American Airlines is e-mailing passengers booked to fly to West Palm Beach, to let them know they’re flying to President Donald J. Trump International Airport.
The airport’s IATA code will change from PBI to DJT on August 18. When American loaded its schedule change last weekend, that triggered a ‘schedule change’ for reservations booked to fly to the airport. That meant an email to affected customres, and also an app push alert “stating that the reason for this notification was due to the airport code changing, and that no action is required on their part.”
Subject: Your flight to/from West Palm Beach
Earlier, you received a schedule change notification for an upcoming trip involving President Donald J. Trump International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida.
No changes have been made to your scheduled flights, and no action is required on your part.
You received this notification because the airport code is changing from PBI to DJT on Aug. 18, and you will now see that reflected in your reservation details on the American Airlines app and on aa.com.
Thank you for choosing American Airlines. We look forward to welcoming you on board soon.
Reservations agents are being given the following talking points, to respond to customers calling in about the notification:
Here’s the script that agents were given to defend the name change. It’s unusual that American Airlines even puts the Trump name on airport departure screens – they do not generally put airport names in addition to cities on those screens, except where there’s more than one airport in the same city (like New York LaGuardia and JFK, Washington’s National and Dulles).
As long as it is named that I will not fly there.
When he’s finally out, we’re gonna rename it to ‘PDO.’
@Rob – Amazing how bad TDS impacts people. Get over yourself – it is an airport! He isn’t making money off you flying there. On the other hand if you prefer to fly to another airport and drive to Palm Beach then you are going out of your way and only hurting yourself (which is certainly fine with me). I love the anger and upset posts by those with TDS that hate anything that involves their President. The stock market is near an all time high and I’m making more than ever – that is all that really matters and anyone can benefit. It is all about the market, defense and protecting our borders. He has done a great job on each and I frankly don’t care (and neither do most Americans) about the social issues or petty concerns you have with him.
@Retired Gambler — Bahaha! @Rob got you so good! Do another paragraph. Go on. Can’t wait.
@Retired Gambler,
They don’t have TDS, they’re just retarded. If you ignore them, they will eventually go away.
@Retired Gambler. Glad you’re doing so well. “May the odds be ever in your favor!”
@Retired Gambler — Don’t listen to @Kevin! Keep going! *wink*
Hey Rob – good for you! Next time you come to Palm Beach just fly into Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock and enjoy your short drive over.
As far as I’m concerned, Palm Beach no longer has an airport! And if many boycott that airport, their daily operations count will decrease resulting in less monies given to support that airport to operate!
@Rob
@Helen P
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Why doesn’t it just say DJT? Looks like word vomit.
Also TDS isn’t real. It’s just gobbledygook. Lot of self hate in the comments.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is real indeed, but it refers to Trump himself being deranged. He’s deranged every damn day. He attacks mail-in voting while voting by mail. He mocks vaccines while getting vaccinated. He started another forever war in the middle East and we’re stuck there because of his vanity. He’s pushed up inflation. He pushes “buy American” while selling foreign made Trump merchandise. He rages about classified information while mishandling it. He falls asleep constantly these days on the job after calling Joe Biden “sleepy.” His personal corruption is sickening. The hypocrisy is staggering.
I really don’t get it. The LAS is named after a late Democratic Senator and so is the international terminal at SFO. Should Republicans avoid it. Makes zero sense.
If its convenient to fly to this airport in getting to my destination, I would fly to this airport as i have to LAS or when i have taken an international flight out of SFO, and i would continue to do so in the future. Journey’s should be based on convenience.
@Walter Barry, @Andrew, @BBT — What are your ‘solutions’ to this ‘problem’? Tell us how you really feel. Don’t hold back. This is a safe space.
If I fly to Toronto, I must fly to Pearson airport, named after a life-long parasite (‘civil servant’), having never worked at a proper job in his life who joined the Liberal party and became PM. One of his achievements was to move the peacekeepers out of the Sinai so that the Egyptian dictator Nasser could invade Israel in 1967, which considering the loyalty Jews have shown to the grits seems a bit ungrateful. Luckily for Israel it struck first.
If I fly to Montreal I must fly to Trudeau airport, named after another person who never had a proper job, living on his inheritance and who was in Red China during the great leap forward, when 50 million people were starved to death for the gratification of the dictator Mao, who aided the Russians fly Cubans to Angola, propped up the evil Castro, and helped convert, with his friend Ivan Head and CIDA, Tanzania from a net agricultural exporter into a net importer with famine and malnutrition. The goal of aid is to cripple economies so that they need more aid and more and more otherwise unemployable parasites need to be hired to administer the aid and low information voters can be made to feel ashamed about living in free countries rather than in socialist dictatorships.
