PHL City Code: Philadelphia IATA Airports

PHL identifies the city of Philadelphia, United States, in IATA coding. Airport codes in this dataset for that city: PHL. A city code is not always the same as an airport code.

Overview

PHL is the IATA city code stored for Philadelphia, United States (US). City codes group one or more airports. In this dataset PHL is aligned with airport PHL. Some cities share the airport code; others (NYC, LON, TYO) do not. Airport names stored: PHL Philadelphia International Airport. GDS availability and some pricing entries use the city code when the traveller can use any airport in the metro. Ticketed segments still print a specific airport such as JFK rather than NYC. This page does not list every airfield in the metropolitan area, only rows in the catalog. Timezone and ICAO live on each airport page.

How to use this page

  1. Search PHL or Philadelphia in the city code finder.
  2. Open each airport page for ICAO and timezone.
  3. Parse the actual PNR to see which airport was ticketed.

Example

Example: a PNR city pair may use PHL as the airport. If a host screen shows city PHL, confirm it matches this metro before quoting.

FAQs

What is the PHL city code?

PHL is stored as the IATA city code for Philadelphia, United States.

Is PHL an airport?

In this dataset PHL is also used with airport PHL.

Which airports are in Philadelphia?

Stored airports: PHL. Others are unavailable in this dataset.

How is PHL used in a GDS?

City codes appear in some availability and pricing entries. Ticketed segments use a specific airport code.

Is PHL the same as NYC-style metro codes?

Here PHL matches a single stored airport. Metro codes such as NYC still differ from JFK.

What country is PHL?

United States (US).

Can I convert a PNR that uses this city?

Yes. Paste the itinerary into the PNR parser. The ticketed airport codes on segments are what get parsed.

Are these all airports in the city?

No. Only airports present in this product dataset are listed.

How do I open PHL airport pages?

Use the airport links for PHL.

Where is the timezone?

On each airport page (IANA zone), not on the city code itself.

Do you invent missing city codes?

No. Unknown codes are marked unavailable.

When was this updated?

Content follows the stored city/airport catalog. Template date 17 Aug 2026.

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