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The
ICAO (
International Phonetic Alphabet: )
airport code or
location indicator is a four-letter alphanumeric
code designating each airport around the world. These codes are defined by the
International Civil Aviation Organization, and published in ICAO Document 7910:
Location Indicators.
The ICAO codes are used by air traffic control and airline operations such as flight planning. They are not the same as the IATA airport code encountered by the general public, which are used for
airline timetables,
reservations, and
baggage handling. For example, travellers who use London's London Heathrow Airport will most likely be familliar with its IATA code: LHR. The travelling public are less likely, however, to be familiar with the ICAO code: EGLL.
ICAO codes are also used to identify other locations such as
weather stations, International Flight Service Stations or Area Control Centers, whether or not they are located at airports.
Unlike the IATA codes, the ICAO codes have a regional structure, are not duplicated and are comprehensive. In general, the first letter is allocated by continent and represents a country or group of countries within that continent. The second letter generally represents a country within that region, and the remaining two are used to identify each airport. Using the earlier example as Heathrow airport, if one knows that the ICAO code for Heathrow is EGLL, then one can deduce that the airport EGNH is somewhere in the UK (it is Blackpool International Airport). On the other hand, knowing that the IATA code for Heathrow is LHR does not enable one to deduce the airport LHQ with any greater certainty (it is
Fairfield County Airport in Ohio in the
United States). The exception to this rule is larger countries that have single-letter country codes, where the remaining three letters identify the airport.
In the contiguous United States and
Canada, most, but not all, airports have been assigned three-letter IATA codes which are the same as their ICAO code without the leading K or C. e.g., YYC and CYYC (
Calgary International Airport, Calgary, Alberta), IAD and KIAD (
Dulles International Airport,
Chantilly, Virginia). These codes are not to be confused with radio or television
call signs, even though both countries use four-letter call signs starting with those letters.
In region
L (Southern Europe), all available 2-letter prefixes have been exhausted and thus no additional countries can be added.
However, because Alaska, Hawaii and other United States territories have their own 2-letter ICAO prefix, the situation there is similar to other smaller countries and the ICAO code of their airports is typically different from its corresponding 3-letter FAA/IATA identifier. For example,
Hilo International Airport (PHTO vs ITO) and
Juneau International Airport (PAJN vs JNU).
ZZZZ is a special code which is used when no ICAO code exists for the airport and is normally used in
Flight plans.
A List of airports by ICAO code, sorted by ICAO code, is available.
Prefixes
--{| class="prettytable sortable"|-! Prefix code !! Country|-!||
A - Western South Pacific] ||
Solomon Islands || [Nauru || [Papua New Guinea || [Greenland || [Iceland || [Canada || [Algeria || [Benin || [Burkina Faso || [Ghana || [Côte d'Ivoire || [Nigeria || [Niger || [Tunisia || [Togolese Republic || [Belgium || [Germany (civil)] || Estonia || [Finland || [United Kingdom || [Netherlands || [Republic of Ireland || [Denmark || [Luxembourg || [Norway || [Poland || [Sweden || [Germany (military)] ||
Latvia || [Lithuania || [South Africa || [Botswana || [Republic of the Congo || [Swaziland || [Central African Republic || [Equatorial Guinea || [Ascension Island || [Mauritius || [British Indian Ocean Territory || [Cameroon || [Zambia || [Comoros, Madagascar,
Mayotte, Réunion || [Angola || [Gabon || [São Tomé and Príncipe || [Mozambique || [Seychelles || [Chad || [Zimbabwe || [Malawi || [Lesotho || [Namibia || [Democratic Republic of the Congo || [Mali || [The Gambia || [Canary Islands (
Spain)] || Ceuta and Melilla (Spain)] || Sierra Leone || [Guinea-Bissau || [Liberia || [Morocco || [Senegal || [Mauritania || [Western Sahara || [Guinea || [Cape Verde || [Ethiopia || [Burundi || [Somalia || [Djibouti
(also HF)] ||
Egypt || [Djibouti (also HD)] || Eritrea || [Kenya || [Libya || [Rwanda || [Sudan || [Tanzania || [Uganda || Mainland [United States of America || [Albania || [Bulgaria || [Cyprus || [Croatia || [Spain || [France, including
