International Airtransport Association

Summary of International Airtransport Association

A nongovernmental industry organization of the world's scheduled airlines. Commonly known as I ATA, the group effectively sets standards and, in many cases, fares for international airline services. Among the many airline activities in which IATA plays a leading role are conferences to establish procedures for cargo and baggage handling, passenger accommodations, reservations, and ticketing; tariff coordination conferences, at which fares and rates are set; and technical areas, including interline reservations and ticketing, finance, air law, training, and ant hijack measures. IATA was established in 1945 by an act of the Canadian Parliament; the organization succeeded a previous International Air Transport Association, which was founded at the Hague in 1919.

Each member airline is entitled to one vote at the annual general meeting; during the year, management is vested in the Executive Committee of elected airline chief executives. Day-to-day administration is performed by the nine-member Executive Board, headed by an executive director. IATA has two main offices, one each in Geneva and Montreal; other offices are located at Singapore, Buenos Aires, Washington, Bangkok, London, Nairobi, and Rio de Janeiro. Membership in the organization is open to any scheduled air carrier; international carriers are associate members.

Members of the International Air Transport As-sociation (including associate members designated by an asterisk [*]) in 1984 were as follows;

Aer Lingus Teoranta Aerolíneas Argentinas Aeronaves de Mexico (Aeromexico) Aerovías Nacionales de Colombia (Avianca) Air Afrique Air Algérie Air Botswana Air Gurundi Air Canada Air France Air Gabon Air Guinée Air India *Air Liberia Air Malawi Air Mali Air Malta Air Mauritius Air New Zealand Air Niugini Air Pacific *Air Queensland Air Tanzania Air T ungaru Air UK Air Vanuatu Air Zaire Air Zimbabwe

Alia Royal Jordanian Airlines Alitalia American Airlines *Ansett Airlines Ariana Afghan Airlines Austrian Airlines *Aviacion y Comercio (AVIACO))

British Airways British Caledonian Airways Cameroon Airlines Caribbean Air Cargo Company *Commercial Airways Compañía Mexicana de Aviación Continental Air Lines CP Air

Cruzeiro do Sul CSA Czechoslovakian Airlines Cubana (Empresa Consolidada Cubana de Aviación)

Cyprus Airways Deutsche Lufthansa *Douglas Airways Eastern Air Lines *Eastern Provincial Airways *East-West Airlines Ecuatoriana Eqyptair

El Al Israel Airlines Ethiopian Air Lines Finnair

Flying Tiger Line Garuda Indonesian Airways Ghana Airways

Gulf Air Iberia Icelandair Indian Airlines *IPEC Aviation Iran Air Iraqi Airways

Jamahiriya Libyan Airlines Japan Air Lines Jugoslovenski Aerotransport *Kendall Airlines Kenya Airways KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Kuwait Airways Lesotho Airways

LAM – Linhas Ae'reas de Moçambique

Linea Aérea del Cobre

LAN Chilean Airways

Lineas Aéreas Costarricenses (LACSA)

Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano LOT Polish Airlines Malev Hungarian Airlines *Mid Pacific Airlines Middle East Airlines – Air Lebanon *Mount Cook Airlines *Namib Air Nigeria Airways Olympic Airways Pakistan International Airlines Pan American Philippine Airlines Polynesian Airlines

Primeras Lineas Uruguayas de Navegación Aerea Qantas Airways *Quebecair Royal Air Maroc Royal Swazi National Airways Sabena Belgirlines Saudi Arabian Airlines Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS)

Sierra Leone Airlines Solomon Islands Airways Somali Airlines South African Airways *South American and Far East Air Transport Sudan Airways Swissair Syrian Arab Airlines TA AG Angola Airlines *Talair Tap Portuguese Airlines Tower Air *Trans-Australia Airlines *Trans-Brasil Airlines *Trans-Jamaican Airlines Trans-Mediterranean Airways Trans World Airways Trinidad and Tobago Airways (BWIA)

T unis Air Turkish Airlines

Union des Transports Aériens (UTA)

United Airlines VARIG Brazilian Airlines *Vayudoot

*Viagao Aérea Sao Paulo (VASP)

Viasa Venezuelan Airlines Yemenia Airways Zambia Airways

(Main Author: William J. Miller)