✈️ The Maddening Mess of Airport Codes! ✈️

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@amateraceon5202 Год назад

I know Grey has said he picks his videos well in advance and spends a lot of time researching, but part of me likes to think he just had a REALLY bad airport experience that led to the boarding video, the runway video, AND this video all at once

@semineestefanescu7460 Год назад

Yes

@lucasok1185 Год назад

dullus

@MartyFox Год назад

And the DON’T DIE video, I’d imagine

@benjaminjohnson6476 Год назад

Thats what i want to believe about it

@muhilan8540 Год назад

Dulles

@atakoranodonbrachiosaurus1209 Год назад

"but that's a story for another time" is essentially a death sentence to an interesting topic at this point

@Miss_Trillium Год назад

As someone still wanting a follow up to Part 0 of reservations, I can confirm

@kingeragon2100 Год назад

How to politely “nope” out of a rabbit whole.”

@NOT_A_ROBOT Год назад

@@kingeragon2100 hole*

@reubenm.d.5218 Год назад

Reservations. Forever in our hearts.

@SquintyGears Год назад

to be fair he already spent 8 months to make sure CY had a logical origin...

@Fabben1 Год назад

Finnair had a long standing gag of operating flight 666 to HEL (Helsinki) and even taking off on Friday the 13ths.

@Halio70 Год назад

I feel like with every CGP video we get, we see him descend further into madness. I blame Tiffany.

@mariapaulagl Год назад

We ALL blame Tiffany

@bryanekers3472 Год назад

Tiffany is totes to blame.

@Nadia1989 Год назад

Damn you Hearne!

@averytheaxolotl5689 Год назад

No, we dont blame Tiffany, we blame Hearne

@1224chrisng Год назад

He's a Fan of Theophania

@GermaphobeMusic Год назад

I feel like CGP Grey is on the brink of starting his own airport

@879PC Год назад

Too bad CGP is already taken

@20quid Год назад

@@879PC I wonder if Grey has ever been to Chittagong.

@alexanderharrison7421 Год назад

I think he's about to start his own Standards Organization for Literally Everything

@summsauce9784 Год назад

would be the best airport

@dragonbretheren Год назад

What is this? An airport for bees?

@worstedwoolens Год назад

I love how stick figure Grey has evolved from a classroom teacher into a complete menace to polite society.

@twistedtachyon5877 Год назад

I think StickGP Grey prefers "retiree".

@3rix Год назад

¿Por qué no los dos?

@SaltpeterTaffy Год назад

One thing remains the same: a captive audience.

@rambysophistry1220 Год назад

You say that like polite society somehow deserves to not be menaced after such egregious nonsense on its behalf.

@weimaranerstudio7974 Год назад

You’re one of my favorite RU-vidrs

@bryanekers3472 Год назад

As a life-long Montrealer, I'm pleased that Grey took the time to put a number of recognizable Montreal landmarks in the IATA office windows.

@praneeshpal8677 Год назад

Not a resident of Pyongyang, but same can be said for the landmarks and airport details shown in the FNJ part.

@Coveredincatfur Год назад

@bryanekers3472 I noticed the same thing!

@givelbs Год назад

this has probably been said before in a more elegant fashion, but Grey's sentence structure is just amazing. Almost every sentence is alliterative and rhyming... it all flows beautifully.

@shadowpaw7722 Год назад

Reminds me of Dr. Seuss' books.

@WouldntULikeToKnow. Год назад

Pure poetry

@unfinkintsugi 10 месяцев назад

I fall asleep to him talking since it's flow is so beautiful.

@QueenMonny 2 месяца назад

@@WouldntULikeToKnow.I wouldn't call it poetry. His speech is very eloquent. But poetry (to me) is gibberish. Grey, however, is perfectly transparent. It's probably what made/makes him such a great teacher and why his videos are so popular. He conveys information in a way that is engaging and easily understood.

@arpitjain2591 Год назад

Grey and airports, a never ending battle

@ferrum1776 Год назад

An airport named Tiffany

@electrikpikachujm69 Год назад

I know 😏

@chanr9531 Год назад

A never ending battle for a lot of us too 😂

@54321jcc Год назад

@@ferrum1776 Apparently the Ta’if Regional Airport of Ta’if, Saudi Arabia goes by TIF.

@zachychu9675 Год назад

It’s no longer a battle, at this point it’s a war

@notawesomebread Год назад

I need a 2 hour CGP video where all of the side notes and exceptions are thoroughly explained

@notsaying7838 Год назад

@@skorp5677 Wait, really? Damn.

@ShroudedWolf51 Год назад

@@notsaying7838 Yep. The behind the scenes commentaries are pretty dang neat.

@robertaylor9218 Год назад

Won’t be enough time

@RTomassi Год назад

I need a 3 hour CGP video explaining the side notes and exceptions from your 2 hour video :)

@zakr1187 Год назад

@@skorp5677 where are the yt ones?

@malignantcrow16 Год назад

“All are coded so companies can communicate clearly and concisely complicated connections to carry their customers, and their bags.” -CGP Grey, 2022

@oculicious Год назад

my dream is to be trapped next to cgp on a plane as he rambles obsessively about whatever rabbithole he has dug himself into at the time.

