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by skissane 581 days ago
> I assumed IATA messed up,

This isn’t IATA. IATA manages codes used for passenger and cargo bookings, which are distinct from the codes used by pilots and air traffic control we are talking about here-ultimately overseen by ICAO. These codes include a lot of stuff which is irrelevant to passengers/freight, such as navigation waypoints, military airbases (which normally would never accept a civilian flight, but still could be used for an emergency landing-plus civilian and military ATC coordinate with each other to avoid conflicts)
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marcosdumay 581 days ago
Hum, no. It's not about ICAO codes. It's about local UK codes, and IATA ones used by mistake.
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skissane 581 days ago
The code that caused the issue is DVL, which isn’t a “local UK code”, it is a code used by the FAA for a location in the US and a code used by EASA for a location in France. And I didn’t say ICAO issued the codes, I said the process of issuing them by regional/national aviation authorities is “ultimately overseen by ICAO”, which I believe is correct.
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