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diamond geezer | Homepage | 16.09.06 - 9:09 a.m. | #
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The correct answer is the 3rd option each time
diamond geezer | Homepage | 16.09.06 - 9:10 a.m. | #
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Wooo! 12 right.
ian | Homepage | 16.09.06 - 9:37 a.m. | #
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Of the ones in your list, the only ones I can be sure are actually commonly referred to as the "people" names attributed to them are: Charles de Gaulle, JFK, and Dulles.
e.g. Ronald Reagan is still "Washington National", Franz Josef Strauss is still "Munich Airport" etc. etc.
Jag | Homepage | 16.09.06 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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Ooh you've got me going now. I agree with you entirely with disliking the practice and wish that they would just name the airport after the city it is in. Trouble is that sometimes they either give it a silly name or mislead you into thinking that the airport is anywhere near the city of the same name.
However this is not entirely a modern practice. The first controlled aircraft flew in 1903 and by 1947 New York's then only airport was officially called LaGuardia after the city's Mayor. In reality is it really better to name one of the worlds busiest International Airports after a insignificant row of houses that were demolished in its construction ? - and not even spell the name correctly. Welcome to Heathrow (built at Heath Row).
And if you look back further we did it with public houses and roads and then stations. St. Pancras and Victoria are obvious examples but Liverpool Street is named after a street which in turn was named after Lord Liverpool. And who on earth would name a mainline station after a fictious bear ?
Pedantic of Purley | 16.09.06 - 10:07 a.m. | #
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Of course far worse is Ryanair's practice of naming airports after a city that's actually somewhere between fifty and a hundred miles away, such as "Glasgow Prestwick", "Brussels Charleroi" or "Frankfurt Hahn".
Alan | Homepage | 16.09.06 - 10:40 a.m. | #
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Howabout London City? 
Jon Deane | Homepage | 16.09.06 - 11:21 a.m. | #
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At first reading (I need an eye test) it looked liked they'd named an airport after a president's incontinence.
NiC | Homepage | 16.09.06 - 1:29 p.m. | #
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My other half recently led a campaign to have Cork Airport renamed "Rory Gallagher Airport". I wasn't sure whether it was the right thing to do but he was keen.
Sharon J | Homepage | 16.09.06 - 2:15 p.m. | #
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9 right .....
and i completely agree with alan. the number of people that i have known to get a taxi 'to the airport' and end up at zaventem airport rather than charleroi, because they don't know any better is .... a lot.
zoe | Homepage | 16.09.06 - 2:17 p.m. | #
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Baltimore/Washington International Airport, also known as BWI, has recently been given a person's name. It's now called Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, in reference to the the first African American Supreme Court Justice. All three Washington DC area airports are now person-named.
Of course, everyone still calls it BWI.
As far as Reagon/National is concernced, you can tell the political leanings of a person in Washington DC by the name they use. If they are Republican, they call it "Reagan." Democrats call it, "National."
Josh | Homepage | 16.09.06 - 2:31 p.m. | #
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DG, you're dead right (sorry about the pun) in what you say about giving airports the names of deceased people.
For example, you land at Palermo and first thing you see is the name of the airport in huge bright letters on top of the terminal's building:
FALCONE - BORSALINO
So you ask,
-'Who are those?'
and they tell you,
-'Two guys the Maffia killed'
Very encouraging to the foreign visitor -especially when you learn that the former was actually killed on the motorway that links Palermo to the airport.
I don't mean to make jokes about Maffia killings. All my respect and admiration to the memory of judges Falcone and Borsalino. But was it really necessary to rename Palermo airport?
Pepe, in Spain. | 16.09.06 - 3:41 p.m. | #
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'Diamond Geezer Airport' has a certain East End ring to it... London City - are you reading?
I still think fondly of William Hague's suggestion to rename Heathrow, 'Princess Diana Airport'.
drD | Homepage | 16.09.06 - 3:55 p.m. | #
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At least the dead people DG names are famous outside their own countries. Toronto Pearson is named after some dead former Canadian Premier that nobody outside of Canada has ever heard of.