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon || [Greece || [Hungary || [Italy || [Slovenia || [Czech Republic || [Israel || [Malta || [Monaco || [Austria || [Portugal, including the Azores || [Bosnia and Herzegovina || [Romania || [Switzerland || [Turkey || [Moldova || [Gaza Strip || [Republic of Macedonia|-|List of airports by ICAO code: L#LX - Gibraltar ||
Gibraltar || [Serbia and Montenegro || [Slovakia || [Turks and Caicos Islands || [Dominican Republic || [Guatemala || [Honduras || [Jamaica || [Mexico || [Nicaragua || [Panama || [Costa Rica || [El Salvador || [Haiti || [Cuba || [Cayman Islands || [Bahamas || [Belize|-|[List of airports by ICAO code: N#NC - Cook Islands ||
Cook Islands || [Fiji, Tonga || [Kiribati (Gilbert Islands), Tuvalu || [Niue || [Wallis and Futuna || [Samoa, American Samoa || [French Polynesia || [Vanuatu || [New Caledonia || [New Zealand, Antarctica (excluding Israel), Afghanistan and Pakistan|-|[List of airports by ICAO code: O#OA - Afghanistan ||
Afghanistan || [Bahrain || [Saudi Arabia || [Iran || [Jordan and the West Bank || [Kuwait || [Lebanon || [United Arab Emirates || [Oman || [Pakistan || [Iraq || [Syria || [Qatar || [Yemen|-|[List of airports by ICAO code: P#PA - Alaska || Alaska only] || Baker Island || [Kiribati (Canton Airfield,
Phoenix Islands)] || Fort Yukon, Alaska || [Guam,
Northern Marianas || [Hawaii only|-|
List of airports by ICAO code: P#PJ - Johnston Atoll ||
Johnston Atoll || [Marshall Islands || [Kiribati (
Line Islands)] || Midway Island || Oliktok Point, [Alaska || [Point Lay, Alaska || [Federated States of Micronesia,
Palau || [Wake Island|-|[List of airports by ICAO code: R#RC - Taiwan ||
Republic of China (Taiwan)] ||
Japan (most of country)] ||
South Korea || [Japan (
Okinawa Prefecture and
Yoron, Kagoshima)|-|List of airports by ICAO code: R#RP - Philippines || Philippines || [Argentina || [Brazil
(also SD, SN, SS and SW)] ||
Chile || [Brazil (also SB, SN, SS and SW)] || Ecuador || [Falkland Islands || [Paraguay || [Colombia || [Bolivia || [Suriname || [Brazil
(also SB, SD, SS and SW)] || French Guiana || [Peru || [Brazil
(also SB, SD, SN and SW)] ||
Uruguay || [Venezuela || [Brazil (also SB, SD, SN and SS)] ||
Guyana || [Antigua and Barbuda || [Barbados || [Dominica || [Guadeloupe || [Grenada || [U.S. Virgin Islands || [Puerto Rico || [Saint Kitts and Nevis || [Saint Lucia || [Netherlands Antilles,
Aruba || [Anguilla || [Montserrat || [Trinidad and Tobago || [British Virgin Islands || [Saint Vincent and the Grenadines || [Bermuda || [Russia (except UA, UB, UD, UG, UK, UM and UT)] || Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan || [Azerbaijan || [Armenia || [Georgia (country)|-|
List of airports by ICAO code: U#UK - Ukraine || Ukraine || [Belarus || [Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan (except Afghanistan and Pakistan) and mainland [Southeast Asia] || India (West Zone, Mumbai Center)] || Sri Lanka || [Cambodia || India (East Zone, [Kolkata Center)] ||
Bangladesh || [Hong Kong, China || India (North Zone, [Delhi Center)] || Laos || [Macau,
China || [Nepal || India (South Zone, [Chennai Center)] ||
Bhutan || [Maldives || [Thailand || [Vietnam || [Myanmar (except the Philippines)|-|[List of airports by ICAO code: W#WA - Indonesia || Indonesia
(also WI, WQ and WR)] ||
Malaysia (also WM), Brunei || Indonesia
(also WA, WQ and WR)|-|[List of airports by ICAO code: W#WM - Malaysia || Malaysia
(also WB)|-|List of airports by ICAO code: W#WP - Timor-Leste || East Timor|-|
List of airports by ICAO code: W#WQ - Indonesia || Indonesia
(also WA, WI and WR)|-|
List of airports by ICAO code: W#WR - Indonesia || Indonesia
(also WA, WI and WQ)|-|
List of airports by ICAO code: W#WS - Singapore || Singapore || [Australia || [People's Republic of China
(except ZK and ZM)] || North Korea || [Mongolia|}
See also
External links
- International Civil Aviation Organization (official site)
- ICAO On-line Publications Purchasing (official site)
- Catalogue of ICAO Airfields
- ICAO airport code prefixes
The
ICAO (International Phonetic Alphabet: )
airport code or
location indicator is a four-letter alphanumeric
code designating each airport around the world. These codes are defined by the
International Civil Aviation Organization, and published in ICAO Document 7910:
Location Indicators.
The ICAO codes are used by
air traffic control and airline operations such as
flight planning. They are not the same as the
IATA airport code encountered by the general public, which are used for airline
timetables,
reservations, and
baggage handling. For example, travellers who use London's
London Heathrow Airport will most likely be familliar with its IATA code: LHR. The travelling public are less likely, however, to be familiar with the ICAO code: EGLL.
ICAO codes are also used to identify other locations such as weather stations, International Flight Service Stations or
Area Control Centers, whether or not they are located at airports.
Unlike the IATA codes, the ICAO codes have a regional structure, are not duplicated and are comprehensive. In general, the first letter is allocated by continent and represents a country or group of countries within that continent. The second letter generally represents a country within that region, and the remaining two are used to identify each airport. Using the earlier example as Heathrow airport, if one knows that the ICAO code for Heathrow is EGLL, then one can deduce that the airport EGNH is somewhere in the UK (it is Blackpool International Airport). On the other hand, knowing that the IATA code for Heathrow is LHR does not enable one to deduce the airport LHQ with any greater certainty (it is Fairfield County Airport in Ohio in the
United States). The exception to this rule is larger countries that have single-letter country codes, where the remaining three letters identify the airport.
In the contiguous United States and
Canada, most, but not all, airports have been assigned three-letter IATA codes which are the same as their ICAO code without the leading K or C. e.g., YYC and CYYC (
Calgary International Airport, Calgary, Alberta), IAD and KIAD (Dulles International Airport,
Chantilly, Virginia). These codes are not to be confused with radio or television call signs, even though both countries use four-letter call signs starting with those letters.
In region
L (Southern Europe), all available 2-letter prefixes have been exhausted and thus no additional countries can be added.
However, because Alaska, Hawaii and other United States territories have their own 2-letter ICAO prefix, the situation there is similar to other smaller countries and the ICAO code of their airports is typically different from its corresponding 3-letter FAA/IATA identifier. For example,
Hilo International Airport (PHTO vs ITO) and Juneau International Airport (PAJN vs JNU).
ZZZZ is a special code which is used when no ICAO code exists for the airport and is normally used in Flight plans.
A List of airports by ICAO code, sorted by ICAO code, is available.
Prefixes
--{| class="prettytable sortable"|-! Prefix code !! Country|-!||
A - Western South Pacific] ||
Solomon Islands || [Nauru || [Papua New Guinea || [Greenland || [Iceland || [Canada || [Algeria || [Benin || [Burkina Faso || [Ghana || [Côte d'Ivoire || [Nigeria || [Niger || [Tunisia || [Togolese Republic || [Belgium || [Germany (civil)] || Estonia || [Finland || [United Kingdom || [Netherlands || [Republic of Ireland || [Denmark || [Luxembourg || [Norway || [Poland || [Sweden || [Germany (military)] ||
Latvia || [Lithuania || [South Africa || [Botswana || [Republic of the Congo || [Swaziland || [Central African Republic || [Equatorial Guinea || [Ascension Island || [Mauritius || [British Indian Ocean Territory || [Cameroon || [Zambia || [Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte,
Réunion || [Angola || [Gabon || [São Tomé and Príncipe || [Mozambique || [Seychelles || [Chad || [Zimbabwe || [Malawi || [Lesotho || [Namibia || [Democratic Republic of the Congo || [Mali || [The Gambia || [Canary Islands (Spain)] ||
Ceuta and Melilla (Spain)] || Sierra Leone || [Guinea-Bissau || [Liberia || [Morocco || [Senegal || [Mauritania || [Western Sahara || [Guinea || [Cape Verde || [Ethiopia || [Burundi || [Somalia || [Djibouti
(also HF)] ||
Egypt || [Djibouti (also HD)] ||
Eritrea || [Kenya || [Libya || [Rwanda || [Sudan || [Tanzania || [Uganda || Mainland [United States of America || [Albania || [Bulgaria || [Cyprus || [Croatia || [Spain || [France, including
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon || [Greece || [Hungary || [Italy || [Slovenia || [Czech Republic || [Israel || [Malta || [Monaco || [Austria || [Portugal, including the Azores || [Bosnia and Herzegovina || [Romania || [Switzerland || [Turkey || [Moldova || [Gaza Strip || [Republic of Macedonia|-|
List of airports by ICAO code: L#LX - Gibraltar || Gibraltar || [Serbia and Montenegro || [Slovakia || [Turks and Caicos Islands || [Dominican Republic || [Guatemala || [Honduras || [Jamaica || [Mexico || [Nicaragua || [Panama || [Costa Rica || [El Salvador || [Haiti || [Cuba || [Cayman Islands || [Bahamas || [Belize|-|[List of airports by ICAO code: N#NC - Cook Islands || Cook Islands || [Fiji, Tonga || [Kiribati (
Gilbert Islands),
Tuvalu || [Niue || [Wallis and Futuna || [Samoa,
American Samoa || [French Polynesia || [Vanuatu || [New Caledonia || [New Zealand, Antarctica (excluding Israel), Afghanistan and Pakistan|-|[List of airports by ICAO code: O#OA - Afghanistan ||
Afghanistan || [Bahrain || [Saudi Arabia || [Iran || [Jordan and the
West Bank || [Kuwait || [Lebanon || [United Arab Emirates || [Oman || [Pakistan || [Iraq || [Syria || [Qatar || [Yemen|-|[List of airports by ICAO code: P#PA - Alaska || Alaska only] ||
Baker Island || [Kiribati (Canton Airfield,
Phoenix Islands)] ||
Fort Yukon, Alaska || [Guam, Northern Marianas || [Hawaii only|-|List of airports by ICAO code: P#PJ - Johnston Atoll || Johnston Atoll || [Marshall Islands || [Kiribati (
Line Islands)] ||
Midway Island || Oliktok Point, [Alaska || [Point Lay, Alaska || [Federated States of Micronesia,
Palau || [Wake Island|-|[List of airports by ICAO code: R#RC - Taiwan ||
Republic of China (Taiwan)] || Japan (most of country)] || South Korea || [Japan (
Okinawa Prefecture and
Yoron, Kagoshima)|-|
List of airports by ICAO code: R#RP - Philippines || Philippines || [Argentina || [Brazil
(also SD, SN, SS and SW)] ||
Chile || [Brazil (also SB, SN, SS and SW)] || Ecuador || [Falkland Islands || [Paraguay || [Colombia || [Bolivia || [Suriname || [Brazil
(also SB, SD, SS and SW)] ||
French Guiana || [Peru || [Brazil (also SB, SD, SN and SW)] || Uruguay || [Venezuela || [Brazil
(also SB, SD, SN and SS)] ||
Guyana || [Antigua and Barbuda || [Barbados || [Dominica || [Guadeloupe || [Grenada || [U.S. Virgin Islands || [Puerto Rico || [Saint Kitts and Nevis || [Saint Lucia || [Netherlands Antilles,
Aruba || [Anguilla || [Montserrat || [Trinidad and Tobago || [British Virgin Islands || [Saint Vincent and the Grenadines || [Bermuda || [Russia (except UA, UB, UD, UG, UK, UM and UT)] ||
Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan || [Azerbaijan || [Armenia || [Georgia (country)|-|
List of airports by ICAO code: U#UK - Ukraine || Ukraine || [Belarus || [Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan (except Afghanistan and Pakistan) and mainland [Southeast Asia] || India (West Zone,
Mumbai Center)] ||
Sri Lanka || [Cambodia || India (East Zone, [Kolkata Center)] || Bangladesh || [Hong Kong,
China || India (North Zone, [Delhi Center)] || Laos || [Macau,
China || [Nepal || India (South Zone, [Chennai Center)] ||
Bhutan || [Maldives || [Thailand || [Vietnam || [Myanmar (except the Philippines)|-|[List of airports by ICAO code: W#WA - Indonesia ||
Indonesia (also WI, WQ and WR)] || Malaysia
(also WM), Brunei || Indonesia
(also WA, WQ and WR)|-|[List of airports by ICAO code: W#WM - Malaysia || Malaysia
(also WB)|-|List of airports by ICAO code: W#WP - Timor-Leste || East Timor|-|
List of airports by ICAO code: W#WQ - Indonesia || Indonesia
(also WA, WI and WR)|-|List of airports by ICAO code: W#WR - Indonesia || Indonesia
(also WA, WI and WQ)|-|List of airports by ICAO code: W#WS - Singapore ||
Singapore || [Australia || [People's Republic of China (except ZK and ZM)] ||
North Korea || [Mongolia|}
See also
External links
- International Civil Aviation Organization (official site)
- ICAO On-line Publications Purchasing (official site)
- Catalogue of ICAO Airfields
- ICAO airport code prefixes
Index of ICAO Codes
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