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Following its renaming to President Donald J. Trump International Airport, passengers expecting to fly via the former Palm Beach International Airport are having their travel plans thrown into \u201cchaos.\u201d According to new reporting from the New York Times, since the airport adopted its new name in early July, the change has caused a flurry of \u201cconfusion\u201d among passengers and booking sites.<\/p>\n

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Per the Daily Beast<\/u>, \u201cPalm Beach International Airport in South Florida has had its name since 1948, but its branding has now been erased and its name changed to President Donald J. Trump International Airport. The switch \u2014 the first ever where an airport has adopted the name of a sitting president \u2014 has been accepted by the aviation world, but the transition has not been easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

While aviation groups explained that \u201csuch a move is highly unusual,\u201d stranger still was the decision to change the code from PBI to DJT. According to the International Air Transport Association, \u201cAssigned three-letter location identifiers are considered permanent and are almost never changed \u2014 and then only with strong justification, primarily concerning air safety.\u201d The FAA says that naming issues are determined on a local level, and the PBI rebrand was signed into law by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis earlier this year. The transition was rolled out in phases to provide the aviation industry with time to adjust, but as the Daily Beast explains, \u201cthe process has confused passengers who used the airport during that time, causing confusion for a month because of the difference between the airport name and the code.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to the Times,\u201d the Daily Beast elaborates, \u201csome people received notifications from travel agents and airlines that their flight itineraries had changed. As of Tuesday, no flights could be booked to PBI \u2014 they could on Monday \u2026 People looking to fly to Florida on Tuesday had to search for President Donald J. Trump International (DJT), although some booking sites were still bracketing PBI after the new name to help passengers connect the two.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Those who live in the vicinity of the airport \u2014 which is located just five miles from President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home \u2014 have expressed dismay at the change as well. As one resident told the Times, \u201cIt\u2019s definitely going to take a little getting used to with the code. I\u2019ve said PBI my entire life and I definitely will be saying it for a time moving forward. In a way it will always be PBI to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Daily Beast, \u201cThere have also been two lawsuits and thousands of people having signed petitions against the name change. There\u2019s even been a $30 million bomb threat.<\/u> Having obtained a comments log through the Florida Public Records Act, NOTUS<\/u> found that torrents of angry people had bombarded the airport with messages, most of them negative. One even cited Trump, saying there was a bomb at the airport and on a plane that was departing, threatening to set them off if the money wasn\u2019t sent.\u201d<\/p>\n

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