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66-531: Adisumarmo Airport ( IATA : SOC , ICAO : WAHQ ) is a domestic airport in Boyolali Regency , Central Java , Indonesia. It is located 14 km north of Downtown Surakarta . It is the main airport of Boyolali and Surakarta and the surrounding area, also known as Greater Solo. The airport also serves as an alternative airport to Adisutjipto Airport in Yogyakarta during a disaster, such as during

132-946: A sale and leaseback agreement for its U.S. stores, and most of its UK gas stations and restaurants would be sold to retail chain Asda (which had recently been acquired by EG founders Mohsin and Zuber Issa ) in 2023, along with EG On the Move —a separate company led by Zuber. On August 19, 2024, Couche-Tard announced it would buy Pittsburgh -based GetGo from Giant Eagle , greatly expanding Circle K's presence in Pennsylvania (all of its existing stores in that state are descended from Lawson's/Dairy Mart) and complimenting its existing stores in Ohio, Indiana , and West Virginia , and add to its stores in Maryland . A 2021 report on wage theft by

198-593: A dollar. The price point of its 44-ounce size (marketed as "Epic XL" in some regions) may vary, as it may be under or over $ 1, depending on the region. The Polar Pop was first introduced in Bigfoot convenience stores by Johnson Oil Company in Columbus, Indiana , prior to its acquisition by Alimentation Couche-Tard. After the acquisition, the company began rebranding fountain drinks in other stores owned by Couche-Tard. As of 2018, Circle K sells 17 Polar Pops every second in

264-740: A large, multinational convenience store operator based in the Montreal area, for US$ 830 million ($ 1.37 billion in 2023 dollars ). In 2005, Taiwan 's OK Convenience Store chain terminated its franchise agreement with Circle K. In 2006, the company acquired the 90-store Spectrum chain serving Georgia and Alabama , the CFM chain in Missouri , 35 Sterling Dairy locations in Northwest Ohio , and 26 stores under various brands from Chico Enterprises of Morgantown, West Virginia . This came after

330-567: A new airport is built, replacing the old one, leaving the city's new "major" airport (or the only remaining airport) code to no longer correspond with the city's name. The original airport in Nashville, Tennessee, was built in 1936 as part of the Works Progress Administration and called Berry Field with the designation, BNA. A new facility known as Nashville International Airport was built in 1987 but still uses BNA. This

396-933: A portion of the Ultramar chain in Canada to Circle K (with the latter also switching fuel suppliers to Irving). Also in 2017, Couche-Tard bought Holiday Stationstores , a Minnesota-based chain of fuel stations in the Midwestern United States . Couche-Tard would integrate business practices from Holiday into the Circle K business, including its food service model and car wash subscriptions. Some locations also piloted store formats patterned after that of Holiday. In November 2018, Circle K opened its first store in New Zealand through master franchisee Pamma Retail Group. In September 2021, Circle K announced

462-509: Is GSN and its IATA code is SPN, and some coincide with IATA codes of non-U.S. airports. Canada's unusual codes—which bear little to no similarity with any conventional abbreviation to the city's name—such as YUL in Montréal , and YYZ in Toronto , originated from the two-letter codes used to identify weather reporting stations in the 1930s. The letters preceding the two-letter code follow

528-513: Is able to serve wide body jet like Airbus A330, Boeing 747, and Boeing 777. The Airbus A330 is usually operated for Hajj flights in Hajj season or for some extra flight in Ramadan season. The airport terminal has minimarkets ( Circle K and Indomaret ), food counters, shopping area and some food counters near the boarding lounge. The old passenger terminal is now used for VIP flights. As of May 2024,

594-617: Is available. However, many railway administrations have their own list of codes for their stations, such as the list of Amtrak station codes . Airport codes arose out of the convenience that the practice brought pilots for location identification in the 1930s. Initially, pilots in the United States used the two-letter code from the National Weather Service (NWS) for identifying cities. This system became unmanageable for cities and towns without an NWS identifier, and