@zanwrightmfwr756 Год назад

Yo same. 2 hour flight becomes 15 minute flight

@QueenMonny 2 месяца назад

Needs to be a longer amount of time. An oceanic voyage on a ship with sails. Thank you. That way he can really delve and you (me) can really learn.

@kalamari3288 Год назад

I love the idea of Grey just diverting flights and lecturing to random people on planes.

@theburningtoastmonsterofur7028 Год назад

@ianmcgregor576 Год назад

@@hazelon1283 it all depends on how you go about it. A cool fact or two and I’m interested, but 10 minutes of talking and I’m thinking I want to respond to a text but don’t want to seem rude

@TheGoukaruma Год назад

Real GCPG Grey avoids to talk to strangers when possible. He is no smalltalk guy.

@FelixAmark Год назад

i also like to belive its the same person in everyone of these videos that grey always happens to stumble upon

@RonsarLo Год назад

If it wasn't for interacting with people, he'd totally do it too

@blainewheaton9679 Год назад

I always love the little hints of madness that leak through whenever CGP tell us about something that really *should be* simple, but isn’t

@HistoryNerd808 Год назад

I think agencies slowly losing their minds is appropriate as well. The fact that he made ICAO and IATA really tired, confused, and overwhelmed bureaucrats is just so perfect.

@RepOfAntarctica Год назад

Exactly, like when he asks the FCC why they overlapped the K & W radio stations in the middle of the US, & for that brief second an old lady with the skirt "ITU" appears, alluding that they had something to do with it, but he didn't have time to tell us at the moment, either foreshadowing a later topic in the video or another one altogether.

@firewoodloki Год назад

W for East W for Without Weather

@FurryWrecker911 Год назад

The more I learn about history, the less confidence I have in letting people run things. The best eye openers are the stories police, firefighters, and paramedics have to tell. There are people out there who think fire extinguishers work via pulling the pin and throwing it. I have worked with system engineers for military trainers that can't even find the headlight controls or the hood release in their own car. These are the people that build and decide how our infrastructure works. Failing upward is real, and the more people you meet in life and the more perspectives you see from them will make you realize how it's a miracle we made it as far as we have.

@rubenstoltz-skea4726 Год назад

@@FurryWrecker911 are you serious about the fire extinguisher thing because if so we are doomed (SarcasmButAtTheSameTimeNotReally)

@loupgarou95 Год назад

My favorite airport code is MCO, the code for the Orlando, FL International Airport. Legend says it stands for Mickey's Corporate Office. It doesn't, but the idea is quite fun.

@necroslair Год назад

The airport formerly known as McCOy Field…

@lauramitchell1924 Год назад

As a new Ham Radio operator, I can tell you that Morse Code is alive and well.

@gregorystoike Год назад

Welcome to the hobby!

@rickwemd6618 Год назад

I really love the fact that Grey continues to accidentally roast Social-Security Number in both airport-themed videos

@FlyingBunnycorn Год назад

Yes, "accidentally"...

@EEEEEEEE Год назад

E‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

@NoriMori1992 Год назад

"Accidentally"?

@Thot-Slayer-420 Год назад

there are no accidents

@sabikikasuko6636 Год назад

Gotta love CGP Grey's unwaivering commitment. You have that content creators open a video epicly with "This video, spent 3 months in the making" and everyone is like "thank you for your hard work!!!" and then you have Grey just casually throwing in, without warning or a care in the world, "this single fact that's a 30th of the video took 8 months to nail down" and everyone's like "damn, cool".

@richardpike8748 Год назад

... *Tiffany*

@Kas_Styles-Akuma Год назад

This

@seanjones7854 Год назад

Toronto International Airport's IATA code gave birth to the song YYZ by Rush. The main riff is YYZ in Morse code. Also one of the most dangerous airports in the world, Toncontin International in Honduras, has the rather appropriate IATA code TNT

@holgerj.440 Год назад

When the focus came to the Y and instantly the random xylophone started playing "Oh Canada..." it made me smile and am unable to stop, yet. The details of these videos are gold!

@ozboz1995 Год назад

When Grey revealed he had been trying to find out Y for 8 months, just had me crying. The never ending rabbit hole trying to find order in madness is the epitome of this channel.

@LouisOnAir Год назад

And yet we still don't know why some of them start with W instead

@shade8962 Год назад

@@LouisOnAir he explained it. something to do with weather control being present I believe. Y if the tower is there, and W if it's not. something like that

@perpetrin Год назад

I'm waiting now for the 45 minutes long video explaining Y, just like for the Tiffany problem. I'm sure we will be for a ride !

@Peacewind152 Год назад

Hilarious thing is, in ground school I was told about the Y vs W story. I really hope Grey releases a footnote video about it because I want to know!

@MravacKid Год назад

His own fault really, he can't leave well enough alone and *needs* to go dig deeper. :)

@ckelley8275 Год назад

I just love the facial expressions of the poor passengers who become unwitting participants on Grey's exploits during these educational traveling videos. They're always like, "Why me?!" and "Somebody, help me!" 😂

@sploog Год назад

I like to think it's the same guy every time that has to put up with grey indoctrinating them in a cult, venting about some poem that wasn't about tiffany, tried bringing onto a pirate crew, and on and on...

