Calcutta - Kolkata??

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Hi folks,

MS is inconsistent as heck in it's airport naming convention - they
use the Americanized names for German cities like Munich and Cologne.
Yet, if if you are trying to fly to Calcutta, you won't find it since
it's listed under Kolkata.

Is that the Indian name or has another city changed it's name while I
slept - seems to happen so often these days ;-)

Is FS educational ... or what ;-)

-=tom=-

 

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Tom Orle wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> MS is inconsistent as heck in it's airport naming convention - they
> use the Americanized names for German cities like Munich and Cologne.
> Yet, if if you are trying to fly to Calcutta, you won't find it since
> it's listed under Kolkata.
>
> Is that the Indian name or has another city changed it's name while I
> slept - seems to happen so often these days ;-)
>
> Is FS educational ... or what ;-)
>

It's listed both ways in the index of my Oxford World Atlas, but the Indian
version on the map.

You're right, FS is a learning treat!

Cheers'n Beers.. [_])
Don

 

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"Tom Orle" <xspam.torle@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Hi folks,
>
> MS is inconsistent as heck in it's airport naming convention - they
> use the Americanized names for German cities like Munich and Cologne.
> Yet, if if you are trying to fly to Calcutta, you won't find it since
> it's listed under Kolkata.
>
> Is that the Indian name or has another city changed it's name while I
> slept - seems to happen so often these days ;-)
>
> Is FS educational ... or what ;-)
>
> -=tom=-

Actually, the friendly Customer Service folks at (not at) MS took a moment
from their scripts, called in and corrected the spelling...

Jay B

 

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"Tom Orle" <xspam.torle@comcast.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hi folks,
>
> MS is inconsistent as heck in it's airport naming convention - they
> use the Americanized names for German cities like Munich and Cologne.
> Yet, if if you are trying to fly to Calcutta, you won't find it since
> it's listed under Kolkata.
>
> Is that the Indian name or has another city changed it's name while I
> slept - seems to happen so often these days ;-)
>
> Is FS educational ... or what ;-)
>
> -=tom=-

Oh yes, these are in the native writing form, and of course there are some
others. Mumbai instead of Bombay.....;-))
Sorry, I didn't check whether it's named that way in FS. In R/L it is.......
--
Oskar
(retired captain)
Remember, in the great scheme of things, we're all small potatoes...

 

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"Oskar Wagner" <rengaw@swissonline.ch> wrote:

>Oh yes, these are in the native writing form, and of course there are some
>others. Mumbai instead of Bombay.....;-))

>Sorry, I didn't check whether it's named that way in FS. In R/L it is.......

It's Mumbai - just checked while flying EDDF to Kolkata.

Another amazing event - here I cruise at FL410 toward Kolkata and it's
snowing big flakes somewhere over Kazakhstan!!! Wow ....

This man says - "Remember, in the great scheme of things, we're all
small potatoes... "

I'm 6'2" and 248lbs and no-one ever called me small :-((

Have a good day. Auf Wiedersehen and Ciao...

-=tom=-

 

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OK, you're a BIG potato in the great scheme of things. Happy? : )

CYYZ

"Tom Orle" <xspam.torle@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "Oskar Wagner" <rengaw@swissonline.ch> wrote:
>
>>Oh yes, these are in the native writing form, and of course there are some
>>others. Mumbai instead of Bombay.....;-))
>
>>Sorry, I didn't check whether it's named that way in FS. In R/L it
>>is.......
>
> It's Mumbai - just checked while flying EDDF to Kolkata.
>
> Another amazing event - here I cruise at FL410 toward Kolkata and it's
> snowing big flakes somewhere over Kazakhstan!!! Wow ....
>
> This man says - "Remember, in the great scheme of things, we're all
> small potatoes... "
>
> I'm 6'2" and 248lbs and no-one ever called me small :-((
>
> Have a good day. Auf Wiedersehen and Ciao...
>
> -=tom=-
>

 

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Arthur wrote:
> OK, you're a BIG potato in the great scheme of things. Happy? : )
>


Is that like BS???

[Big Spud}

d:->))

 

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"Arthur" <alspectorz@rogers.com> wrote:

>OK, you're a BIG potato in the great scheme of things. Happy? : )
>
>CYYZ

Thanks - much better :->
-=t=-