660-523: Is different from the name in English, yet the airport code represents only the English name. Examples include: Due to scarcity of codes, some airports are given codes with letters not found in their names: The use of 'X' as a filler letter is a practice to create three-letter identifiers when more straightforward options were unavailable: Some airports in the United States retained their NWS ( National Weather Service ) codes and simply appended an X at

726-513: Is in conjunction to rules aimed to avoid confusion that seem to apply in the United States, which state that "the first and second letters or second and third letters of an identifier may not be duplicated with less than 200 nautical miles separation." Thus, Washington, D.C. area's three airports all have radically different codes: IAD for Washington–Dulles , DCA for Washington–Reagan (District of Columbia Airport), and BWI for Baltimore (Baltimore–Washington International, formerly BAL). Since HOU

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792-543: Is not followed outside the United States: In addition, since three letter codes starting with Q are widely used in radio communication, cities whose name begins with "Q" also had to find alternate codes, as in the case of: IATA codes should not be confused with the FAA identifiers of U.S. airports. Most FAA identifiers agree with the corresponding IATA codes, but some do not, such as Saipan , whose FAA identifier

858-416: Is used for William P. Hobby Airport , the new Houston–Intercontinental became IAH. The code BKK was originally assigned to Bangkok–Don Mueang and was later transferred to Suvarnabhumi Airport , while the former adopted DMK. The code ISK was originally assigned to Gandhinagar Airport (Nashik's old airport) and later on transferred to Ozar Airport (Nashik's current airport). Shanghai–Hongqiao retained

924-563: The 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake and the 2010 Mount Merapi eruption . The airport also serves as the base of the Indonesian Air Force which is known as Lanud Adisumarmo . However, the airport do not serve as a home base to any combat squadron of the Indonesian Air Force. Instead, it serves as the training institute for future Indonesian Air Force cadets. The airbase also oversee the air defense of Surakarta and

990-571: The Canadian transcontinental railroads were built, each station was assigned its own two-letter Morse code : When the Canadian government established airports, it used the existing railway codes for them as well. If the airport had a weather station, authorities added a "Y" to the front of the code, meaning "Yes" to indicate it had a weather station or some other letter to indicate it did not. When international codes were created in cooperation with

1056-817: The Center for Public Integrity named Circle K as one of the "worst offenders" in the United States. A class-action lawsuit was brought against the company in 2014, for which the company agreed in 2019 to pay a settlement of US$ 8.3 million. Circle K settled a similar class-action lawsuit in 2015 as well. Fountain drinks at Circle K are sold in Polar Pop cups, previously called Thirst Busters, and are available in expanded polystyrene cups. In areas where expanded polystyrene containers are illegal, plastic or paper cups are offered. The 52-ounce cups are plastic. Most American locations offer any size, 32 ounce or under, for under $ 1, while 52 ounces or above cups are priced at over

1122-716: The Cleveland Guardians strikeout sign. It is located in center field at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio . The "K" logo represents the "K" used for strikeouts in traditional baseball scorekeeping and is replicated with each strikeout. The same sponsorship is in place with the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona . If the Diamondbacks strikeout ten batters or more,

1188-540: The Jakarta -Solo & Solo-Jakarta route with a frequency of 3-times a week. On 25 July 1977, the airport changed its name to Adi Sumarmo Airport, which was taken from the name of Adisumarmo Wiryokusumo, the younger brother of Augustinus Adisucipto . Together, they are known as the pioneers of the Indonesian Air Force. On 31 March 1989, the airport was designated an international airport by serving Solo- Kuala Lumpur & Solo- Singapore flight routes. On 1 January 1992,

1254-701: The "Kangaroo Express" name, were expected to be rebranded under the Circle K banner. On August 12, 2015, Circle K opened its first five convenience stores in Costa Rica , Central America, after having bought and rebranded the local convenience store chain Delimart. On September 23, 2015, Couche-Tard unveiled a refreshed brand identity for Circle K, and announced that the Statoil (Northern, Central and Eastern Europe) and Mac's (English Canada) brands would be converted to Circle K. In 2016, Couche-Tard acquired

