Chip Jones wrote:

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Newps" wrote in message
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They being center guys. 20 knots to a tower controller is trivial.


Center guys had the designators changed? Why would they do that?



I thought it was the bloody FRENCH who had the type designators changed, via
ICAO. Right after they got finished butchering our WX format. Apparently,
they don't appreciate the difference between an MD80 and an MD88 (both are
coded MD80), but they do care about the difference between the A320 and
A321...

MD88 has its own type designator according to
http://www.faa.gov/atpubs/ATC/Appendices/atcapda.html