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International Air Transport Association
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The '''International Air Transport Association''' is an international
trade organization of
airlines headquarted in
Montreal,
Quebec,
Canada.
IATA was formed just after World War II in
April 1945, in
Havana, Cuba. It is the successor to the
International Air Traffic Association, founded in
The Hague in 1919, the year of the world's first international scheduled services. At its founding, IATA had 57 Members from 31 nations, mostly in Europe and North America. Today it has over 270 Members from more than 140 nations in every part of the globe.
IATA's goals are:
#To promote safe, scheduled and inexpensive air transport for the benefit of all nations of the world, to help in the development of air commerce and to study all the problems that connect with the above.
#To supply all the means necessary for the cooperation of the airline companies that directly or indirectly serve the international air transports.
#To cooperate with the
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
They also regulate the shipping of
dangerous goods and publish the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations manual, a globally accepted field source reference for airlines shipping
hazardous materials.
IIATA assigns 3-letter
IATA Airport Codes and 2-letter
IATA Airline Designator IATA Airline Designators, which are commonly used worldwide. ICAO also assigns airport and airline codes. For
Rail&Fly-systems IATA also assigns
IATA-trainstationcodes.
IATA is pivotal in the worldwide accreditation of
travel agents (with exception of the
VS, where this is done by the [[Airlines Reporting Corporation](ARC)]) although for practical purposes this, and giving permission to sell airline tickets from the participating carriers, is achieved through national member organisations.
The main objective of the organisation is to assist airline companies to achieve lawful competition and uniformity in prices. For fare calculations IATA has divided the world in three regions:
#South and North America.
#Europe, Middle East and Africa. IATA Europe includes the geographical Europe and the countries Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
#Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the islands of the Pacific Ocean.
To this end, airlines have been granted a special exemption by each of the main regulatory authorities in the world to consult prices with each other through this body. However, the organization has been accused of acting as a
cartel, and many
low cost carriers are not full IATA members. The
European Union's competition authorities are currently investigating the body. In
2005 Mrs.
Neelie Kroes, the
European Commissioner for Competition, made a proposal to lift the exception to consult prices.
See also
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IATAN
*
Air Transport Association ATA (Air Transport Association of America)
*
Flight planning
*
Kenneth Beaumont
*
Moving associations
External links
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International Air Transport Association web site
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