What airport is BOS?
Why the code is BOS
The first three letters of Boston.
The airport authority or a contemporaneous record states this directly.
The airport
- IATA code
- BOS
- ICAO code
- KBOS
- Airport
- Boston Logan International Airport
- City
- Boston, United States
- Opened
- 1923
- Code origin
- Documented
Logan is three miles from downtown Boston, close enough that a water taxi is a normal way to reach it. The airport is named for Edward Lawrence Logan, a Spanish-American War general who never flew and had no connection to aviation at all; the legislature named it for him a year after his death.
The other code, KBOS
Every airport has two codes. The three-letter IATA code, BOS, is the one on your boarding pass and your luggage tag, and it is assigned for commercial use. The four-letter ICAO code, KBOS, 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 KBOS looks nothing like BOS.
Common questions
- What airport is BOS?
- Boston Logan International Airport, in Boston, United States.
- Why is Boston's airport called BOS?
- The first three letters of Boston.
- What is the difference between BOS and KBOS?
- BOS is the IATA code, used commercially — tickets, timetables, luggage tags. KBOS 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)