Airport Code - What Does It All Mean?

If you are traveling and see the letters Lax, you may automatically know that they are the airport code for the airport in Los Angeles, California. But, do you know what Cak stands for? The code letters given to airports throughout not only the United States but also throughout the world have a very specific purpose and are used not only for transportation but for protection issues as well.

Definition

A definition of the airport code: The three letters of the code serve as a "location identifier" that is recognized by airports, governments, and protection officials all over the world. Every airport has a dissimilar code that is unique to it.

Cedar Rapids

Actors: Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, Anne Heche
Director: Miguel Arteta
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Mpaa Rating: R

Cedar Rapids tells the story of a weekend in the life of Tim Lippe (Ed Helms), a small-town guarnatee salesman, who finds himself attending a discussion in the "big city" of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. When the star salesman of his company winds up dead as a follow of an accidental asphyxiation (more about that later), it's up to Tim to save the hereafter of Brownstar guarnatee by winning the "Two Diamonds" award. He's warned by his boss to avoid the terrible sway of Dean Ziegler (John C. Reilly) at all costs, and so naturally, they wind up sharing a room. The third roommate is Ronald Wilkes (Isiah Whitlock Jr.), who plays the right man to Ziegler's boorish drunk. And no setup would be perfect without a lady in the mix- in this case, Joan Ostrowski-Fox (Anne Heche), who uses these guarnatee conferences as an escape from the tedium of her daily life as a wife and mom of two. As she tells Tim, "What happens in Cedar Rapids, stays in Cedar Rapids."

Because this is first and prominent a character piece, most of the characters are drawn to the point of caricature. John C. Reilly's Dean Ziegler is crude and rude, manufacture inappropriate comments every time he opens his mouth- and for real contributing to the film's R rating. Joan is sassy and flirty, but manages to still seem like a devoted wife and mom even as she's clearly seeing to score. And as Tim Lippe bears more than a passing resemblance to Helms's character from The Office, if you're a fan of that show, you're probably going to like this movie. Like Andy, Tim is naïve, inexperienced to the point of ridiculousness, and an all-around-nice guy. Before the conference, he'd never been on a plane, had a drink, or (we assume) been with whatever other than his current and new girlfriend- who also happens to be his previous seventh grade educator (played by Sigourney Weaver). By the end of the movie, he's dealt with infidelity, disillusionment, and, as in any true coming-of-age-story, smoking crack.