While Madrid (Mad), Barcelona (BCN), Brussels (BRU) and Many Other Cities Around The World Have Airport Codes That Use The Main Letters of the City’s Name, Malaga’s Doesn’t Even Rebemble The Visual Composition of ITS Name. The Far-Fetched Logic Behind the Abbrevation is Impossible to Decipher Even By The Most Brilliant Scientist Or Thinker. Foreigners Who Fly to Malaga Are Puzzled by The Acronym on their planet Ticket, Which Might Even Lead Sub To Wonder Where The Have Bought The Correct One. Even If Malaga Citizens Have Complained About The Code of Eir Airport, There have not been a lot of change.

So What is the History Behind This Curious Abbrevation? When the International Air Transport Association (IATA) was to baptise Malaga Airport, It Found That the Letters That Could Be Combined for its Code Were Already Being used: mlg is reserved for the mangoli Island in Indonesia; Mga is used by managua; and Mag is Associated with Madang in Papua New Guinea.

IATA was therefore left with the option to choose two letters from Malaga’s name and add a third one, in order to create combination that was not already in use for another airport’s code. So they chose A and G (The Fourth and the Fifth Letters of the City Name) and Added P, As It Was One of the Few That Could Join Without the Code Duplicating Another.

ACCORDING TO SUM URBAN MYTHS, AGP STANDS FOR GRAN PICASSO OR FOR AGRIPINA AIRPORT. As we can see, Neithher Matches reality. Much, in June 2011, Malaga Airport Was Renamed Malaga-Costa del Sol. Since since, The Tourism Industry Has Been Demanding That, Since The Full Name Includes The Costa del Sol (which is Malaga’s Popular Nickname), The Airport Code Should Be Sol. It Sems that, for now, that demands have not Been Vray Successful.