1320-461: The 2005 rebranding of the various Couche-Tard stores ( Mac's , Bigfoot , Dairy Mart , and Handy Andy) under the more nationally known Circle K brand. In mid-2006, Alimentation Couche-Tard entered into a franchising agreement with ConocoPhillips to brand some of its company-owned stores as Circle K, in the western portion of the U.S. ConocoPhillips remodeled the stores into the Circle K scheme but continued to operate them. The stores continued to have

1386-695: The Baltics, Poland, and western Russia for $ 2.8 billion. On February 10, 2014, Modelo Group sold the Tiendas Extra brand of stores to the Mexican franchise of Circle K, Circulo K. On December 18, 2014, Couche-Tard announced its acquisition of The Pantry for $ 860 million all-cash tender ($ 1.11 billion in 2023 dollars ). The acquisition closed in March 2015. Following the closing, all stores that were owned and operated by The Pantry, many of them under

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1452-532: The Circle K and Shell brands as the most common. Other brands of fuel sold at Circle K stores include Valero , BP , Exxon , Marathon , Irving , Mobil , Esso and Phillips 66 . Approximately 13% of stores worldwide do not sell fuel. Circle K operates stores in the United States, Canada, Europe (the Nordics, Baltics, Poland, Russia, & Ireland), and Hong Kong, and has franchises in Mexico (it partners with

1518-807: The Dutch East Indies , the airport was destroyed by the Dutch to prevent it from being captured intact by the Japanese, but the Japanese military rebuilt it and it serves as a military base for the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service . After the Independence of Indonesia , the airport continues to serve as a military airbase, this time for the Indonesian Air Force . The airbase was first used officially for commercial flights on 23 April 1974 served by Garuda Indonesia on

1584-743: The Irish service station chain Topaz . In April 2018, Couche-Tard announced that they too would be rebranded to Circle K. Couche-Tard similarly acquired Imperial Oil 's Esso retail locations in Ontario (228) and Quebec (50) the same year, and rebranded the convenience stores in Ontario (many of which previously operated under the On the Run brand) to Circle K. In 2017, Couche-Tard completed its acquisition of CST Brands , adding stores formerly owned by Valero Energy , and

1650-941: The Mainways in Newfoundland and Labrador did not change until summer 2010. The parties had earlier formed a similar partnership in Quebec , with the stores there operated as Couche-Tard. In April 2009, ExxonMobil sold 43 Phoenix stores to parent company Couche-Tard as part of a sale of the larger On the Run franchise. These 43 stores were to be rebranded under the Circle K name. In July 2010, Circle K had dropped down to fourth rank in number of stores (3,455), behind 7-Eleven (6,523 stores), BP (4,730 stores), and Shell (4,630 convenience stores) in 2010. In April 2012, Circle K purchased Norway -based Statoil Fuel and Retail ASA and its 2300 fuel stations located in Scandinavia ,

1716-484: The Mexican stores " Tiendas Extra " created by Modelo Group), Cambodia, China, Egypt, Guam, Honduras, Indonesia, Jamaica, Macau, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam. In Hong Kong and Macau , the stores are called OK in reference to the circle around the K. Circle K Hong Kong was founded in 1985 by Li & Fung Retailing (later Fung Retailing) as licensee of

1782-800: The U.S. For example, several airports in Alaska have scheduled commercial service, such as Stebbins and Nanwalek , which use FAA codes instead of ICAO codes. Thus, neither system completely includes all airports with scheduled service. Some airports are identified in colloquial speech by their IATA code. Examples include LAX and JFK . Circle K Circle K Stores, Inc. is a North American chain of convenience stores headquartered in Tempe, Arizona , and owned by Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc. , based in Laval, Quebec . Founded in 1951 in El Paso, Texas ,

