By air

Air travel, although environmentally not the best thing, gets us fast where we want. In this article you can find links for the bigger airlines (this is being updated), how the name airport is said in the seventeen MD-languages and finally abbreaviations for some international airports.

Here is a simple list of national airlines, in alphabetical order. The name link gives the company homepage in English, the W-link gives the Wikipedia page about the company in their respective language.

Air France - W
American Airlines - W
Austrian Airlines - W
British Airlines - W
Finnair - W
KLM - W
Lufthansa - W
Scandinavian Airlines - W

Airport in other languages

See below how the word airport is said in all the 17 MD-languages (look for the colors here):

airport  lentokenttä flygplats/flygfält flyveplads flyplass flugvöllur  
Flughafen(m) aéroport(m) aeropuerto aeroporto(m)  
αεροδρόμιο(n) аэродрóм kuukoo

Airport abbreviations

And then here is something that might interest those flying a lot - and even those who don't: abbreviations for airports around the world. Here is a good site for that, and a short list follows:
ADL = Adelaide International Airport (Adelaide, Australia)
AGP = Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Malaga, Spain)

ARN = Arlanda (Stockholm, Sweden)
BNE = Brisbane International (Brisbane, Australia)
CDG = Charles De Gaulle (Paris, France)
CPH = Kastrup (Copenhagen, Denmark)
DFW = Dallas/Fort Worth International (Dallas, Texas USA)
FRA = Frankfurt International Airport (Frankfurt, Germany)
GOT = Landvetter (Gothenburg, Sweden)
HEL = Helsinki-Vantaa (Vantaa, Finland)
HND = Tokyo Haneda International (Tokyo, Japan)
JFK = John F Kennedy International (New York, USA)
KEF = Keflavik International (Reykjavik, Iceland)
LAX = Los Angeles International (Los Angeles, CA USA) 
LGA = La Guardia (New York, USA)
LHR = London Heathrow (London, England)
LPA = Las Palmas (Gran Canaria, Spain)
MAD = Barajas (Madrid, Spain)
MCO = Orlando International (Orlando, FL USA) 
MIK =Mikkeli (Mikkeli, Finland)
MMX = Sturup (Malmö, Sweden)
NRT = Narita International Airport (Tokyo, Japan)
NYO = Skavsta (Stockholm, Sweden)
OSL = Oslo (Gardermoen) (Oslo, Norway)
OUL = Oulu (Finland)
PEK = Beijing Capital Int. (Beijing, China)
PIE = St. Petersburg-Clearwater International (Clearwater, FL USA) 
RIX = Riga International (Riga, Latvia)
SFO = San Francisco International (San Francisco, CA USA)
TKU = Turku (Finland)
TLL = Ulemiste (Tallinn, Estonia)
TMP =  Tampere-Pirkkala (Tampere, Finland)
TPA = Tampa International (Tampa, FL USA)
TXL = Berlin-Tegel (Berlin, Germany)
UKB = Kobe (Kobe, Japan)
URE = Kuressaare (Kuressaare, Estonia)
VIE = Schwehat International (Vienna, Austria)
YOK = Yokohama (Yokohama, Japan)
ZRH = Zürich-Kloten (Zurich, Switzerland)

This page is being updated.