Amalgamation

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That made me want to remind myself what the airport is actually called. According to their website, they are the “Region of Waterloo International Airport”. So the airlines are wrong and should start calling the airport by its correct name. Did it used to be called “Kitchener”? I note that the YKF code appears to be based on “Kitchener”, although I don’t know where the “F” comes from.

 
The airlines call Toronto Toronto on their signs in airports all over the world, even though it is called Pearson International Airport by us.

That just proves my point, because the actual name of the airport is either “Toronto Pearson” or “Toronto Pearson International Airport”:

https://www.torontopearson.com/

I’m not sure if the “International Airport” is part of the name or just a description.

The equivalent for our airport would be calling it just “Waterloo”, although obviously mentioning the ON and CA bits is necessary. So I would call it “Waterloo ON” within Canada and something that mentions Canada and probably also Ontario outside of Canada.