@tails183 Год назад

I feel the same way about comments with emojis.

@RainbowFlowerCrow Год назад

@@tails183 🙄😒

@nulnoh219 Год назад

It's like the magic school bus teacher, but kidnapping unwitting learners.

@EEEEEEEE Год назад

E‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

@zmathpanda Год назад

I remember I had a problem with this. I accidentally put BHM (Birmingham, US) and not BHX (Birmingham, UK), and I booked a hotel ticket. Luckily everyone was kind and I was able to get a free flight back, and no extra fees for the hotel.😊

@vmkunnari Год назад

There used to be Finnair flight AY666 from Copenhagen to Helsinki HEL until 2017. And yes, Helsinki is taking everything out of their IATA-code HEL.

@octo-pops Год назад

Now I need another CGP Grey deep dive video on the madness he spiralled into while researching Canadian airports

@jtiza Год назад

"Someone dead ruined my life, again... AGAIN" runtime: 1:58:20

@jasonbennett7002 Год назад

True but Tiffany set a high bar for descent into madness.

@aclonymous Год назад

@@jtiza canada ruined my life

@aroryboreallen Год назад

Hit me up in YYC

@edgardobeltran3823 Год назад

It's the Brittany Tiffany madness all over again

@thomaslusignan762 Год назад

As an architecture nerd from Montréal, the fact the IATA and ICAO buildings were both accurately drawn and that y'all acknowledged they're right next to each other just delighted me. Thanks!

@Saucialiste Год назад

*squee in Montrealease* Le squee! Le squee

@froggywam Год назад

I walk by the IATA building quite a bit, I didn't it was its headquarters, also had no idea what the organization did

@bryanekers3472 Год назад

Did you recognize all the landmarks in the windows? There's 1000 de la Gauchetiere, the Olympic Stadium, the BNPS ("Batman") building and at least a dozen others.

@reedcspurling Год назад

Someone's probably already commented this, but the "J" for "Jezero airfield" was specifically added for the 'Ingenuity' Mars Helicopter when it began its flights. It landed with the Perseverance Rover, and the two vehicles are now working together but usually some distance apart.

@demoaccount3409 Год назад

This is the exact comment I was looking for

@toyztoyz2000 Год назад

As a pilot I found this video more informitive than I had ever imagined. The stuff they do not teach in class that should be tought!

@ArmageddonAngel Год назад

I remember my cousin, who is slightly overweight, was traveling with her bags and they had FAT on it. She thought they were mocking her but it turns out that she had stopped in Fresno and their code is Fresno Air Terminal.

@thunderb00m Год назад

Mocked by her own ticket 😔

@linux2647 Год назад

They’ve wanted to change this for years to be FYI (Fresno-Yosemite International (yes international, with only flights to Mexico)) but apparently FAA rules state changes aren’t allowed unless the the airport physically moves. The only time I’m aware of that is when Denver International built a whole new airport and moved everything

@Frank_144 Год назад

slightly overweight in your country is extremely obese everywhere else

@luisenriqueperezperez3193 Год назад

@@linux2647 Oh yes, the For Your Information airport

@ta144 Год назад

@@linux2647 St. George, UT built a whole new airport...but kept the same airport codes.

@crossoverepisode Год назад

Im learning to carbon date CGP grey videos. Now due to the recent airport related videos, you can tell that grey got very interested in airport science about 2 years and 9 months ago.

@webbowser8834 Год назад

IIRC that was roughly when his big trip to America to research Indian Reservations happened (incidentally, that's also when his not well thought out but still productive trip to Tekoi testing facility happened)

@gavinrushing12 Год назад

Absolutely brilliant!

@GoErikTheRed Год назад

@@webbowser8834 which resulted in the two Tekoi videos (plus corrections), as well as a brief* obsession with tumbleweeds which spawned a video, plus a visit to a weed research lab in Colorado. Factor in the road trip vlogs, and that really is the trip that keeps on giving

@DogsRNice Год назад

He must have been exposed to the same thing windover productions was

@duckofdeathv1595 Год назад

He was probably trying to distract himself after seeing someone throw pennies into the engine.

@iprobablyforgotsomething Год назад

I never before thought of the ocean as "that terrifying empty abyss" that I have flown over but courtesy of this vid, have successfully added a new fear to my collection.

@kipchickensout Год назад

we went on some Spanish flight booking site because my parents want to fly there, and were planning the trip back. The site automatically translated to german so instead of getting them to HAM for Hamburg, it translated it literally as SCHINKEN

@canadalavearn Год назад

I would gladly watch a 45+ minute video where Grey explains all the parts that he skips over because it's "too complicated" or "not enough time"

@sexyscientist Год назад

Canada wants to know Y?

@adt4864 Год назад

I think he would make them too if they were only quick and easy to make

@that_one_guy934 Год назад

2 years/ vid instead of 6 months

@emmakane6848 Год назад

I’m pretty sure that he does this for patreon supporters.

