To expand on that a bit further, P goes for pretty much everything in the US in the Eastern north Pacific Ocean. For example, PGUM for Guam, PGSN for Saipan, PKMJ for the Marshall Islands, etc.
Damiross’ second link for the ICAO codes does a really good explanation.
Geographically challenged I am… but how about airports that are located in states or islands / nations that border the Pacific Ocean outside the lower 48 - hence the meaning Pacific airports??
Shame on you, Allen. You gave the reference to the ICAO codes at the same time I did. Didn’t you read it? If so you would have found the answer. There’s a paraphrase of the answer in Wikipedia below (after my wagging of my fingering at flyboy97222).
What’s the use of providing a reference if you guys are going to be too lazy to reference it?
Had you looked it up, you would never have made such a dumb ass assumption.
The first letter, had you bothered to look it up, stands for the continent or a group of countries within in a region while the second letter generally represents a country within that region. The last two letters identify a specific airport.
An exception to the rule is where countries have a single letter code as in the case of the USA or Canada. In this case the remaining three letters identify the airport
P comes after K, so I didn’t need to go down that far to read it (original question was about K) and I was too tired and lazy tonight (past my bed time) to “re-wiki” thus me defaulting to my geographically challenged caveat amongst my rather lame guess.
What, you trying to kill me with health food flyboy?
Gotta remember where I live, I have to wait 40 years before we see stuff like that. Heck, saw for the first time two weeks ago at a store in podunct MS, they were selling dots that were “glued” on strips of paper. The only thing missing in that store was the nickle 10 pack of baseball cards with the pink strip of bubblegum! Talk about time warp!
I am sure Az and James at minimum remember these things