Timeline for My name has "Mr" appended on airline ticket reservation. Would that cause problems at the airport?
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| May 1, 2016 at 16:01 | comment | added | CompuChip | @TeemuLeisti actually as a programmer I follow the teachings of databases using numeric identifiers without actual meaning. And three-letter codes don't fit that well with the current number of airports, which is why we have four-letter ICAO codes now. I agree with the sentiment of your comment though. | |
| Feb 19, 2015 at 10:37 | comment | added | Teemu Leisti | @O. R. Mapper: Also, the databases that store all the information related to flights will need to have unique identifiers, preferably short, for concepts such as airports. The three-letter codes fit the purpose well. | |
| Jun 26, 2014 at 10:43 | comment | added | CompuChip | Yeah, even though my reservation system comes with a nice graphical front end now, I still prefer the text mode because I find the information easier to read and the cryptic text entries to be faster and more powerful than clicking around in text fields. So even though they were introduced for legacy reasons, there must be reasons that we still keep them - if everyone hated them, we would have gotten rid of them years ago! | |
| Jun 25, 2014 at 21:58 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | Your text makes it sound like certain identifiers - the flight numbers and the IATA airport codes - are just there for legacy reasons and serve no useful purpose any more today. I tend to differ on that; while network bandwidth in the computer systems may not be an issue any more, short codes are still very useful as they uniquely identify flights/airports and can be very quickly read, written (by hand) and memorized by humans, as opposed to possibly ambiguous designations like the name of a city (which, in some cases, needs the name of the country and/or more info to be unambiguous). | |
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| Jun 25, 2014 at 21:39 | history | answered | CompuChip | CC BY-SA 3.0 |