---
id: "icaoairlinecode"
kind: "pattern"
status: "stable"
is_pii: false
categories: ["transport"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/icaoairlinecode"
---

# ICAO Airline code (`icaoairlinecode`)

The ICAO airline designator is a code assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to aircraft operating agencies, aeronautical authorities, and services related to international aviation, each of which is allocated both a three-letter designator and a telephony designator.

- Pattern of: `airlinecode`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Transportation (transport)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
[A-Z0-9]{3}
```

## Examples

- `THY` — Turkish Airlines
- `BWG` — Blue Wings

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P230`

## Metacrafter rules

1 rules: 1 match the field name, 0 match values.

- `icaoairlinecodefield` (field, `common/transport.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_codes>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P230>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: anchored regexp, negative example, translation.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/icaoairlinecode.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/transport/air/icaoairlinecode.yaml>