1848-464: The United States, Circle K is second to 7-Eleven 's 9,348 stores (as of July 2019). As of February 2020, there are more than 14,800 stores with the Circle K brand worldwide. Within the United States, Circle K owns and operates stores in 48 states (the two states without being Nebraska and Utah), with the largest concentration of stores found in Louisiana. Fuel is sold under various brands, with

1914-481: The United States, because "Y" was seldom used in the United States, Canada simply used the weather station codes for its airports, changing the "Y" to a "Z" if it conflicted with an airport code already in use. The result is that most major Canadian airport codes start with "Y" followed by two letters in the city's name (for example, YOW for O tta w a , YWG for W innipe g , YYC for C algar y , or YVR for V ancouve r ), whereas other Canadian airports append

1980-739: The United States. The Froster , which was introduced to Mac's stores in 1998, became very popular throughout Western Canada and Ontario . The American version of the Froster was introduced in 1999. Circle K was a part-time primary sponsor of the No. 28 IndyCar Series racecar driven by Ryan Hunter-Reay of Andretti Autosport between 2011 and 2013. In 2014, it switched to KVSH Racing driver Sébastien Bourdais . Circle K, along with Oberto Sausage Company , currently sponsors Marco Andretti . In 2017, Circle K went to NASCAR , sponsoring Matt Kenseth and Joe Gibbs Racing with full livery for six races. It

2046-754: The airport and faster than using a car which usually takes 40 to 60 minutes. IATA airport code The assignment of these codes is governed by IATA Resolution 763, and it is administered by the IATA's headquarters in Montreal , Canada. The codes are published semi-annually in the IATA Airline Coding Directory. IATA provides codes for airport handling entities, and for certain railway stations. Alphabetical lists of airports sorted by IATA code are available. A list of railway station codes , shared in agreements between airlines and rail lines such as Amtrak , SNCF , and Deutsche Bahn ,

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2112-554: The airport does not serve international routes to Malaysia, Singapore and Saudi Arabia due to decision of Ministry of Transportation (except for Hajj & Umrah flights). Perum DAMRI operates airport shuttle buses that serve several destination from Adisumarmo Airport. Since May 2011, Batik Solo Trans buses also connects the airport to the city. Various taxi and shuttle services are provided by numerous service providers. The 13.5-kilometer airport rail connects from Solo Balapan Station to Adi Soemarmo Airport. Construction of

2178-440: The airport itself instead of the city it serves, while another code is reserved which refers to the city itself which can be used to search for flights to any of its airports. For instance: Or using a code for the city in one of the major airports and then assigning another code to another airport: When different cities with the same name each have an airport, they need to be assigned different codes. Examples include: Sometimes,

2244-439: The airport rail line consists of two segments, namely segment 1, ranging from Solo Balapan Station to Solo Baru Station along 3.5 km which is the existing railway track. Meanwhile, segment 2, starting from Solo Baru Station to Adi Sumarmo Airport along the 10 km to be built new railway line. The presence of the airport train is one of the government's efforts to realize the integration between public transport modes and meet

2310-469: The airport was handed to Angkasa Pura I . On 28 January 2008, the airport was closed to all commercial traffic for several hours while the body of former Indonesian President Suharto was transported from Jakarta's Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport . On 2016, Lion Air makes Adisumarmo International Airport as one of its hub in its flight connectivity. It aims to develop service routes from Central Java, especially from Solo to various cities both in

2376-418: The airport's former name, such as Orlando International Airport 's MCO (for Mc C o y Air Force Base), or Chicago's O'Hare International Airport , which is coded ORD for its original name: Or char d Field. In rare cases, the code comes from the airport's unofficial name, such as Kahului Airport 's OGG (for local aviation pioneer Jimmy H ogg ). In large metropolitan areas, airport codes are often named after