If I whinge about that what would you think about it? Do you think that people who refuse to fly to JFK because they are upset about Fiddle and Faddle etc. should be indulged?
Several airports have bad names:
Washington National
Little Rock National
West Palm Beach International
It has never and would never enter my mind to avoid airports, bridges, roads, highways, etc., because I disliked the person they were named after.
I still chuckle at those who see a need to rant every time someone says “Reagan” for DCA. Really? I feel sad for them — what miserable lives they must have to live like that.
Will they paint the airport prison gray and the uniform will be black and white stripes. There will be a Epstein lounge
@Tomri — I just had a “20 minute phone call” with the Senator from Kentucky on this very subject. Expect big announcements from him soon!
I have no problem flying g into DCA.
You don’t need to be a liberal to see that anyone who approves of Trump is a cult member. I have money in the market, but there are more important things than money. Maybe our democracy?
If MAGA could afford air travel they absolutely would boycott Harry Reid Airport
@Winston — Mhm. I really feel for them. If only they could read, too. *sigh*
Don’t stop at airport codes! To this day, I refuse to take any flight that is commanded by a pilot. Because, you know, “pilot” is just a code for Pontius Pilate. Look it up on 4chan if you don’t believe me. The mere fact that don’t believe me is all the proof I need about how effective the conspiracy is and how brainwashed you all truly are.
All the inept attempts to paint the glaring stupidity of naming PBI as DJT are missing one basic point: none of the other named airports were named after someone who was still in office.
TDS is real. It affects some 33% of Americans, who, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, seem to believe that Donald Trump is a law-abiding, decent human being who is guiding our nation to run like a well-oiled machine and has brought peace to the Middle East and has lowered our grocery and gas prices by half.
Those people also believe, despite evidence to the contrary, that Donald J. Trump is not personally making any money from the airport that bears his name.
TDS is real.
I just wish I could get a TACO Bell franchise at DJT International
@Retired Gambler
You nailed it “The stock market is near an all time high and I’m making more than ever – that is all that really matters and anyone can benefit”. Thats how most “real” americans feel- all this inflation/ we can’t afford housing stuff is just liberal nothingburgers. The Saudi’s are making bank- and I am getting rich too! Anyone who is not making money should be deported to canada where they can be communists with the french.
The name of the Airport is great! Renaming the country “United States of Trump” would even be better. May be the Saudi’s would sponsor the name change? UST- that would piss Dem off..
@RealAmerican — Ignore everything else, because “the Dow is over 50,000 right now!” (Someone, February 2026).
@Magus Perde — Add a few ‘woke’ and ‘DEI’ to your 2x ‘TDS’ and you’d’ve really hit a home-run there, bucko.
@InLA — Don’t fly. Also, don’t walk, because mass murderers also ‘walked.’ That’s why we should crawl everywhere, instead.
(@Christian — Yes. That’s the actual issue, but we’re in a no-facts, no-reality zone here, so, keep that in mind…)
Reading through these post, I am on the same side of this discussion as Rob. The one thing I am confident of and will eventually come out is unlike “Retired Gambler says:” I am confident Trump will find a way to monetize this. I certainly hope when he is gone they change it back and history will show he is the worst person to ever hold this office.
I live halfway between PBI and FLL. PBI which it will always be to me is an infinitely better airport to fly in and out of. To boycott it would be cutting my nose to spite my face. Sometimes in life you have to be practical and be willing to get past the name and do what is easiest.
Thanks Mr.L I thought The Syndrome might have been cured.
American Airlines getting on the Trump Train! Fantastic!!!
@ Kevin. No, the Left never goes away. Not after the French Revolution. Not after the fall of the USSR.
I am a Floridian and livid that my seemingly one party state government is not able nor willing to address the needs and true concerns of the people of Florida but fell over themselves to re-name PBI.
Everything DJT touches dies, and my hope is when this corrupt grifter is out of office (can’t be too soon) that this airport will be un-named.
@Brad Coath — In the last decade especially, Florida really changed. From purple to red to redder than Texas. It’s as if all the crazies came down during the pandemic from everywhere else. Glad to no longer be there.