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EnBuff Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

The Definite Article with Airport Names

When do you use it and when do you not?

Do you have to look up the name on the airport's official website to determine whether it takes the definite article or not, or is there an easier way to figure this out?

Take Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, for example.

Both per its official website and Wikipedia, the name doesn't take the definite article.

http://flymsy.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong_New_Orleans_International_Airport

However, natives would still use the definite article with it, as in "The Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport is located in nearby Kenner, just fifteen miles west of the downtown area." The question is, "Are they wrong, or can the name go both ways--with and without the article"? I'm really confused.

Thanks in advance.
  

Top answer

When he thinks the listener knows the airport well, the speaker will drop the. Just a try. And I am not a teacher.

— Norwolf

  • When he thinks the listener knows the airport well, the speaker will drop the.
  • Just a try.
  • And I am not a teacher.
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When he thinks the listener knows the airport well, the speaker will drop the. Otherwise, he will takes the, for example, at the moment he is trying to introduce the airport to the listener.Just a try. And I am not a teacher.
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The official name, meaning the title of the airport, often would not contain an article, but it should still take an article when it is the object of a sentence.

For example: I live in Long Beach, and the airport is called "Long Beach Airport." I fly out of the Long Beach Airport when I travel.
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