IATA was formed on April 19, 1945 in Havana, Cuba
as an International trade association to represent, lead, and serve airline industry.
IATA headquarters 800 Place Victoria (rue Gauvin), Montreal, Canada
Membership - 240 airlines (2011).
IATA was formed on 19 April 1945, in Havana, Cuba.
It is the successor to the International Air Traffic Association, founded in The Hague in 1919.
1919 was also 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 about 243 members (as of April 2012) from more than 126 nations in every part of the world.
* 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 Rail&Fly systems, IATA also assigns IATA train station codes.
* For delay codes, IATA assigns IATA Delay Codes.
* IATA is pivotal in the worldwide accreditation of travel agents.
In the U.S., agents who wish to sell airline tickets must also achieve accreditation with the Airlines Reporting Corporation.
The IATA / IATAN ID Card is a globally recognized industry credential for travel professionals.
* IATA administrates worldwide the Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP) and Cargo Accounts Settlement Systems (CASS).
* IATA regulates the shipping of dangerous goods and publishes the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations manual (DGR) yearly.
* IATA coordinates the Scheduling process which governs the allocation and exchange of slots at congested airports worldwide.
* IATA maintains the Timatic database containing cross border passenger documentation requirements.
It is used by airlines to determine whether a passenger can be carried, as well as by airlines and travel a
gents to provide this information to travelers at the time of booking.
* IATA publishes standards for use in the airline industry.
* The Bar Coded Boarding Pass (BCBP) standard defines the 2-dimensional (2D) bar code printed on paper boarding passes or sent to mobiles phones as electronic boarding passes.
The Electronic Miscellaneous Document (EMD) defines a standard document to account airlines sales and track usage of charges.
* IATA publishes the IATA Rates of Exchange (IROE) four times per year, used with the Neutral Unit of Construction (NUC) fare currency-neutral construction system that superseded the older Fare Construction Unit (FCU) system in 1989.
In 2004, IATA launched Simplifying the Business - a set of five initiatives which it says will save the industry US$6.5 billion every year.
These projects are BCBP, IATA e-freight, CUSS (common use self-service), Baggage Improvement Programme (BIP) and the Fast Travel Programme.
In 2003, the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) was launched with the aim to serve as a standard and worldwide recognized certification of airlines' operational management.
The IOSA certification has now become a mandatory requisite for all IATA member airlines.
http://www.iata.org
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