Well, there’s lots of fun to be had combining airport codes. Get an airline ticket from San Vito, Costa Rica to Helsinki, Finland to Anderson, USA and then to Baku, Azerbaijan and your luggage tag would read TOO-HEL-AND-BAK.
As for single airport codes here are Spot Cool Stuff’s five favorites:
#5 SEX – Sembach, Germany
Want to send your luggage away for a weekend of debauchery? Apparently this airport is ideal.
#4 FAR – Fargo, North Dakota, USA
The thing of it being that Fargo is indeed not close to much of anything.
#3 SUX – Sioux City, Iowa, USA
Sioux City isn’t really that bad.
#2 FUK – Fukuoka, Japan
Spot Cool Stuff’s former home airport; our admittedly juvenile selves had to snicker a bit whenever we checked a bag to there.
#1 YYZ – Toronto
All airports in Canada have an airport code that starts with Y. Most have some logic to them; eg. YQM is Quebec’s Montreal airport. But for some inexplicable reason Toronto is YYZ. We love the randomness of that. YYZ is also the only airport code to become the title of a popular song, an instrumental from Canadian rock band Rush. The song is meant to capture the spirit of the Toronto airport, from the stop-and-go nature of waiting for flights to the roar of jet planes. Click below to hear snippets of two versions of YYZ-the-song: the first is the 1981 Rush original, the second is a more mellow version from The Vitamin String Quartet (which does cool classical music renditions of every Rush tune from their album Exit… Stage Right as well as covers of popular hits from Metallica, Michael Jackson and Queen among others, though now we are really getting off topic).
