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Los Angeles is adding "LA" to the names of underused airports it owns in two distant cities in a marketing ploy to relieve passenger strains at aging Los Angeles International Airport. The Southern California cities of Ontario and Palmdale, swallowing their civic pride, are endorsing the name changes. Ontario International Airport, 40 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, is now LA/Ontario International. And the airport in Palmdale, 60 miles northeast of the city, is LA/Palmdale Regional Airport. Other airports that have annexed the names of more-renowned places include the Manchester, N.H., airport, which became Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. Buffalo International Airport made it planer to tourists that it's near Niagara Falls by dubbing itself Buffalo Niagara International Airport. (Page 4A, USA Today)