2442-535: The brand globally, including Canada (except Quebec, rebranding from the Mac's brand), Europe (rebranding from the Statoil brand), and the United States (rebranding from the Kangaroo Express brand and updating the existing Circle K brand). Since the 1980s, Circle K has been the largest chain of company-owned and operated (non-franchised) convenience stores in the United States. With 7,230 stores overall in

2508-502: The code SHA, while the newer Shanghai–Pudong adopted PVG. The opposite was true for Berlin : the airport Berlin–Tegel used the code TXL, while its smaller counterpart Berlin–Schönefeld used SXF; the Berlin Brandenburg Airport has the airport code BER, which is also part of its branding. The airports of Hamburg (HAM) and Hannover (HAJ) are less than 100 nautical miles (190 km) apart and therefore share

2574-539: The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 1990 and went through several owners, before being acquired by Alimentation Couche-Tard in 2003. As of February 2020, Circle K has 9,799 stores in North America, 2,697 stores in Europe, and an additional 2,380 stores operating under franchise agreements worldwide. In 2015, Circle K unveiled a new logo and brand identity, and Couche-Tard announced that it would deploy

2640-610: The company sent a letter to its over 8,000 employees announcing that it will cut off the medical coverage of those who become sick or injured as a result of AIDS, alcohol, drug abuse or self-inflicted wounds. The company stated that "There are certain lifestyle decisions that we are just not going to assure the results of." Fortunes declined in the late 1980s as the U.S. economy began to slow down, and Circle K filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May 1990; Eller resigned as CEO. Some underperforming locations were sold or closed. In 1993

2706-476: The company was purchased by Investcorp , an international investment group, and emerged from bankruptcy. In 1996, Circle K was acquired by Tosco Corporation , an independent petroleum refiner and marketer, but kept its headquarters in Phoenix. Tosco was purchased in 2001 by Phillips Petroleum, which, in 2002, merged with Conoco to form ConocoPhillips. In 2003, Circle K was purchased by Alimentation Couche-Tard ,

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2772-494: The company's CEO from 1983 to 1990. During that time, Eller built Circle K into the second largest convenience store operation and the largest publicly owned convenience store chain in the U.S. with 4,631 stores in 32 states and an additional 1,300 or so licensed or joint venture stores in 13 foreign countries. Under Eller's leadership, the company grew from annual sales of $ 747 million ($ 2.29 billion in 2023 dollars ) to over $ 3 billion ($ 7 billion in 2023 dollars ). In 1988,

2838-562: The company's home base since 1957. (Hervey would go on to serve two terms as mayor of El Paso.) By 1975, there were 1,000 Circle K stores across the U.S. In 1979, Circle K first expanded its reach into foreign markets via a licensing agreement which established the first Circle K stores in Japan by UNY . Until 2018, Circle K stores in Japan were run by the FamilyMart Company, that was named Circle K Sunkus Company until 2016 and

2904-425: The country and abroad. There are 5 domestic flight routes that opened from and to Solo, among others, from and to Banjarmasin , Lombok , Palangkaraya , Makassar , and Pontianak . Lion Air will make several additional services such as, adding new routes from and to the city of Solo and the addition of frequencies of existing flight routes. On 2 March 2009, a new terminal began operation which has more capacity than

2970-446: The customer experience. The rebranding occurred over the following five years and as of March 2020, all of Europe and 85% of North America had been updated with the Circle K brand and logo. Entrepreneur Fred Hervey purchased three Kay's Food Stores in El Paso, Texas , in 1951. Hervey renamed the stores as "Circle K Food Stores, Inc." rather than "Kay." He grew the Circle K chain into neighboring New Mexico and Arizona, which has been

3036-934: The end. Examples include: A lot of minor airfields without scheduled passenger traffic have ICAO codes but not IATA codes, since the four letter codes allow more number of codes, and IATA codes are mainly used for passenger services such as tickets, and ICAO codes by pilots. In the US, such airfields use FAA codes instead of ICAO. There are airports with scheduled service for which there are ICAO codes but not IATA codes, such as Nkhotakota Airport/Tangole Airport in Malawi or Chōfu Airport in Tokyo, Japan. There are also several minor airports in Russia (e.g., Omsukchan Airport ) which lack IATA codes and instead use internal Russian codes for booking. Flights to these airports cannot be booked through

