WHERE THOSE ODD IDs COME FROM
Have you ever been puzzled by a three-letter airport identifier that seems to bear no resemblance to the airport's host city or the area it serves? If Denver International, logically, is DEN, why is Maui OGG? So intrigued was Don Smith, a retiree from American Airlines, that he researched all the...
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