"Which Airport Are They Going to Name After Me?"

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MGMcAnick
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Re: "Which Airport Are They Going to Name After Me?"

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Wichita's airport was known as Mid Continent Airport from its inception in 1954 until November 13, 2014 when the name was officially changed to honor Dwight D Eisenhower. He was Kansas' favorite son, having grown up in Abilene, about 90 miles straight north of here.

If Wichita can wait 60 years to rename its airport for Ike, there is no hurry to name one for Drumpf. Maybe 60 years from now the populace will have forgotten how lousy a person and president he was.

Also, airport identifiers are seldom changed. JFK. formerly Idlewild, is the only one I can think of. For example, Chicago's O'hare uses the identifier ORD as it was originally Orchard airport. Internationally, US airport IDs are preceded with a K. That is one reason why Wichita's identifier is still ICT (Where did THAT come from?) in the US, and KICT internationally. There was a movement to change it to IKE when the name was changed in 2014. It was quickly quashed.
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Big RR
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Re: "Which Airport Are They Going to Name After Me?"

Post by Big RR »

The other good thing is that, absent a popular mandate, people ignore the new names. Newark airport changed its name to Liberty International, but, other than in the airport (and even then it's Newark Liberty), I have never heard anyone use the name for Newark Airport; ditto for Reagan instead of Washington National. Kennedy is one of the few that appears to have caught on (maybe O"Hare as well); most are known only by the city they are in or near. So may it be with any Trump airport; and FWIW, I would pay more for a longer routing to avoid landing there.

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