3102-557: The first three letters of the city in which it is located, for instance: The code may also be a combination of the letters in its name, such as: Sometimes the airport code reflects pronunciation, rather than spelling, namely: For many reasons, some airport codes do not fit the normal scheme described above. Some airports, for example, cross several municipalities or regions, and therefore, use codes derived from some of their letters, resulting in: Other airports—particularly those serving cities with multiple airports—have codes derived from

3168-425: The following format: Most large airports in Canada have codes that begin with the letter "Y", although not all "Y" codes are Canadian (for example, YUM for Yuma, Arizona , and YNT for Yantai , China), and not all Canadian airports start with the letter "Y" (for example, ZBF for Bathurst, New Brunswick ). Many Canadian airports have a code that starts with W, X or Z, but none of these are major airports. When

3234-597: The form of " YYZ ", a song by the rock band Rush , which utilizes the Morse code signal as a musical motif. Some airports have started using their IATA codes as brand names , such as Calgary International Airport (YYC) and Vancouver International Airport (YVR). Numerous New Zealand airports use codes that contain the letter Z, to distinguish them from similar airport names in other countries. Examples include HLZ for Hamilton , ZQN for Queenstown , and WSZ for Westport . Predominantly, airport codes are named after

3300-487: The international air booking systems or have international luggage transferred there, and thus, they are booked instead through the airline or a domestic booking system. Several heliports in Greenland have 3-letter codes used internally which might be IATA codes for airports in faraway countries. There are several airports with scheduled service that have not been assigned ICAO codes that do have IATA codes, especially in

3366-612: The name of the airport itself, for instance: This is also true with some cities with a single airport (even if there is more than one airport in the metropolitan area of said city), such as BDL for Hartford, Connecticut 's B ra dl ey International Airport or Baltimore's BWI, for B altimore/ W ashington I nternational Airport ; however, the latter also serves Washington, D.C. , alongside Dulles International Airport (IAD, for I nternational A irport D ulles) and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA, for D istrict of C olumbia A irport). The code also sometimes comes from

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3432-463: The name, but sold back to Couche-Tard in 2020. Circle K had 387 franchised locations throughout Hong Kong as of May 2020. The Circle K brand entered the Canadian market in 2008, in connection with Couche-Tard's acquisition of Irving Oil 's convenience store network. By 2019, more than 800 Mac's branded stores had been rebranded to Circle K throughout central and western Canada. In September 2015, Couche-Tard announced that Circle K would become

3498-492: The needs of community mobilization, and to create safe, secure, convenient and timely transportation facilities. The airport train is formally launched on December 29, 2019. By using the airport train, the distance from Solo to Adi Sumarmo Airport will only take in 19 minutes and 27 minutes from the airport to the city with headway 40 minutes. This is the first airport train in Indonesia connects city directly to departure hall in

3564-530: The new ConocoPhillips unified canopy design and ProClean fuels. These stores were spun off as Phillips 66 in May 2012. Another oil company, Canada -based Irving Oil , leased out its convenience stores operating under the Bluecanoe and Mainway banners in the United States and Atlantic Canada to Couche-Tard, which rebranded the locations to Circle K in July 2008, while still selling Irving-branded fuel. However,

3630-556: The old terminal. The new terminal is located to the north of the old terminal which belongs to the Air Force. The new terminal is built on an area of 13,000 square meters. The old terminal complex is only 4,000 square meters. The new terminal has parking facilities for nine narrow-body aircraft like the Boeing 737 Classic or three wide body planes and three narrow body planes. The terminal has three aerobridges with five gates. The airport