@AhmadLad Год назад

Being trapped with CGP Grey on a long flight would be an entertaining yet daunting experience. 😂😂

@heydashcake Год назад

Fight?? Oh no...

@AhmadLad Год назад

@@heydashcake Once the adrenaline started rushing, It was fight or flight... and I was slightly courageous 😂

@zimidiaz1015 Год назад

Grey makes learning fun, i would love to be stuck on a flight with him

@pnutz_2 Год назад

I saw him talking to the guy in the seat and had immediate Flying High flashbacks

@redyau_ Год назад

Not really. He'd just be listening to plane noises on his sound cancelling headphones, praying you leave him alone.

@leojei Год назад

I feel so special being a Canadian from how many times CGP Grey calls out Canada in this video.

@CoryDAnimates Год назад

You know a travel RU-vidr is going to leverage that last part and make a video of going to all those IATA code airfields in real life.

@Fejszi Год назад

As a Hungarian, I would like to tell you Grey, that I feel kind of honored by the fact that you used our language as the example with the suitcase

@theunnamed9031 Год назад

Timestamp: 12:18

@obvious_giraffe8386 Год назад

Szia !!!

@VHenrik007 Год назад

Hello, honfitársaim!

@illesmateorion Год назад

Akkor nem csak én szúrtam ki, oké :D

@DerSenat Год назад

and as a German, i feel honored that he used our language as an example here: 1:50

@vincentzhi9555 Год назад

11:18 "if you dont have a system, you won't have exceptions" this resonated with me on a spiritual level

@XDRosenheim Год назад

No rules? No one to stop you.

@vale.antoni Год назад

7:11 He actually continues calling the Jersey side airport "Ewark" and it very much checks out

@SinHurr Год назад

Going to need an Animaniacs-style song down of every airport code.

@fartherout.1046 Год назад

I love how these scripts almost flow like poetry with the tiny alliteration that feed into one another

@C.I... Год назад

Until he said "mahwngling" like he's an english aristocrat or something.

@Matrixpandagamer Год назад

@@C.I... He is like Dr. Seuss

@matthewkreps3352 Год назад

I'm like 26% sure it's an OCD thing.

@jordanwardan7588 Год назад

I find it really conspicuous and distracting, its like when the cuts in a youtube video essay sync with the background music for me. it takes me out of the immersion and reminds me that this was created by a group of people who all thought they were doing something cool

@JohnnyTromboner Год назад

@@jordanwardan7588 I mean.. did they not?

@nicolasorerosanz8515 Год назад

The care and detail you and your team put in every one of your scripts is frightening

@CGPGrey Год назад

Boo!

@egodeosum Год назад

@@CGPGrey Bodø, Norway

@TheAutisticFrog Год назад

@@CGPGreyhi

@jimijamflimiflam6323 Год назад

@@CGPGrey D:

@NBAviageo Год назад

@@CGPGrey im still mad at you for ewark ew jersey.

@Tony.H03 Год назад

I was so excited about the accuracy of Schiphol down to the actual NS double decker trains! Such detail! And then I noticed the pin is in BELGIUM.

@tommyfrerking 9 месяцев назад

Interesting information: I grew up on a beautiful set of lakes in NW Iowa (Calhoun County) named Twin Lakes and we had a radio station on the lake I lived on (N Twin). Remarkable for how few people lived on the lake. Their call letters were cleverly chosen: KTLB Keep Twin Lakes Beautiful

@ERYN__ Год назад

My mother wanted to fly to see me in San Jose. She booked her flight to SJO not SJC. I had her call me ASAP, and greeted her with "I hope you enjoy your trip to Costa Rica". She doesn't have a passport so I doubt they would let her on the plane, but she called and got her ticket fixed immediately.

@cogspace Год назад

I have also nearly accidentally booked a flight to SJO instead of SJC before, despite the fact that it was a return trip because I lived in San Jose (California) at the time. Yay, IATA codes!

@ERYN__ Год назад

@@cogspace yay Go Sharks I guess... although I lived closer to Levi stadium than the SAP. Peep the missing Android Nugat in pic!

@ashtar3876 Год назад

Why the hell is costa rica SJO

@MandoMonge Год назад

@@ashtar3876 the capital is San Jose

@JoseCastro-nj5bs Год назад

Because its capital is san josé (yes, with accent)

@Macdaddy5539 Год назад

I love how in the videos Grey is always explaining to their trapped neighbor all this minutia in great detail when in reality, I’m sure Grey wants to interact with as few other humans as possible

@merseyviking Год назад

And if any one of us were that trapped neighbour, we'd be like "tell us moar!!!"

@staceynainlab888 Год назад

"sir, this is a Wendy's"

@danese1636 Год назад

I genuinely appreciate the lengths you go to while researching for these videos. While no where near the scale of the research you do, as a University student I understand the rabbit holes you end up in when you ask the terrifying "why" questions.

@dorinstefangheorghe983 Год назад

the DAD,MAD,RUN ones having matching pictures is incredible

@teslaromans1023 Год назад

The barely contained insanity crawling right under the surface in his voice when he talks about the months lost to research never fails to crack me up

@Taiyama2 Год назад

It's got that "looking longingly at a noose" feel to it.

