petakas wrote:
You missed London Southend airport ;-)
Ah we have Brussels South (EBCI). Taking the size of Belgium into account and the distance between Brussels and the belgian airports vs other countries I would propose to rename the Belgian airports as follows:
Brussels Center for EBBR
Brussels East for EBOS
Brussels North for EBAW
Brussels West for EBLG
and Brussels South for EBCI > ah no, we already have this one 
Brussels East for EBOS
Brussels West for EBLG
“Brussels North” has been suggested by some EBAW guys & girls a long while ago – in mockery, of course.
Regarding EBOS and EBLG, may I humbly suggest you check your compass/map reading 
?
Coming back to London: at one time there was even a mention of “London Manston”, if my old memory still serves. Ridiculous indeed. It all comes from the silly low-cost airlines. EBOS Ostend is indeed officially called “Ostend-Bruges Airport” in an effort to please one of them – they did come, but didn’t stay long …
Joe-fbs wrote:
I imagine that Erwin Rommel would not be too controversial.
You know that and I know that. But for a majority, I fear, he is just another of those „nazi generals“ who killed our boys by the thousands.
Regardaing stupid LoCo airport designations I can contribute Memmingen (EDJA) für „München Süd“.
There’s definitely something wrong with the compass. Augsburg is München West-by-North-by-West, and wasn’t Memmingen the same but a Bißle weiter?
Regarding the various Rommels: I am sure my children (in their 30’s) never heard of them. My grandchildren still less. The old scars are healing – and not before time.
I remember one slightly out of order night sitting together with fellow aviation people at a lovely mountain restaurant…
The guy from Geneva suggested to rename Zurich to “Geneva East” and Basel as “Geneva North”
The guy from Basel suggested to rename Zurich to Basel East, Bern to Basel South and he did not offer opinions of Geneva :)
I thought I´d be happy if Zurich became Zurich Airport again in the first place, as it was called “Unique” at the time.
Thankfully there was never an Unique North, West and East… otherwise it might have stuck…
I heard that Salzburg took issue with being called “Munich South” at a time :) Don´t blame them.
I heard Lousiville KY resisted a move for it´s international airport to be renamed “Col. Harland Sanders”….
