International Air Transport Association, IATA

International Air Transport Association, IATA (eng. International Air Transport Association, abbr. IATA) international non-governmental organization. Headquartered in Montreal (Canada). European Centre - Geneva (Switzerland). IATA has 101 offices worldwide.

IATA was organized August 28, 1919 in The Hague (Netherlands) as the union of the airlines under the name International Air Traffic Association. Its purpose was to organize the safety, regularity and cost-effective air transportation of people and goods, as well as promoting cooperation of all involved in international air transport enterprises. The Association was organized after World War I ceased to exist due to the Second World War.

Successor to become established in April 1945 in Havana (Cuba) International Air Transport Association. By this time it had 57 members from 31 countries, mainly from Europe and North American.

On March 27, 2006 IATA members are 265 airlines, which carry 94% of all international flights.

The Association acts as a coordinator and representative of the interests of the air transport industry in areas such as safety, flight operations, tariff policy, maintenance, security, development of international standards in cooperation with ICAO and so on. D.

The most important activity is the organization IATA settlement between the subjects of the air transport system based on sales of transportation on a neutral form of tickets. More in 1948, started its activity Clearing House IATA (Eng. IATA Clearing House), which provides debts between airlines. And in 1972, the world was created neutral environment ticket sales BSP IATA, then cover the entire air transport world, except the United States (who first created their own system, ARC, later served as the basis for the BSP) and the CIS (except Moldova).

International Air Transport Association announced the full transition from the 2007 sale of the airline using electronic tickets.

IATA assigns codes airports, airlines and aircraft types for classification.

official site www.iata.org