The mayor of Warwick says an airport official asked him what he would think of proposed new names.

WARWICK, R.I. — If you could rename T.F. Green Airport, what would you pick?

Two to three weeks ago, that's the type of question that airport chief Iftikhar Ahmad asked Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian.

"He was just sounding me out to see what the city had to say," Avedisian told The Providence Journal on Saturday.

Now, Warwick mayors have long chafed that the airport is in their city, but is referred to as the Providence airport, even though it's not uncommon for airport's to be named for the largest city they serve, although they're located elsewhere.

So Avedisian gave a big thumbs down to one suggest new name: "Providence International Airport."

Avedisian prefers "Warwick International Airport," though he would settle for the more realistic "Rhode Island International Airport."

And what would happen to "T.F. Green," as in the former governor and U.S. senator, Theodore Francis Green?

Avedisian told The Journal that Ahmad had said the Rhode Island Airport Corporation, the state agency that runs the airport, would name something else at the airport after Green, who died in 1966.

Ahmad could not be reached immediately for comment.

Is this really going to happen?

"There have been some discussions about it," Avedisian said.

But any name change would require action by the General Assembly, and no legislation has been drafted, Avedisian said.

And that's just to change the name. Changing the airports official three-letter code, PVD, would require federal action, and many U.S. airports are still known by codes that long ago lost their connect to the airport's name.

Adding "International" to the airport's name may be an idea whose time has come, which several airlines adding flights to the Caribbean and Europe in recent years.