I Will Only Call These Airports By Their Original Names

[Parche]

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NATIONAL AIRPORT................NOT Ronald Reagan




HOUSTON INTERCONTINENTAL.........NOT George Bush



:grr: :grr: :grr:

:hi:

[Taverner]

1. What about John Wayne?

Was it called anything else?

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[MrCoffee]

5. WTF???

:rofl:

[Taverner]

8. It's one of the funnier quotes from Repo Man

You haven't seen it? Go...rent....it...now!

[MrCoffee]

15. I *eventually* got it

It was just so out of context that it took me by surprise. Sheesh, cut a guy some slack, i'm praying for people in GD-Partytime.

It's hard werk!

[Taverner]

7. HAHAHAHAHA REPO MAN

Love that movie!

[pink-o]

12. Orange County or Santa Ana

I work at San Francisco International, and whenever I have a boarding pass that shows "Washington/Reagan" I cross off the second part and write "National".

I've not had a single complaint!

:evilgrin:

[madinmaryland]

2. I don't have a problem with Baltimore's airport..

Baltimore/Washington Thurgood Marshall International.

:hi:

[CC]

20. I don't have a problem with it now but

really liked when it was called Friendship Airport.

[MrCoffee]

3. The hell with that...I refuse to fly into NATIONAL anymore

If I can't fly into Dulles or BWI, I fly somewhere else and rent a fucking car.


What kind of sick fucking shit is that to name a goddamn airport after that fucking fuckwad?

[lizerdbits]

6. Did building it result in several trillion of debt?

:shrug:

[MrCoffee]

17. He fired the ATCs!!!!

Fired the whole lot of them. Then they have the audacity to kick the ATCs in the groin by naming the fucking airport after him.

[HughBeaumont]

10. DC also named the International Trade building after him.

Fitting . . . seeing as how he only thought of foreigners as cheap labor and nothing more.

Even though it would be convenient for me to fly into National, I don't. BWI instead when I visit the sister and nephew.

[lost-in-nj]

9. how about my airport

Newark International is now

Newark Liberty airport

after 911

lost

[Parche]

16. it should be Newark Gorn Airport

i am so tired of all the 'freedom' or 'patriot' crap
patriot act
freedom fries
freedom toast
protect america act
homeland security

:grr: :grr: :grr:


:hi:

found airport

[trof]

11. I'm witcha. Idlewild.

;-)

[Kat45]

32. Car 54, where are you?

:rofl:

[seemunkee]

13. Nobody I know around here calls it Reagan

Its National and always will be National.

[querelle]

14. In Montreal.........

The big international airport used to be called Dorval. It was renamed Pierre Elliot Trudeau international airport after one of our late prime ministers. The airport code is now PET. Pet is the french word for fart. Needless to say, I still call it Dorval airport.

Q

[meegbear]

37. I love that airport ...

you fly in and it looks like a bunch of non-descript brick buildings. Then you go in and ... :wow:.

[Flaxbee]

18. thank you! No Reagan, no Bush -

I used to fly in and out of National frequently - never ever would refer to it as Reagan. Bah!


Hiya, Parche! :hi:

[TZ]

19. What really pissed me off about the renaming of National Airport..

Was that the repukes in Congress threatened to withold money from Metro (DC's subway) until they spent the money to change the name on ALL their signs. Yeah. Struggling but critical Public Transport and the fuckers make Metro pay for that shit....:grr: :grr: :grr:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. It's always Washington National to me...

It was already named for a president...and a damned good one. Changing it to Reagan was an insult to the founding fathers.

[FlyingSquirrel]

22. Here's hoping someday the Repugs'll have to call Carter Airport

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International.

That'll twist their tongues.

:P

In fact I think we oughtta get on that renaming process pronto!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

23. Us natives call it Houston Intergalactic.

Don't forget Idylwild. That'll drive the cabbies in New York crazy.

[musette_sf]

25. so it's been upgraded

from Houston Interplanetary, which is what it was called when i lived there.

Idlewild was renamed so long ago, i'm sort of okay with it being JFK.

but as much as i love Louis Armstrong, it's still Moisant to me.

[Initech]

24. I use the airport codes - IAH and DCA.

I had a layover at IAH last year and there was a bronze statue of Satan himself. I wanted to take a hacksaw to it and lop the head off the same way Bart Simpson did.

[Dangerously Amused]

31. But it's considerate of them,

...providing a place like that to deposit the gum you needed to pop your ears while flying.


I would have a lot of fun with that statute, let me tell you.


:7

[Rabrrrrrr]

26. So, then, you're not going to call anything else by their original names?

:rofl:

[ashling]

27. Flying in to Houston from Seattle

I had the the Sr. Flight Attendant ask the pilot to only refoer to Houston Intercontinental. She said it bothers her too. LOL

[newmajority]

34. When Scoop Jackson died, they tried to rename Sea-Tac airport after him

The idea was overwhelmingly rejected by the public and they had to change it back.

And this was years before we knew what had become of Scoop's former staffers (two of them were named Perle and Wolfowitz)

[cloudbase]

28. Nobody in Houston calls it Bush.

Just as though nobody except the announcers say things like FedEx Orange Bowl.

[crim son]

29. There's a George Bush Freaking Intercontinental Airport?

I'm flabbergasted. I can imagine naming the turd of a newly discovered rodent after our illustrious leader, but this?

Fortunately, I have no occasion to travel through Houston. :puke:

[SPKrazy]

30. it's named after daddy

but just as bad (all three)

:hi:

[RoyGBiv]

33. It's horrifying ...

The worst part, for me personally since I never actually go to that airport, is all the freakin' signs everywhere. Way down on the south side of Houston I see signs that point me to George Bush.

Not the way I want to wake up in the morning. Makes the wait in the traffic just that much more nauseating.

[kwassa]

35. National it still is, not Reagan National

Bob Barr's shameful legacy.

National is easy to get in and out of, too. Our favorite local airport.

[Tyler Durden]

36. We used to say:

"I like National, it's my favorite runway."

Referring to the fact that those runways don't go off axis very far, and a little crosswind at slow landing speed is NOT my idea of fun.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

38. National Airport

I too never use the RR moniker for it. Of course, prior to its renovations, National was always a miserable airport anyways, so if any airport deserves the RR name, that would be it. After renovations, it looks great, but was rendered impractical after Sept. 11th and security issues. Oh well. I always fly BWI anyways when I go to Maryland so that's neither here nor there.

[Jokerman]

39. Indianapolis International should be "Weir-Cook"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_International_Airport#History

[montanto]

40. LAX is now Freedom Fries International.

[datasuspect]

41. i still call o'hare

orchard field

[Burma Jones]

42. I subscribe to XM and there's a traffic and weather channel for the DC area

The midday announcer, I forget her name, refuses to say Reagan National Airport. For awhile, she called it Washington National Airport and lately all I've heard her say is National Airport or she just wouldn't mention it during the weather.

We still call it National, just as we still call the Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport BWI.

Although, it might be fun to call it Marshall Field......

And I haven't been to Houston since 1991 and hopefully will never see that pit again.

[abq e streeter]

43. Sort of a tangent here, but Enron field is the only name I'll ever call

the Astros ballpark in Houston