airport codes

[Peter A. McGraw]

I'm not sure whether subsequent posters are quite understanding the
original query.  In Portland, it's common to hear the airport's code PDX
used as a nickname for the city itself--i.e., it isn't just an airport
anymore.  I think Portland State University uses "pdx.edu" as its e-mail
address (presumably because somebody else got "psu.edu" first).  To my
knowledge, RDU is still used as a name for the airport only, not for any of
the cities it serves or all of them collectively.

Peter Mc.

--On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 11:27 AM +0000 RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

> Here in Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill-Cary the code is well known--the
> weather folks on TV always refer to the airport as RDU. I have heard that
> the Chapel Hill and Cary folks would prefer RDC.



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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu