Flying For Thanksgiving? Distract Yourself With Mystery Of Airport Codes

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November 25, 2015

Lynn Fisher and Nick Crohn created the website airportcod.es, which links hundreds of three-letter airport codes with a pretty picture and a brief story about the airport. (Screenshot from airportcod.es)

Lynn Fisher and Nick Crohn, two web designers from the Phoenix area, love airport codes. They launched the website airportcod.es in March that links hundreds of those three-letter codes with a pretty picture and a brief story about the airport - enough to keep you busy while you're waiting in line at one of those airports this week.

This story originally aired on April 1, 2015.

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Peter O’Dowd, assistant managing editor at Here & Now. He tweets @odowdpeter.

This segment aired on November 25, 2015.