEPA, Plama de Mallorca,
LFPG, Paris CDG,
LPFR, Faro,
ESSA, Stockholm Arlanda
if you notice southern europe airfields usually start with an L, then and idividual country letter (e.g. spain is alway LE – LEPA Palma, LEMH Mahon, LEMG Malaga, LEIB Ibiza, LEGE Girona and El pPrat LEBL. In Spain the last 2 letters seem to correspond somehow to the airport name – LEMG, MG MalaGa, LEIB IBiza.
In the uk a differant system is used
e.g – Northern England
EGNM – Leeds,
EGNJ, Humberside,
EGNT, Newcastle
EGNV, Teeside
EGNX, East MIds – starting to notice a pattern – all EGN? N is the UK north designator.
The larger airports wjhen this system was introduced in the UK got double letters to show this
EGCC – Manchester,
EGLL – Heathrow,
EGSS – Stansted
EGKK – Gatwick,
Patterns the same in Scotland and NI
EGPF – Glasgow
EGPH Edinburgh
EGPD – Aberdeen
EGAA – Aldergrove
EGAC – Belfast City.
Hope its clearing this up for you a bit!
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