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. Airlines have been granted a special exemption to consult prices with each other through this body. 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.

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.

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. The main objectives were to assist the airline companies to achieve lawful competition and uniformity in prices.

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:

  1. 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.
  2. To supply all the means necessary for the cooperation of the airline companies that directly or indirectly serve the international air transports.
  3. To cooperate with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

IATA assigns 3-letter IATA Airport Codes and 2-letter IATA Airline Designators, which are commonly used worldwide. ICAO also assigns airport and airline codes.

For better fare calculations IATA has divided the world in three regions:

  1. South and North America.
  2. Europe, Middle East and Africa. IATA Europe includes the geographical Europe and the countries Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
  3. Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the islands of the Pacific Ocean.


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