When you’re traveling around the country, one of the last things you might be concerned about is the chosen letters of your airport code. Although if you’ve ever stumbled upon an airport code that was quite unusual, there’s a good chance you’ve never forgotten it. Provoking you to laugh or simple look twice, check out the five most unusual airport codes around the U.S.

  1. ECP

Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport/Facebook Everyone’s favorite airport code, Panama City’s Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport gets its abbreviation from the phrase ‘Everyone Can Party. The airport that opened in 2010 originally set out to make its code ‘TFB’ to stand for ‘The Florida Beaches’, but the code had already been taken by a tiny airport in Papua New Guinea. Needing another code to use, the officials supposedly went thorough the list of available codes and realized they could use ECP to play on the area’s notoriety of being a Spring Break haven.

  1. FAT

Fresno Yosemite International Airport/Facebook Self-explanatory, but still one that may invite a head-turn or giggle or two, Fresno Yosemite International Airport AKA the former Fresno Air Terminal gets the honor of having the airport code FAT.

  1. SUX

Sioux Gateway Airport/Facebook While Panama City may have used its famous party atmosphere to come up with an airport code, Sioux City flipped the roles and decided to embrace its airport code and make a community out of it. With the Sioux Gateway Airport earing the code SUX, the city now sells all sorts of merchandise and goodies that have SUX printed out all over them.

  1. EEK

Wikimedia/Porkypinekiwi EEK may be the sound you make when you’re frightened or caught by surprise, but this three letter gem also happens to be the airport code for Alaska’s Eek Airport. The secluded little airport is one that’s state-owned for public use.

  1. BAD

Gonzalo Alonso/Flickr Down in Louisiana, the Barksdale Air Force Base has the airport code BAD. Right in Bossier Parish, it’s easy to see why many of us have heard about this base before.

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Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport/Facebook

Everyone’s favorite airport code, Panama City’s Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport gets its abbreviation from the phrase ‘Everyone Can Party. The airport that opened in 2010 originally set out to make its code ‘TFB’ to stand for ‘The Florida Beaches’, but the code had already been taken by a tiny airport in Papua New Guinea. Needing another code to use, the officials supposedly went thorough the list of available codes and realized they could use ECP to play on the area’s notoriety of being a Spring Break haven.

Fresno Yosemite International Airport/Facebook

Self-explanatory, but still one that may invite a head-turn or giggle or two, Fresno Yosemite International Airport AKA the former Fresno Air Terminal gets the honor of having the airport code FAT.

Sioux Gateway Airport/Facebook

While Panama City may have used its famous party atmosphere to come up with an airport code, Sioux City flipped the roles and decided to embrace its airport code and make a community out of it. With the Sioux Gateway Airport earing the code SUX, the city now sells all sorts of merchandise and goodies that have SUX printed out all over them.

Wikimedia/Porkypinekiwi

EEK may be the sound you make when you’re frightened or caught by surprise, but this three letter gem also happens to be the airport code for Alaska’s Eek Airport. The secluded little airport is one that’s state-owned for public use.

Gonzalo Alonso/Flickr

Down in Louisiana, the Barksdale Air Force Base has the airport code BAD. Right in Bossier Parish, it’s easy to see why many of us have heard about this base before.

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