A Closer Look At How Airfields And Airports Are Designated In The United States

It's easy to assume that airfield identifiers correlate with letters in the field's name: "JFK" because it's the initials of the late President after whom the airport is named; "MIA" because those are the first three letters in "Miami"; and "LAS" because that's the first half of "Las Vegas." Yet, it's actually way more complicated than that, involving at least three governing bodies with their own separate naming standards.

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