@kylemcewen8474 Год назад

As a CY Canadian who flew through CGP in Bangladesh this week - this video absolutely made my day.

@1rdwn Год назад

Me too, I'm from Bangladesh

@ianm408 Год назад

Why?

@rat_king- Год назад

@@ianm408 he's called cgp grey... figure the rest out

@ianm408 Год назад

@@rat_king- I was asking Kyle the Canadian, why. It was a play on words. Go figure.

@rat_king- Год назад

@@ianm408 Y? would have been better

@nimi-nae Год назад

I worked at an international airport for a while. We had a little airport code guide in a pamphlet we kept in our lanyards but we had to memorize a ton of them in training. I still impress people with the wacky codes I still happen to know. I always wanted to know why they were so weird so thank you!

@gnomed6154 Год назад

Thank you very much for the accurate cameo of our little Yakima Washington (YKM) airport, Grey! That is indeed what our airport roughly looks like! Including the sign. :)

@tetrik6499 Год назад

Can't wait to be serenaded by an overwhelming amount of information

@05council73 Год назад

Same

@TheGirlWithTheHatJackHat_ Год назад

Me tooo!

@aplila Год назад

And to be bombarded by but billions of beautiful, bodacious alliterations 👍🏻

@Stlwartheart14 Год назад

I am still confused, but I think thats in the spirit of the video

@TheGirlWithTheHatJackHat_ Год назад

Yeah...

@Sinth_Node Год назад

This is how I imagine shakespeare’s plays must have been performed when they were written. The complex yet effortless lyricism that weaves beautifully with humor. Always a treat to watch a new CGP video, thank you for sharing your perspective on aviation codes and how the hell we even got into this mess. Cheers!

@Unknown-jt1jo Год назад

Agreed! There's a certain hypnotic cadence to CGP's delivery.

@jamesrosewell9081 Год назад

Ah of course Shakespeare was historically known to be a bit fan of airports

@nomoremeaning Год назад

If I was a teacher, I would use your videos as part of my lesson plans. Real facts, explained simply, mixed with a little comedy, in an easy to follow format. This is only my 3rd video, and I can tell you dedicate your time to these. I loved the Most Deadly Job in America video and the one about Federal Land was quite interesting. I learned so much information in less than an hour. This truly is great content, and you definitely deserve every single Sub you have and more!

@joshuabela5374 Год назад

2:52 the woman at the top-right is so delighted to submit her city's code preference I love these animations

@an2thetonio191 Год назад

I'm from Freiburg, Germany which is served by Basel Airport (BSL/MLH/EAP) and it's genuinely one of the weirdest airports in the world. During covid, whenever I flew home to visit my family, I would have to comply with the entry regulations of 3 different countries (France, Switzerland, and Germany). I also once had to quarantine for two weeks upon returning to Scotland (where I live) despite departing from the Swiss terminal - Switzerland was greenlisted at that time - because the UK aviation authority treats EAP as a French airport only. So despite not setting a foot on French soil, I had to quarantine because France was on the UK's red list. Long story short, it's an effing mess - especially considering Switzerland is not even in the EU. Thanks Grey for giving it a shoutout anyway - I appreciate it :D

@ivarnordlkken8082 Год назад

But, Basel/Mulhouse Airport IS on french soil, isn't it??

@an2thetonio191 Год назад

@@ivarnordlkken8082 sort of, yes. It's in France but half of the building as well the road that connects the airport to Basel is owned by the Swiss government, so it is legally treated as Swiss territory.

@NNONAO Год назад

Yeah Euro Airport is hit or miss in general. If you're late for your flight but lucky you can go from checking in to your gate in less than ten minutes but if there's a lot of people you'll wait in one of the worst international airports ammenities wise. Also coming in border control always takes ages.

@PhilipFry. Год назад

@@NNONAO Happy to fly EDDF only

@einstijn138 Год назад

Switzerland is not in the EU, but it is in Schengen, so there is the same free movement of goods and people in and out of Switzerland

@cowsareawesomex Год назад

As a Montreal resident, I appreciate how accurate the skyline is from the IATA office

@indieflowerutau Год назад

as an atlanta resident, i was appreciating that i could recognize my own airport on sight even with no of the branding on it lmao

@noemiej.marquis732 Год назад

It was the cherry on top. Love it when Grey goes the extra step.

@MrEthanhines Год назад

He's missing the oratory and of course the Mt. Royal cross. But other than that, it's about right.

@lupes99 Год назад

@@indieflowerutau it’s impossible to miss with its 7 concourses. One of my favorite airports to connect through.

@johncam8420 Год назад

As a Canadian who visited Montreal in 2018, I have to say - yea, I was shocked how accurate it was. Happy to see another Canadian notice!

@879PC Год назад

Fun fact: I recently flew solo down to Las Vegas to see a show and the amount of "fun airport facts" I had that I wanted to share with people was unbearable and it's nearly all because of this video. Thank you Mr. Grey.

@Dheinamar Год назад

Kudos for using original flags of the post-USSR republicsat 10:02. I bet you spent a few hours on verifying them intentionally just for 10 people who’ll notice.

