Saturday, November 14, 2009

The little airport that could

This is a detailed coverage of the airport activities. Yes, the deregulation of 1970s may be one of the most important factors which lead to the current status of the airport.

There is one little comment about the exact name of the airport. According to International Air Transport Association (IATA), MHT is originally the code for Manchester Airport, NH, USA. That was the situation until April 2006 when the airport management decided to add “Boston Regional” to the airport name to advertise its proximity to Boston, Massachusetts which is about 50 miles (80 km) to the south.

I am fully aware that the airport is in New England which is a geographic term refers to an area comprising of 6 states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

The nomenclature in airline literatures describes the location in the following sequence: airport code, city name, country name. In case of USA, the sequence is further expanded to allow the inclusion of the state name.

Yes, there are some airports which serve twin cities such as MSP for Minneapolis/ Saint Paul, and DFW for Dallas/ Fort Worth. As we can see, the two twin cities are at the same state. Obviously, this is not the case for Manchester (New Hampshire) and Boston (Massachusetts). Are they twin cities? Well, they might be distant cousins.

Date: 13 November 2009 commenting on http://www.londonderrynh.net/

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