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IATA Airport Code

Type Registry

IATA Airport Code

geography.transportation.iata_code

International Air Transport Association airport code (3 letters). Identifies airports for flight bookings and schedules (e.g., JFK, LAX, CDG).

Domain geography›transportation
Casts to VARCHAR
Scope Universal

Try it

CLI 
$ finetype infer -i "JFK"
→ geography.transportation.iata_code

DuckDB

Detect 
SELECT finetype('JFK');
-- → 'geography.transportation.iata_code'
Cast expression 
UPPER(CAST({col} AS VARCHAR))
Safe cast pipeline 
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS VARCHAR) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'geography.transportation.iata_code';

JSON Schema

finetype schema geography.transportation.iata_code 
{
  "$id": "https://noon.sh/schemas/geography.transportation.iata_code",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "International Air Transport Association airport code (3 letters). Identifies airports for flight bookings and schedules (e.g., JFK, LAX, CDG).",
  "examples": [
    "JFK",
    "LAX",
    "CDG",
    "LHR",
    "NRT"
  ],
  "pattern": "^[A-Z]{3}$",
  "title": "IATA Airport Code",
  "type": "string"
}

Examples

JFKLAXCDGLHRNRT

Types in geography