@WitherBossEntity Год назад

Fun fact: OpenBSD provides a list of IATA codes in the /usr/share/misc/airport file, but only for those airports where an OpenBSD developer has landed and confirmed that the airport does, in fact, exist. Train stations with IATA codes don't get added unless a developer crashes a plane there and survives.

@emmi2670 Год назад

How many OpenBSD devs go flying, let alone crash at random train stations?

@CaptainApathetic Год назад

OpenBSD: Can make a system a nearly impenetrable fortress with its security Also OpenBSD: Has cool easter eggs Damn they really make Microsoft look like a bitch

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Год назад

It's like land surveying for the modern era.

@LangKuoch Год назад

As a Canadian who had always wondered about our Y's, this video was particularly satisfying to watch!!

@AvsJoe Год назад

But Y?

@RainAngel111 Год назад

Same

@ACoolKidsProduction Год назад

I'd totally watch a CGP Grey video on that deep version of why Canadian codes start with a "Y" that he hinted at.

@jamesdmack Год назад

And, of course, we're sorry.

@AlexVallee Год назад

There's a bunch more interesting stuff looking at UL, IUL both in the vicinity of YUL. Myself, I recently got my license this year at the flight school located at the aerodrome CSE4, with a Transport Canada location code but no IATA or ICAO code.

@bencekiss4693 Год назад

12:19 That’s written in Hungarian!😁 Thank you for including our less known unique and extra hard language in your video!❤️

@mariapaulagl Год назад

They are great that Way!

@TransMedard Год назад

És nem mellesleg a legszebb is 😉

@MarcoAdventures Год назад

I love how CGP Grey referenced his half a decade old Social Security Number video. It really shows his love, passion, and dedication to the entertaining content he makes.

@custosnox Год назад

The early days, US airports only had two letter codes. When they expanded to three, they tacked an x to the end of a lot of the existing codes. This is why you have airports like LAX and PDX.

@shammydammy2610 Год назад

Weirdly, our closest airport has an X in it. It's a newer airport, not in the US. I guess the 'obvious' three letters for it were probably already taken so they took the two middle ones and planted an x on the end.

@jobblejosh9713 Год назад

Also be careful with BHM, for Birmingham. Which is Birmingham Alabama, not Birmingham UK (Which is BHX). Just so you don't start assuming airports with X that could be american are.

@shammydammy2610 Год назад

@@jobblejosh9713 Yeah, the airport I'm referencing is Bajio International (BJX), central Mexico.

@stella-vu8vh Год назад

I always wondered why people referred to portland or shorthand as PDX, but assumed it was simply because other things existed, like LAX, and i guess i was right! Huh. How about that?

@rogerdotlee Год назад

in addition, the x stands for international

@japzone Год назад

Every CGP Grey video feels like I was wandering the desert and found an oasis.

@douglasmorth5661 Год назад

More like you are wandering the desert and found an oasis which turns out not be an oasis because the desert you have been walking through is not a desert. That is becuase of the type of sand the desert that you're in compile of is not exactly defined as a desert-type sand by an agency you never heard of. So it turns out that you are really just at a lake in a dry place.

@brianarbenz1329 Год назад

But that’s a story for another time.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Год назад

Or like I was taking a flight to JFK and found an oasis because Grey diverted the flight to a desert.

@couchpotatoinc Год назад

The last two letters in Canadian codes come from railway/telegraph location codes. TZ was the code for Toronto, so we get YTZ. YZ was used for Malton, which is where Toronto’s big airport is, so YYZ.

@leojei Год назад

So we DO have location code embedded in some of the IATA codes, PHEW!

@vintagesupermarkets5210 Год назад

Yep here's another: OW = Ottawa pre-ICAO for the railway, so airport became YOW.

@calcubite9298 5 месяцев назад

Neil Peart stands alone

@gwalker607 Год назад

I am now putting “fly the funny IATA codes route” on my bucket list

@johannbarnard8175 Год назад

I absolutely love how your soundtrack started to subtly shift to playing “O Canada” when you explained Canada’s Y codes. It fits in so well with the rest of the soundtrack that I almost didn’t notice it until that segment was done :P

@aniruddhakabbya622 Год назад

I noticed O Canada and i was like WAIT he really just put it in seamlessly

@zyriantel9601 Год назад

O Canada, more like Y Canada

@josephf9874 Год назад

I'm so glad i wasn't the only one who noticed that

@aniruddhakabbya622 Год назад

Also i get the rant about Canada's Y carrying no geographic location. But seeing a Y automatically means Canada. So glad that we get a unique one

@amyroseplusone Год назад

Spectacular find 🍁

@lilshortkid100 Год назад

Grey, I'm curious how many times on your travels through the Forest of Infinite Knowledge you have stumbled upon a path, started down it, and decided it's not worth it to discover if that one poem actually is the oldest recorded spelling of Tiffany.

@nsofwawalklog Год назад

you nailed that

@sigmasquadleader Год назад

You're a monster, and I respect that.

@Skyrim_Shuffle Год назад

Take my like, my respect, and rise, brother!

@benlambert5984 Год назад

I like how Grey is just outright adoring of the Netherlands in a lot of his videos.

