TIL every in-flight Delta website loads a static .JSON file with every single airport code the company flies to

Perhaps a bit inefficient for a site that should load quickly on slower wifi?

Always fun to poke around these requests lol

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If the file is cached on CDN it could give pretty good performance, assuming the number isn't that high

Less maintenance than maintaining a database or a serverless function to access the data too