Talk:Leonardo da Vinci Airport

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[edit] Name

Why was named after Leonardo Da Vinci? User:Patricknoddy User talk:Patricknoddy 9:05 August 22, 2004 (EDT)

[edit] NWA service

People keep deleting Northwest Airlines from the list of airlines serving Rome. NWA flies to DTW seasonally so it needs to be noted!!! Bucs2004 23:51, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page title

The airport authority lists the airport as Rome Leonardo da Vinci Fiumicino Airport. The italics indicate one of two names. No one calls it "Rome Leonardo da Vinci Fiumicino Airport". That title also came up around 750 times in a Google search, vs over 90,000 for Leonardo da Vinci Airport. DB (talk) 05:01, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Granted, the popularity contest between the two is won by "Leonardo da Vinci Airport", but you are overlooking the obvious - the official name of the airport is: Rome Leonardo da Vinci (Fiumicino) Airport, sometimes spelled without the parentheses, and neither Italian nor English admits specifying two names at once by embedding one, in italics, inside the other. :) Granted, the propagation of the full name is relatively limited (yet) by comparison with the entrenched ones in the common usage (Rome-Fiumicino, and later, Leonardo da Vinci), nonetheless the article's infobox should reflect the official name, which is also the name used in the airport's address, and the official name should be included in the article text, preferrably followed in italics by the same rendered in the local language -- Italian: Aeroporto Leonardo da Vinci di Fiumicino. That would be the encyclopedic treatment. See pages such as Priceline.com, A-Z World Airports on Line and Rome Airport Guide at WorldAirportGuide.com for instances of sources listing the full official name -- albeit in slightly varying typographical guises -- sometimes with a dash separating Rome from the rest of it, sometimes with Fiumincino in parentheses, or as a straight-shot (with italics emphasizing the patronage...no, that's the wrong word -- commemoration?) on the official airport site. --Mareklug ^talk 13:03, 18 May 2007 (UTC)