@valj137 Год назад

Absolutely more than 8 months of work definitely went into this. THANK YOU, GREY. Phenomenally entertaining, as always.

@scottmUTCS Год назад

As a Navy vet, I appreciate how excited Grey gets about the possibility of using N for aircraft carriers.

@neby_nebs Год назад

sorry about the whole Bnashville thing

@LavaCreeperPeople Год назад

@gnarled128 Год назад

I love how Grey put IOU and FAQ next to each other, and those are two of the only images he himself features in. Perhaps QnA with Grey is making a return?

@CGPGrey Год назад

👀

@mayube9292 Год назад

He also featured in OMG immediately after it. IOU FAQ? OMG!

@hrishikeshharitas2456 Год назад

offff! kudos on the observation! altho, knowing grey it might be spring before the QnA actually comes out XD.

@MushroomMan64 Год назад

😳❗❗

@ooooneeee Год назад

What a twist!

@kenna176 Год назад

As an airline brat-turned-airline employee, I absolutely love everything about this.

@wyattdornewass2651 Год назад

I love how he says that all the London airports are ages away from eachother, and then shows the times between them which is less than a casual drive between my hometown and L.A.

@bobafettsrightleg Год назад

I love when Grey depicts countries, organizations, etc with girls and their flag/logo skirts and personalized hats and stuff. So cute !!

@werbizzy Год назад

i wish i was a cute country with a cute flag skirt and my own hat

@TPK_MAKG Год назад

@@werbizzy don't we all

@joe_z Год назад

Can't wait for the secondary video documenting Grey's descent into madness trying to figure out where the heck the Y for Canadian airports comes from.

@basicallylife8387 Год назад

As a Canadian, I knew that some airports had codes beginning with Y (YYZ, YKF) but I didnt know it was *all* of them

@ann_onn Год назад

In the late 1800s, when Canada constructed a transcontinental railway, they communicated between stations in morse code. Each was given a two-letter code, such as QB for Quebec. In the early to mid 19th century, as airports were built, they used the same codes but with a letter to indicate whether it had a weather station - "Y" for Yes. The USA didn't have many airports in places starting with a Y, so Canada stuck to their system. Hence Aéroport de Québec is YQB.

@hotdogvan3399 Год назад

@@ann_onn In this very video he says he researched the Yes Weather Station story, and that it's not the reason for the Y.

@ann_onn Год назад

@@hotdogvan3399 [citation needed]

@pengudosh7979 Год назад

01:31 Love the idea of windmills as a mode of transportation - Imagine the thrill of getting lifted up in the air, and then (by the power of centrifugal force) flung of towards your destination. I imagine that you’ll land on a giant trampoline. Amazing video, it was really cool!

@ibtehaj-khan Год назад

07:18 "An airport so nice, they coded it thrice" really got me

@1983horizons1 Год назад

11:26 I love when you can hear the laughter in CGP's voice. That's how you know something is truly absurd.

@VanadiumBromide Год назад

Big Tim Curry SPACE energy.

@yichenyin7138 Год назад

Maybe you mean 8:40 ?

@ratherryan Год назад

I actually laughed out loud at that bit.

@danielbelchamber3894 Год назад

Grey, I just have to say thank you for diving into the monstrosities of reality and bringing back a story for our entertainment and education. You genuinely make me feel less alone by proving that there are others who fight valiantly to make sense of this insane world. Thank you!

@EEEEEEEE Год назад

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@bradoleary88 Год назад

Well said!

@estebancespedes3515 Год назад

I'm Colombian and I didn't know there was a place called Orocué much less that it has an airport (2:40). I checked and it's a tiny 8.000 people town in the middle of nowhere in the oriental plains, wild that it has an IATA code.

@noterix1164 Год назад

this was incredible to watch and I loved all the wordplay ! I have no idea how this ended up in my recommended but I sure am glad it did

@jcoogs7149 Год назад

Can’t wait to see how this video branches off into the linguistics of acronyms and the evolution of early humans

@SandeepKaur-rw2fj Год назад

You were close

@globalincident694 Год назад

He went back as far as the printing press at least

@Geeksmithing Год назад

Most aren't acronyms though. ;)

@qKitti Год назад

CGP Grey has to be in my top 3 favourite RU-vidrs of all time. Thee amount of research put into such trivial topics is so admirable. I loved the subtle Canadian anthem remix of the background music, and all the references to earlier parts of the video. Tiny details like this are why CGP Grey is, in my opinion, the best educational channel on RU-vid. Amazing video :)

@sebastianjost Год назад

What er the other channels that come close to this quality? Anything comparable seems worth mentioning as a potential recommendation.

@JohnSmith-rr3pq Год назад

@@sebastianjost tapakapa

@anthonybowman3423 Год назад

@@sebastianjost I guess it depends on what kind of thing you're looking for. My favorite educational channel is Crash Course personally, just for the sheer amount of actual information and teaching they do. It might not be quite as entertaining, but it helps the world a hell of a lot more.

@Nebulous999 Год назад

@@sebastianjost Kurzgezagt is probably the closest in quality I can think of. Different style, but still great. I don't think anyone can compare to CGP Grey, though.

