My father spent today in Sioux City at a board meeting. He came back from the return flight with news that the people of Sioux City are working to get their FAA designation changed.

It seems they don’t feel that SUX really captures the spirit of Sioux City. As they are the former home of Gateway, I can’t think of a more appropriate moniker. Yet it seems they’re not happy with anything:

This is not the first time Sioux City has tried to get rid of the SUX designator. In the ’80s, the city asked the FAA to change the code, Januska said, and it almost happened. But Sioux City was not overwhelmingly enthusiastic about the replacement options the FAA gave it, and decided to stay with what it had.

“One option the FAA gave Sioux City in the ’80s was to change the identifier to GAY,” Januska said, without comment. — a Chicago Tribune story, as reprinted by a site that has no trouble with SUX at all

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