San Francisco International Airport (SFO): Why is San Francisco International Airport abbreviated as SFO?

A very simple way to decifer the airport codes, is you'd need to know the names of many of them to get it. In Canada all airport codes start with Y and have only a coincidental relevance to the city they serve. YYC - Calgary, YVR - Vancouver, YYZ - Toronto... The rest of the world has a seemingly more logical approach, though, as some posters noted with many codes taken and can't be repeated, some make more sense than others.

Also as city names change, the codes won't, for ease of everything. See BOM - Mumbai (formerly Bombay), SGN - Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). Many make sense if you give it a quick thought, SFO is a good example, LAX another, AMS...take your best shot.

At the end of the day there's no perfect answer beyond the fact that everytime an airport is opened it needs a 3 letter code, as more open we run out of options, some make sense, BOS - Boston some don't TXL - Berlin Tegel. More.

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