What airport is BOM?
Why the code is BOM
BOMbay, the city's name until 1995.
The airport authority or a contemporaneous record states this directly.
The airport
- IATA code
- BOM
- ICAO code
- VABB
- Airport
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport
- City
- Mumbai, India
- Code origin
- Documented
The city became Mumbai in 1995 and the code did not follow, for the same reason PEK is still Peking: an IATA code change ripples through every reservation system in the world. Mumbai's single main runway crosses its secondary one, so only one can be used at a time, which is why it is among the busiest single-runway operations anywhere.
The other code, VABB
Every airport has two codes. The three-letter IATA code, BOM, is the one on your boarding pass and your luggage tag, and it is assigned for commercial use. The four-letter ICAO code, VABB, is the one pilots and controllers use, and it is assigned geographically: the first letter or two identify the region, so every airport in the same part of the world shares a prefix. That is why VABB looks nothing like BOM.
Common questions
- What airport is BOM?
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, in Mumbai, India.
- Why is Mumbai's airport called BOM?
- BOMbay, the city's name until 1995.
- What is the difference between BOM and VABB?
- BOM is the IATA code, used commercially — tickets, timetables, luggage tags. VABB is the ICAO code, used operationally by pilots and air traffic control, and assigned geographically by region.
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Sources
- OurAirports — OurAirports (Public domain)