INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION (IATA)
1. International Air Transport Association is a non-Government Organization that draws its legal existence from a special Act of the Canadian Parliament, given Royal Assent in Dec. 1945. It is the world trade organization of scheduled airlines whose membership is more than 250. The IATA Organization is voluntary, non-exclusive and non-political. Membership automatically opens to any operating company, which has been licensed to provide scheduled air services by a Government eligible for membership in ICAO. Airlines engaged directly in international operations are active members while domestic airlines are Associate members.
2. The Association has two main offices one in Montreal and the other in Geneva. Regional offices are maintained in Amman, Bangkok, Dakar, London, Miami, Nairobi, New York, Riode-Janeiro, Santiago, Singapore, and Washington-DC.
3. The aims of the IATA include:
(a) To promote safe, regular and economical air transport for the benefit of the people of the world, to foster air commerce and to study and solve the problems connected therewith.
(b) To provide a forum for discussion and consultation on the industry's problems among member air carriers or with other market participants, authorities and institutions.
(c) To represent an association of air carriers which is committed to the principle of competition and free trade in air transportation.
4. The organization is organized to serve three distinct types of activities:
(a) Core functions such as industry spokesmanship and maintaining close contacts with Governments and other authorities on behalf of all members.
(b) Industry co-ordination activities such as tariffs, schedule, passenger and cargo services.
(c) Self-financing services such as publications, financial services, agency program and symposia.
5. Tariff Co-ordination IATA provides a forum for airlines to develop fares and rates proposals for submission to the Governments. Because of the time consuming complexity of negotiation fares and rates in a series of bilateral discussions with other countries, most nations instruct their carriers to take part in the multilateral IATA sessions. Proposals coming from the sessions are studied by the Government and then approved, modified or even refused. Governments decide fares: IATA is the airfares negotiating forum.
6. There is an increasing tendency for some Governments to abrogate their powers on oversight of air tariffs provided the tariffs will fall within a pre-set range. This is currently true of European Union countries. With completion of internal market, a system of "double disapproval" is scheduled to operate.
7. For the purposes of developing tariff, a number of passenger tariff co-ordination conferences
are held. Similar Co-ordination conferences are also held for cargo tariffs.1. International Air Transport Association is a non-Government Organization that draws its legal existence from a special Act of the Canadian Parliament, given Royal Assent in Dec. 1945. It is the world trade organization of scheduled airlines whose membership is more than 250. The IATA Organization is voluntary, non-exclusive and non-political. Membership automatically opens to any operating company, which has been licensed to provide scheduled air services by a Government eligible for membership in ICAO. Airlines engaged directly in international operations are active members while domestic airlines are Associate members.
2. The Association has two main offices one in Montreal and the other in Geneva. Regional offices are maintained in Amman, Bangkok, Dakar, London, Miami, Nairobi, New York, Riode-Janeiro, Santiago, Singapore, and Washington-DC.
3. The aims of the IATA include:
(a) To promote safe, regular and economical air transport for the benefit of the people of the world, to foster air commerce and to study and solve the problems connected therewith.
(b) To provide a forum for discussion and consultation on the industry's problems among member air carriers or with other market participants, authorities and institutions.
(c) To represent an association of air carriers which is committed to the principle of competition and free trade in air transportation.
4. The organization is organized to serve three distinct types of activities:
(a) Core functions such as industry spokesmanship and maintaining close contacts with Governments and other authorities on behalf of all members.
(b) Industry co-ordination activities such as tariffs, schedule, passenger and cargo services.
(c) Self-financing services such as publications, financial services, agency program and symposia.
5. Tariff Co-ordination IATA provides a forum for airlines to develop fares and rates proposals for submission to the Governments. Because of the time consuming complexity of negotiation fares and rates in a series of bilateral discussions with other countries, most nations instruct their carriers to take part in the multilateral IATA sessions. Proposals coming from the sessions are studied by the Government and then approved, modified or even refused. Governments decide fares: IATA is the airfares negotiating forum.
6. There is an increasing tendency for some Governments to abrogate their powers on oversight of air tariffs provided the tariffs will fall within a pre-set range. This is currently true of European Union countries. With completion of internal market, a system of "double disapproval" is scheduled to operate.
7. For the purposes of developing tariff, a number of passenger tariff co-ordination conferences
are held. Similar Co-ordination conferences are also held for cargo tariffs.
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