@pinkysweets Год назад

@@Nebulous999 if you're talking about the time and effort put toward a video by a single person, captain disillusion is the king of youtube. Kurzgezagt, while entertaining, has became some sort of high quality content farm and contains very little useful infomation

@GoldenFlyer Год назад

I love how Grey uses route examples that would be financially unsustainable

@AlexCornellier Год назад

I love that you can see the Montreal skyline behind the IATA, at 3:00 for example. Nice attention to detail :)

@polsar749 Год назад

I love every time Grey says some variation of "No really, we don't have time." in his videos, because each time I know that he *did* take that time while researching and making the script for the video. Each of those statements roughly translate to "Explaining this would double this video's length, or more."

@thegardenofeatin5965 Год назад

You can feel "Someone dead ruined my life for a third time" in places.

@grant5227 Год назад

I'd be up for a 12 hour video like this.

@baxtermcloughlin2287 Год назад

The fact that Grey can talk about a subject that I wouldn't have ever thought to learn and I am actually fully invested in. Which then later will become a hyper fixation

@colossaldonut5190 Год назад

I spent my entire time at the airport 2 months ago trying to find out what the run number was, but never did.

@duffmanis1337 Год назад

Will definitely have the fastest boarding times of all airports though!

@mustafaemrebasaran7701 Год назад

It's truly wonderful how much research Grey puts into these videos. Masterfully done as always.

@YadraVoat Год назад

3:10 - I love how he dodged having to pronounce Yakima / Yakama. 🤣

@chriswatts5921 Год назад

Regarding "not starting with the letter Q" there are several 3 letter morse Q-codes that are regularly used in aviation to describe certain numbers. QNH is current pressure at mean sea level and QFE is current pressure at field elevation for example. As these are used by ATC all the time it's handy to not mistake them with airport codes.

@iamtheAtomicPenguin Год назад

ATC and pilots use 4-letter ICAO location indicators (as they are called), not the IATA codes. Furthermore, QNH is said over the radio by spelling each letter as in the alphabet, whereas EDDB (Berlin) is spelled out using the ICAO phonetic alphabet as Echo Delta Delta Bravo. No way to mix those two things up.

@ShinmaWa1 Год назад

My favorite little airport code quirk is ORD - Chicago O'Hare. Originally named "ORcharD Airfield", it was out in the middle of nowhere next to a small farming community. Even though it hasn't been Orchard Airfield for *80 years*, it is STILL coded as ORD.

@RAFMnBgaming Год назад

Well that explains a lot. I figured it had something to do with the O'Hare bit.

@Solarbonite Год назад

MCO McCoy Airfield. Otherwise known as Orlando International Airport 😂

@Alexandretta Год назад

Spokane International Airport is GEG, for Geiger Field, which it hasn't officially been called since, like, 1960.

@MarkusG85 Год назад

@@Solarbonite and some airlines use OIA on their websites instead of MCO which really confused me to figure out what airport in/around Orlando OIA is.

@sayantanguha707 Год назад

I was once looking for flights from Washington D.C to San Francisco, and found one with a layover at ORD. "Why on earth is this going via Orlando??" I thought, and decided to book a non-stop, way more expensive, flight instead.

@DougCuthbertson Год назад

I salute you! The amount of research and work to put this little video together is unfathomable to my wee brain. Thank you. It was most entertaining and quite dizzying.

@PopeBarley Год назад

The 'blink and you'll miss it' "mongling pronaunciation" joke was amazing

@K9R Год назад

I'd just like to say that I really appreciate the scene starting at 1:25 being an actual representation of the Dutch terminal of Schiphol Airport. It actually has three levels, an underground trainstation and this is what a Dutch train actually looks like when you take a train to the city center of Amsterdam. Well done!

@XEinstein Год назад

Well technically this type of train does not only depart to Amsterdam. These types of trains have many other destinations from Schiphol as well.

@MustafaAlmosawi Год назад

Also the intermodal goodness at Schiphol one of the best airport experiences in the world!

@PatricioHondagneuRoig Год назад

Been there this year, it's a logistical beauty of an airport (except for the 4hr long security line)

@K9R Год назад

@@XEinstein Yes, this type of train operates throughout the entire country of the Netherlands.

@Jothamvvw Год назад

And of course Schiphol doesn't have the code Ams for its train station, as Ams doesn't exist. Schiphol is Shl.

@mgtmusic2926 Год назад

I live close by the Basel Mulhouse airport and used it plenty of times and now that I think about it, it’s such a surreal experience. There’s a strict border Line and as soon as you cross it every Staff member starts to speak French. They have double Government Buildings for Border Fees and what not. But it’s so normalized for me that I don’t even notice it.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Год назад

I like the idea that someone starts speaking to you in French and you're like, "Uh, sprechen sie Deutsch?" and they have to step over a line to talk to you.

@lucash8234 Год назад

It's like "The City and the City" by China Miéville.

@adrianthoroughgood1191 Год назад

@@lucash8234 I came here to say this!

@PlayerLPs Год назад

I'm from Freiburg and I'm so happy that the Euroairport was mentioned 😃 It's a common thing for Germans to travel by bus to the airport over the French border going in to the Switzerland part of the airport to fly somewhere else.