Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for airport code. Search instead for airport+code.

airport code

American  

noun

  1. a three-letter abbreviation of the names of the world's major airports, used especially as an identifier for routing baggage.

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

PBI is the president’s home airport and will retain that airport code for now.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Notwithstanding the new name, the East Bay airport maintains its same OAK airport code and the “I Fly OAK” logo, and its runways continue to hug the east side of the San Francisco Bay.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2024

The tiny town’s airport code is SDY, while the Sydney in Australia is SYD.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023

After considering changing her last name to Morgan she decided on Mack, after ACK, the airport code for Nantucket.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2017

The allegations “resulted in launching an immediate and thorough investigation of the behavior detection program at HNL,” the TSA said in a statement, referring to Honolulu’s airport code.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2011

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.