3696-416: The one they are located in: Other airport codes are of obscure origin, and each has its own peculiarities: In Asia, codes that do not correspond with their city's names include Niigata 's KIJ , Nanchang 's KHN and Pyongyang 's FNJ . EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg , which serves three countries, has three airport codes: BSL, MLH, EAP. Some cities have a name in their respective language which

3762-665: The purchase of 10 convenience and food stores from the Griffin Group in Ireland. All the stores being bought are in Dublin and located in busy areas such as O’Connell Street, College Green, Grafton Street and Sandyford. In February 2022, Couche-Tard announced that it would rebrand 12 Holiday Stationstores locations in Sioux Falls, South Dakota , to Circle K. In April 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported that Couche-Tard

3828-506: The same first and middle letters, indicating that this rule might be followed only in Germany. Many cities retain historical names in their airport codes, even after having undergone an official name/spelling/transliteration change: Some airport codes are based on previous names associated with a present airport, often with a military heritage. These include: Some airports are named for an administrative division or nearby city, rather than

3894-500: The station code of Malton, Mississauga , where it is located). YUL is used for Montréal–Trudeau (UL was the ID code for the beacon in the city of Kirkland , now the location of Montréal–Trudeau). While these codes make it difficult for the public to associate them with a particular Canadian city, some codes have become popular in usage despite their cryptic nature, particularly at the largest airports. Toronto's code has entered pop culture in

3960-402: The surrounding area. Lion Air declared the airport as a regional hub in 2016. On 2 April 2024, the Ministry of Transportation revoked the international status of the airport. The airport was formerly called Panasan Air Force Base , because it is located in Panasan area. The airport was built in 1940 by the Dutch Colonial Government as an emergency airstrip. During the Japanese invasion of

4026-401: The two-letter code of the radio beacons that were the closest to the actual airport, such as YQX in Gander or YXS in Prince George . Four of the ten provincial capital airports in Canada have ended up with codes beginning with YY, including: Canada's largest airport is YYZ for Toronto Pearson (as YTZ was already allocated to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport , the airport was given

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4092-529: The use of two letters allowed only a few hundred combinations; a three-letter system of airport codes was implemented. This system allowed for 17,576 permutations, assuming all letters can be used in conjunction with each other. Since the U.S. Navy reserved "N" codes, and to prevent confusion with Federal Communications Commission broadcast call signs , which begin with "W" or "K", the airports of certain U.S. cities whose name begins with one of these letters had to adopt "irregular" airport codes: This practice

4158-433: The worldwide brand of all of its convenience stores, replacing Mac's , Kangaroo Express , Statoil , and Holiday Stationstores brands (except the Couche-Tard brand in Quebec and the INGO brand in Europe). This global rebrand included the introduction of a new logo incorporating elements of its existing brands, improvements to its product offerings and technology, and investing in store-level improvements aimed at improving

4224-410: Was considering the British convenience store and restaurant operator EG Group , which would have given it a larger presence in Australia , Western Europe , and EG Group's home market of the United Kingdom , as well as the U.S. (where it had bought Kroger 's convenience store business, as well as Cumberland Farms ), especially in Florida , New England , and Ohio . EG Group would instead enter into

4290-402: Was named Circle K Japan Company until 2004, which licensed the Circle K brand from Alimentation Couche-Tard. In 2018, all Circle K stores in Japan were converted to FamilyMart stores. In 1983, the number of stores increased to 2,180 with the purchase of the 960-store UtoteM chain in the western and southern United States. Karl Eller , a prominent Phoenix, Arizona businessman, served as

4356-416: Was on the car when Kenseth won his final NASCAR Cup Race at that year's fall race at Phoenix Raceway . Also in 2017, Circle K became the official shirt sponsor of United Soccer League side North Carolina FC and signed a two-year sponsorship agreement with the Lithuanian Basketball League . Due to its sizable presence in Greater Cleveland , from the former Lawson/Dairy Mart stores, Circle K sponsors

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