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Can FR24 please give my local airport it's correct name

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    Can FR24 please give my local airport it's correct name

    I live under the flight path into runway 09 of East Midlands Airport.
    The airport opened in 1965 as East Midlands Airport (EMA). However, FR24 uses a controversial name it was changed to in 2004. This change was abandoned in 2006 and the name reverted back to East Midlands Airport, which it remains today. However FR24 hasn't caught up with the change.

    The airport serves three cities in the East Midlands region of the UK, Derby, Leicester and Nottingham.
    The nearest city is Derby, although the airport is in the county of Leicester. So some bright spark decided to add the least logical name to it... Nottingham. It then became known as "Nottingham-East Midlands Airport".

    The argument was that foreigners didn't know where "East Midlands" was, so we should add a city name to reduce misunderstanding.

    I remember shortly after the change waiting for my flight at an airport in Europe and some of the departure boards showed "Nottingham" whilst some showed "East Midlands"!
    So no confusion there then!

    After two years the airport management had seen the error of their ways and renamed it back to it's original EMA.
    But 19 years later, FR24 is still using the ephemeral name of the past. Any chance of correcting it?

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    FR24 is 100% up to date as FR24 is using the same official IATA naming pattern for ALL AIRPORTS.
    By using the same rules for all airports we keep it simple, stay away from politics and give users unified information.
    CITY NAME + AIRPORT NAME
    Which gives
    London + Heathrow
    Stockholm + Arlanda
    New York + Newark
    Johannesburg + OR Tambo
    Nottingham + East Midlands
    Official directory of IATA codes used by airlines and airports, including IATA 3-letter and 2-letter codes.
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      #3
      Mike - Thanks very much for the interesting reply. I hadn't thought of it that way. Where it only serves one city it's an easy decision, but where there are three cities, which do you chose without offending the other two?

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