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That could have sooo many reasons. "Berlin Municipal Airport" does come before "Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg" in the alphabet.

But.. looking for "London", 2 of the first 3 airports are in North America and arguably a lot of people would not count any of the first 5 (Lydd, Oxford & Southend) as London. Heathrow doesn't show up at all without specifying further.

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There's a few other areas where the text is suspect, e.g the international airport for Bali, in Denpasar won't show up in searches for Bali (colloquial name of the airport) or Denpasar (city referenced by the IATA code) both of which work in regular flight search, but requires entering the airport codes or its formal name Ngurah Rai. Extra confusion as there is a tiny airport called Bali Airport in Cameroon which shows up instead...

In theory, they could build a system which returns relevant airports ranked by size in terms of latest/peak passenger traffic figures

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/82162575#map=15/-8.7460/11...

Tags:

    addr:city=Denpasar
    aeroway=aerodrome
    iata=DPS
    icao=WADD
    name=Bandar Udara Internasional Ngurah Rai
    name:de=Internationaler Flughafen Ngurah Rai
    name:en=Ngurah Rai International Airport
    name:fr=Aéroport International Ngurah Rai
    name:ko=응우라라이공항
    operator=PT. Angkasa Pura I
    short_name=Bandara Internasional Ngurah Rai
    type=civil
    wikidata=Q1061846
    wikipedia=id:Bandar Udara Internasional Ngurah Rai

Colloquial names can be added with the various name tags: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Local_names_(loc_n... (I'm assuming the search is sourcing data from OSM).

How do these peripheral airports get to name themselves in such a misleading way? 'London Oxford airport' isn't even in Oxford; locals still call it Kidlington airport.

You should see what they name towns in Maine. Not the Paris you expected.

Oxford is a commuter city for London - you can drive to/from the centre of each in around 90mins

or London Heathrow to Oxford Airport in around 60mins

that's no time at all compared to the driving distances between major US cities, which I'm guessing is what this is based on

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