Airport Name Changes

Work will commence from Monday 15th July to create a common name for airports across all Cirium products, as well as consistency in all station variances such as helipads, airfields, air bases etc.

Here at Cirium we strive to ensure we provide customers with the most up to date and accurate data, part of that involves both minor changes that can happen daily and larger tranches. 

As part of this we have updated the airport naming to make this consistent across Cirium products, to stay as accurate as possible and to stay aligned with the market. However, there may be an impact on saved searches and Excel functions used on exported data.

If you have any questions on this, please contact your support team.

The consistency that will be applied to station variances can be seen below, with all stations following the ‘STYLE’ column going forward.

Name/Type/ExampleVariationVariationSTYLE
Sea Plane BaseSeaplane BaseSPBSeaplane Base
Marham RAF BaseRAF MarhamMarham Royal Air Force BaseRAF Marham
Condron Army Air FieldCondron Army AirfieldCondron AAFCondron AAF
HeliportHeli PortHeli-PortHeliport
Rail StationRailway StationRailway StnRailway Station
Heli padHeli-padHelipadHelipad
Naming conventions for stations that will be applied across all Cirium products.

A summary of what will change moving from current Fleets Analyzer names and the new common names;

  • Airports get the city name added where it’s commonly used or it makes sense to include it to help clarify where the airport is.
  • International replaces abbreviated Intl
  • Schedules data currently has a 52 character limit for stations, so there are a few that have had to be shortened to fit.
  • Airport is added to all names
  • Army/Navy/Air Force/Marine bases will have appropriate abbreviations.
  • “Saint” spelled out unless it is never spelled out for that particular name/city.

Below are some examples of how the changes will look.

Current Fleets Analyzer NameNew Common Name
Athens International Elefrherios Venizelos AirportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport
Bar Harbor AirportHancock County-Bar Harbor Airport
Kempegowda International Airport BengaluruBengaluru Kempegowda International Airport
Scott Air Force BaseMidAmerica Saint Louis Airport
Chhatrapati Shivaji International AirportMumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
Logan International AirportBoston Logan International Airport
Baltimore/Washington International AirportBaltimore/Washington Intl Thurgood Marshall Airport
Soekarno – Hatta International AirportJakarta Soekarno-Hatta International Airport
Chongqing Jiangbei International AirportChongqing Jianbei International Airport
Dallas/Fort Worth International AirportDallas Fort Worth International Airport
Don Mueang International AirportBangkok Don Mueang International Airport
West Bend AirportWest Bend Municipal Airport
Fort Huachuca/Sierra Vista Municipal AirportSierra Vista Municipal Airport
Central Nebraska RegionalCentral Nebraska Regional Airport
Sao Paulo Guarulhos International AirportSao Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport
Wheeler Army AirfieldWheeler AAF
Houston William P. Hobby AirportHouston Hobby Airport
King Abdulaziz International AirportJeddah King Abdulaziz International Airport
Karnten AirportKlagenfurt Airport
Lisbon AirportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport
Madrid-Barajas Adolfo Suarez AirportAdolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport
Mexico City International AirportMexico City Benito Juarez International Airport
Mckellar AirportMcKellar-Sipes Regional Airport
Munich AirportMunich Franz Joseph Strauss Airport
Ndola AirportNdola Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport
Palmas – Brigadeiro Lysias RodriguesPalmas-Brigadeiro Lysias Rodrigues Intl Airport
Walterboro Municipal AirportLowcountry Regional Airport
Seattle Tacoma International AirportSeattle-Tacoma International Airport
Travis Air Force BaseTravis AFB
TokushimaTokushima Awaodori Airport
Bagotville AirportSaguenay-Bagotville Airport
SPBGanges Seaplane Base
Montreal Trudeau International AirportMontreal-Trudeau International Airport
Table showing examples of changes made to airport’s current FA names to create a common name.

We hope these changes will provide you with a smoother experience across our suite of products.

Thank you for your cooperation.