Worse even is Narita (Tokyo) or the old Kimpo (Seoul). WTF are those named after?
They tried to re-name our local international airport after the late US senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson. Well, Seattle tried. But Tacoma, which has veto power over affairs related to the airport, told Seattle to stuff it up their ass. They were happy with the name Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (known locally as Sea-Tac).
David Crawford | 16.09.06 - 3:57 p.m. | #
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I totally refuse to refer to Washington National as Reagan. Wrong on so many levels. And I'm with you - I need to know where I'm going.
Pity poor Atlanta (one of the busiest airports in the US) - was "Hartsfield" after the 1930's mayor who revved up the old airport there. Then Maynard Jackson, first black mayor of Atlanta, died so they tacked his name on. Now: Hartsfield-Jackson. I'm sure they're not finished. When current mayor Shirley Franklin dies, expect Franklin-Hartsfield-Jackson. But the rest of the world just calls it - and rightly so - Atlanta Airport.
MaryB | Homepage | 16.09.06 - 5:03 p.m. | #
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On a visit to New Orleans I was amused to land at Louis Armstrong Airport. No disrespect to the great man or indeed the great city, but it seemed so wrong, and strange.
But it did mean I was mouth trumpeting through baggage reclaim, making it more appealing.
Re John Lennon and Liverpool airport. Am I right in thinking that the tagline for the airport is "Above us only Sky"? Again, seems entirely laughable.
The Randomaniac | Homepage | 16.09.06 - 6:37 p.m. | #
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My brain tells me there's a connection between La Guardia and the Mafia. But my brain is often wrong.
Fatima | 16.09.06 - 11:48 p.m. | #
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When will Warsaw airport be renamed "Lech Walesa airport", or even "Pope John Paul II airport"?
Either of those would be fun.
Lyle | Homepage | 17.09.06 - 12:02 p.m. | #
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Lech Walesa airport is in Gdansk. Naming Warsaw the same would only cause confusion / give Ryanair the chance to fly you to the wrong place.
ian | Homepage | 17.09.06 - 1:11 p.m. | #
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Whatever made me write 'Mafia' with a double 'f' in my post above? Must have been sheer ffright.
Pepe, in Spain | 17.09.06 - 3:58 p.m. | #
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You missed my favorite..
John Wayne Airport - which used to be known as Orange County Airport, just south of LA.
As for La Guardia, he was a pugnacious reforming NYC mayor of the 1940's. He destroyed the last of the Tammany Hall machine that had survived from the days of "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker. He was quite a character and probably the last honest and effective major that NYC had until Giuliani came along.
jmc | 17.09.06 - 8:34 p.m. | #
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13/15.
The people of Nottingham were allegedly rather upset when the old RAF Finningley airbase was named Robin Hood Airport instead of just Doncaster Airport - even though the only historical Robin Hood in surviving records both was born and died far closer to Doncaster than Nottingham.
Forest Pines | Homepage | 17.09.06 - 9:32 p.m. | #
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I got 14 out of 15, it was Strauss that threw me.
Apparently when you take off from London Heliport the first thing you see is the Matthew Harding stand at Chelsea FC
(I got that bit of trivia from T. Blair Esq)
Gert | Homepage | 18.09.06 - 5:52 p.m. | #
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I'd never really thought about this before (and did rather badly in the quiz: maybe 10 right). But it got me thinking, here in Tenerife we have two airports one in the north, called Los Rodeos, which is not, I don't think, called after a person. (Nor does that refer to the wild ride you might get on the runway.) But the airport in the south is named Reina Sofia (Queen Sofia), after the current and living Queen of Spain. Of course, when you have to explain anything to anyone, Tenerife North and Tenerife South do just fine for reference. The other names just confuse.
Pamela | Homepage | 19.09.06 - 6:53 p.m. | #
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