Airport Codes

[Carsten Bauer]

Hi all,

I'm trying to work our the IATA codes for the following airports:
ICOA for Barimunya which is YBRY.
Coondewanna which is YCWA.
and West Angelas which is YANG.

What are the IATA Codes for these Airport?
YBRY is either YNN or BYP
YCWA is either AEC or CJD.
and YANG is either WES or WLP?

Who determines these codes? Air Servers or the Airport owners?

Cheers

Carsten

[Grahame Hutchison]

I think you need scheduled commercial services for the allocation of an IATA Airport Code.

[Maikha Ly]

I'm also trying to figure out these things too, curious as to why many airports across country NSW begin with YS (Assuming S for Sydney) and others don't, while some airports like Albury begin with YM.

I'm sure there's a reason! :)

[Fred C]

Y Australia
M Melbourne
??????

[Jason H]

I think he is referring to why some airports include the nearest capital city, like Albury YMAY, while others don't, like Wollongong YWOL. I think it has something to do with the primary navaid at the aerodrome. For example, Albury uses the VOR which is 'AY' so the logical ICAO code would be YMAY, whereas Wollongong only has a NDB which is 'WOL', therefore YWOL.

[Mick F]

I believe places like YMAY Albury, YSTW (Tamworth), YBMA (Mount Isa), YBRK (Rockhampton) all have the first letter as Y for Australia (obviously), then the first letter of the original FIR region (when there was Melbourne Centre, Sydney Centre, Perth Centre, etc.) if an ATC service was offered at these places, for example, Flight Service. The last 2 letters are the specific airport identifier.

That's my understanding of it, if someone can provide some concrete evidence that'd be good.

Cheers

Mick