K ????

What does the K mean in airport codes. I know K is in the lower 48’s airport codes only, I think???

Hi will744

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=376521 should answer your question.

“K” is the letter assigned by the ICAO to the 48 contiguous United States. Other airports in the USA are assigned PA (Alaska) and PH (Hawaii).

Other regions of the world are assigned different letters.

Fore more information please go to the Wikipedia articles on Location Identifiers and ICAO airport codes.

Thank you lieberma and damiross!

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.

BL.

PA- stands for “Pacific airport” Hence PANC “Pacific Airport Anchorage” etc etc.

That doesn’t square with anything in Hawaii (PHNL, PHLI, PHOG, etc.), let alone Guam, or Marshall Islands, or Midway, or anything in that area.

Pacific, yes. but nothing more. Perhaps Pacific Alaska aNChorage, or something, but definitely not ‘Pacific Airport’…

BL.

PAFA- Fairbanks

Maybe it’s “Pacific Alaska”

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??

[quote=“lieberma”]

Here ya go!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internatio … rport_code

P = Eastern North Pacific

PA - Alaska Only
PH - Hawaii Only
PG - Guam, Northern Marianas
PK - Marshall Islands
PW - Wake Island
PM - Midway Island

And by contrast,

NS - Samoa, American Samoa

Where N = South Pacific.

BL.

Thanks- I was too lazy to WIKI it

“ditto” tyketto

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

Nope.

P comes after K, so I didn’t need to go down that far to read it (original question was about K) :stuck_out_tongue: 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.

At least I had guessed the right ocean :smiley:

Okay. I’ll give that to you. Try a gallon or two of Diet Dr. Pepper - that will keep you awake and allow to you have a later bedtime. :slight_smile:

I have a feeling you might like Diet DP… :laughing:

Skip that diet stuff, that’s a four letter word.

I want the full unadulterated high octane flavor. Pass the Code Red please!! :stuck_out_tongue:

Kids stop drinking that crap- if you need energy drink ENDORUSH you can find it at GNC and most health stores.

What, you trying to kill me with health food flyboy? :stuck_out_tongue:

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 :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

HAHA here you go allen http://www.gnc.com/corp/index.jsp?page=storeLocator&zip=39211

:smiley: