Airport Names

Where on earth is "Unique"?

Airport names sometimes carry only the name of the city they serve, sometimes the name of the village nearby, sometimes they proudly display the name of a local pioneer in aviation and sometimes they must do wilth phantasy names, such as Unique.

Let's take Kloten, the town near Zurich and former airport name. Unfortunatly "kloten" amounts to "copullating, in a rude kind of Dutch. Kloten had to go. So it became "Zurich Airport". Until some particularily misled marketers dicovered "Unique".
The word, of course, means "one of a kind". Unfortunately for the operator, it is:

• Often pronounced with a wrong accentuation: 'Unique instead of Un'ique.
  Accentuating the word on the first syllable makes it prone to confusion with another airport, Munich.

• As to living up to its name, Unique is not extraordinary at all, nothing to distinguish it from dozens of European airports.
  However, there is an airport only 60 nautical miles away by airways.
  It was formerly called "Blotzheim",then became "Basel-Mulhouse" and, finally the tri-national "Euro-Airport". This two-runwy, insturmented airport is truly unique in the world, being built by Switzerland on French soil. Serving passengers and freighi from the region of Basel, the Alsace and Freiburg.