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Airport code lookup

Search by city, airport name, country or code to find an airport's three-letter IATA code, where it is, and what time it is there now.

Search 3,244 airports by city, airport name, country or code. City codes like LON and NYC work too.

What the codes mean

Every airport with scheduled flights has a three-letter IATA code, the one on your ticket, boarding pass and bag tag. Many come straight from the city or the airport's name, like SYD for Sydney or MAD for Madrid. Others keep a name the airport no longer uses: ORD for Chicago O'Hare comes from Orchard Field, and PEK for Beijing from Peking.

Pilots and air traffic control use four-letter ICAO codes instead (EGLL for Heathrow, KJFK for New York JFK). This lookup covers the IATA codes travelers see.

Codes of the world's busiest airports

CodeAirportCityCountry
ATLHartsfield Jackson Atlanta IntlAtlantaUnited States
DXBDubai IntlDubaiUnited Arab Emirates
DFWDallas Fort Worth IntlDallas-Fort WorthUnited States
HNDTokyo Haneda IntlTokyoJapan
LHRLondon HeathrowLondonUnited Kingdom
DENDenver IntlDenverUnited States
ORDChicago O'Hare IntlChicagoUnited States
ISTİstanbulIstanbulTürkiye
LAXLos Angeles IntlLos AngelesUnited States
DELIndira Gandhi IntlNew DelhiIndia
CDGCharles de Gaulle IntlParisFrance
JFKJohn F. Kennedy IntlNew YorkUnited States
CANGuangzhou Baiyun IntlGuangzhouChina
AMSAmsterdam SchipholAmsterdamNetherlands
PVGShanghai Pudong IntlShanghaiChina
SINSingapore ChangiSingaporeSingapore
ICNIncheon IntlSeoulSouth Korea
FRAFrankfurt MainFrankfurtGermany
MADAdolfo Suárez Madrid–BarajasMadridSpain
BKKSuvarnabhumiBangkokThailand
PEKBeijing Capital IntlBeijingChina
CLTCharlotte Douglas IntlCharlotteUnited States
LASHarry Reid IntlLas VegasUnited States
MCOOrlando IntlOrlandoUnited States
MIAMiami IntlMiamiUnited States
SEASeattle–Tacoma IntlSeattleUnited States
SFOSan Francisco IntlSan FranciscoUnited States
EWRNewark Liberty IntlNewarkUnited States
PHXPhoenix Sky Harbor IntlPhoenixUnited States
IAHGeorge Bush IntercontinentalHoustonUnited States
BOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj IntlMumbaiIndia
CGKSoekarno-Hatta IntlJakartaIndonesia
SZXShenzhen Bao'an IntlShenzhenChina
CTUChengdu Shuangliu IntlChengduChina
KULKuala Lumpur IntlKuala LumpurMalaysia
DOHHamad IntlDohaQatar
BCNJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El PratBarcelonaSpain
FCORome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci IntlRomeItaly
HKGHong Kong IntlHong KongHong Kong SAR China
MEXMexico City Benito Juárez IntlMexico CityMexico
SYDSydney Kingsford Smith IntlSydneyAustralia
MNLNinoy Aquino IntlManilaPhilippines
YYZToronto Pearson IntlTorontoCanada
NRTNarita IntlTokyoJapan
BOSBoston Logan IntlBostonUnited States
MSPMinneapolis–Saint Paul Intl / Wold–Chamberlain FieldMinneapolisUnited States
LGWLondon GatwickLondonUnited Kingdom
MUCMunichMunichGermany
TPETaiwan Taoyuan IntlTaipeiTaiwan
RUHKing Khalid IntlRiyadhSaudi Arabia
JEDKing Abdulaziz IntlJeddahSaudi Arabia
AUHZayed IntlAbu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates
BLRKempegowda Intl BengaluruBengaluruIndia
SVOSheremetyevo IntlMoscowRussia
GRUSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro IntlSão PauloBrazil
BOGEl Dorado IntlBogotáColombia
CUNCancún IntlCancúnMexico
SAWIstanbul Sabiha Gökçen IntlIstanbulTürkiye
ZRHZürichZurichSwitzerland
CPHCopenhagen KastrupCopenhagenDenmark
DUBDublinDublinIreland
VIEVienna IntlViennaAustria
LISLisbon Humberto DelgadoLisbonPortugal
ORYParis-OrlyParisFrance
OSLOslo-Gardermoen IntlOsloNorway
ARNStockholm-ArlandaStockholmSweden
HELHelsinki VantaaHelsinkiFinland
BRUBrusselsBrusselsBelgium
MANManchesterManchesterUnited Kingdom
ATHAthens Eleftherios Venizelos IntlAthensGreece
MXPMilan Malpensa IntlMilanItaly
PMIPalma de MallorcaPalma de MallorcaSpain
AGPMálaga-Costa del SolMálagaSpain
PRGVáclav Havel PraguePragueCzechia
WAWWarsaw ChopinWarsawPoland
BUDBudapest Liszt Ferenc IntlBudapestHungary
EDIEdinburghEdinburghUnited Kingdom
STNLondon StanstedLondonUnited Kingdom
MELMelbourneMelbourneAustralia
BNEBrisbane IntlBrisbaneAustralia
AKLAuckland IntlAucklandNew Zealand
PERPerth IntlPerthAustralia
KIXKansai IntlOsakaJapan
CTSNew ChitoseSapporoJapan
FUKFukuokaFukuokaJapan
OKANaha IntlOkinawaJapan
GMPSeoul Gimpo IntlSeoulSouth Korea
CJUJeju IntlJeju CitySouth Korea
HANNoi Bai IntlHanoiVietnam
SGNTan Son Nhat IntlHo Chi Minh CityVietnam
XMNXiamen Gaoqi IntlXiamenChina
HGHHangzhou Xiaoshan IntlHangzhouChina
CKGChongqing Jiangbei IntlChongqingChina
KMGKunming Changshui IntlKunmingChina
WUHWuhan Tianhe IntlWuhanChina
NKGNanjing Lukou IntlNanjingChina
SHAShanghai Hongqiao IntlShanghaiChina
PKXBeijing Daxing IntlBeijingChina
TFUChengdu Tianfu IntlChengduChina
HYDRajiv Gandhi IntlHyderabadIndia

Questions

What is an IATA airport code?

The three-letter code the International Air Transport Association gives every airport with scheduled flights: JFK, LHR, DXB. It's the code on your ticket, your boarding pass and your bag tag, and no two airports share one.

What's the difference between IATA and ICAO codes?

IATA codes have three letters and are what travelers see: timetables, tickets, baggage. ICAO codes have four letters and are what pilots and air traffic control use: Heathrow is LHR to IATA and EGLL to ICAO, New York JFK is KJFK.

What do LON, NYC and other city codes mean?

They're metropolitan codes covering every airport in a city: LON for London's airports (Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and more), NYC for New York's (JFK, LaGuardia and Newark), TYO for Tokyo's. Booking sites use them to search all of a city's airports at once. Search one here to see the airports it covers.

Why is Chicago O'Hare's code ORD?

It comes from Orchard Field, the airport's name before it was renamed after the naval aviator Butch O'Hare in 1949. The code stayed. Codes from old names are common: Beijing Capital is still PEK, from Peking.

How many airports can I search?

3,244: every large and medium airport with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, from the public-domain OurAirports database.

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