Airport geeks may already know that airport codes are dished out by the International Air Transport Association, but did you know that the letters don’t always stand for something? Los Angeles, for example, simply added an ‘X’ when the codes were changed from two to three letters after the 1930s. Portland did the same to make PDX.

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