{"id":4866,"date":"2018-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/?p=4866"},"modified":"2020-04-02T05:34:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T19:34:58","slug":"do-you-know-airport-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/quizzes\/do-you-know-airport-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you know your airport codes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You take the low road, I\u2019ll take the high code.<\/p>\n<p>Ever wonder what distinguishes a flight to Melbourne, Australia, from one to Melbourne, Canada? Or how you can be sure you have a plane ticket to Birmingham, England, and not Birmingham, Alabama? Luckily, there\u2019s a few letters we can thank for that. In fact, just three little letters do a whole heap of work!<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve probably seen airport codes on your plane tickets before &#8211; like SYD-BNE or MEL-LAX \u2013 and may not have thought twice about where they come from. There\u2019s no official naming convention \u2013 it might be the first three letters from the destination name, an acronym, a geographical reference, or even a traditional name. OMG! [Also known as Omega Aiport in Namibia \ud83d\ude09]<\/p>\n<p>With thousands of airports around the world, the International Air Transport Association (or IATA) was tasked with the important job of defining the world\u2019s airport codes \u2013 and even update the official list twice a year.<\/p>\n<p>But would you notice if they made a change? How well do you fare when it comes to your knowledge of airport codes? Take this 15-question quiz to find out<br \/>\n<div class='quizz-container' data-quiz='456780' data-width='100%' data-height='auto' data-auto-redirect='true'><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You take the low road, I\u2019ll take the high code. Ever wonder what distinguishes a flight to Melbourne, Australia, from one to Melbourne, Canada? Or how you can be sure you have a plane ticket to Birmingham, England, and not Birmingham, Alabama? Luckily, there\u2019s a few letters we can thank for that. In fact, just &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":4882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4866"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5045,"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions\/5045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wotif.com\/vc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}