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IATA Airport code

ID iataairportcode

An IATA airport code, also known as an IATA location identifier, IATA station code, or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter geocode designating many airports and metropolitan areas around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA)

Pattern of

Airport location identifier airport

Categories

Transportation

Countries

Global (not tied to a country)

Languages

Common to most languages

AutoType benchmark

airport

FTA

AIRPORT_CODE.IATA

Schema.org

iataCode

Wikidata

P238

Quality

80/100 · missing: anchored regexp, negative example, translation

Metacrafter rules

1 rule (1 by field name, 0 by value)

• iataairportcodefield field, common/transport.yaml

Supported by tools

Auto-Type, FTA (Fast Text Analysis), IBM Knowledge Catalog (IBM watsonx.data intelligence), metacrafter, Tableau, Talend (Qlik Talend Data Preparation, Data Catalog and Data Inventory)

Regular expression

[A-Z0-9]{3}

Python re syntax. Not anchored: it can match inside longer text.

Examples

Sources

• wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IATA_airport_code
• wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P238

Use this record

• Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/iataairportcode
• JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
• Improve it: edit data/datatypes/any/transport/air/iataairportcode.yaml on GitHub