IATA Strategic Partnerships covers some 29 areas of involvement, spanning virtually all aspects of airline operations, allowing for maximum flexibility in choice of both the area and level of participation.
Find out more about IATA's areas of involvement below and their respectives activities, meetings and benefits. Please note that the links below are in PDF format, easy to copy, print and distribute!
- 2D Bar-Code (pdf) activities focus on the development of the bar-coded standards on boarding pass, how to simplify the standard and keep only one format, allowing multiple segments, Matrix codes and others solutions enabling 2D bar code on mobile phones. Bar-Coded Boarding Passes (BCBP) is a Simplifying the Business (StB) initiative
- Aircraft Recovery (pdf) collects, distributes and shares information related to the recovery of damaged and disabled aircraft and promotes and develops awareness about programmes, procedures and practices concerning efficient and effective aircraft recovery
- Airport Development (pdf) focuses on master planning studies, passenger terminal planning and validation, cargo terminal planning and development, capacity studies, runway and apron layouts and airport traffic forecasts
- Automatic Identification Standards (pdf) covers all radio frequency identification (RFID) activities, to introduce this technology in Cargo, Passenger and In-flight segments of airlines and airport activities. RFID is an industry StB initiative that aims to bring cost savings to airline and airport logistic processes
- Cargo Services (pdf) establish industry standards relating to Cargo Services including cargo handling, documentation, cargo security, ULD control, ULD technical specifications, dangerous goods regulations, live animal and perishable regulations
- Cargo Standards (pdf) establishes industry standards related to the safe transport of live animals, perishables and dangerous goods
- Common Use Self Service (pdf) involves industry specifications for passenger check-in at Common Use Self Service (CUSS) kiosks, an StB initiative
- Engineering and Maintenance (pdf) includes global developments in engineering and maintenance, electronic documentation, aircraft performance, airworthiness and production performance measurements
- Environment (pdf) deals with monitoring and assessing environmental developments, polices and regulations, prepared and promoted industry positions and strategies among stakeholders and regulators
- Facilitation (pdf) provides technical information and government regulations on the harmonisation of globally recognised standards, machine-readable passports, Cargo facilitation, Advance Passenger Information (API), Passenger Name Records (PNR) and Advance Cargo Information (ACI)
- Financial Services (pdf) overlooks all financial matters connected with international air transport, IATA Clearing House and Currency Clearance Services, industry general accounting standards, taxation, user charges, and other cost issues
- Flight Operations (pdf) involves the issues affecting flight operations activities, consultancy and auditing, aircraft performance and global meteorological information
- Fuel Technical Group (pdf) represents global forum for those involved in the technical aspects of the supply and use of aviation fuel, reviews current problems, promotes standardisation, and recommends action
- Fuel Services (pdf) exchanges information on aviation jet fuel issues and specifications, fuel developments and activities in countries and locations around the globe, fuel facility charges and other fees, fuel quality standards and inspections and developments on fuel supply and facilities
- Industry Taxation (pdf) develops strategies and action plans to protect the interests of IATA Member airlines and the impact of taxation on airline economics and the tourism industry, monitors tax developments and actively promotes the maintenance of the worldwide regime of reciprocal exemption (as laid out in the ICAO policy document 8632)
- Inflight Services (pdf) includes areas such as cabin safety, health and security, crew management, catering operations and hiring and training of cabin crew, scheduling, operations and customer care
- Interline Tariffs (pdf) comprises global interline passenger fares, the development of international tariff standards, baggage, mileage and fare construction rules, currency codes, IATA rates of exchange, distribution of fares through GDS systems, the Internet and other intermediaries, pricing, revenue management, services, Fares & Ticketing training and Ticket Tax Box matters
- Loyalty (pdf) includes areas such as loyalty programme development and optimisation, new ancillary revenue sources, fraud prevention, cost realignment and restructuring, rewards strategy and management, alliance maximisation, and interface between airline CRMs and loyalty management systems.
- Meteorological (pdf) exchanges information on global meteorological conditions
- Passenger and Airport Services (pdf) includes areas like passenger and baggage handling, reservations electronic ticketing and electronic commerce such as ET, XML, ERSPs, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) baggage tags, Common Use Self Service (CUSS) kiosks, DCS/aircraft movement messages and the benchmarking of service delivery standards
- Ramp Services and Airside Safety (pdf) includes the use of ground support equipment, airport ground handling matters, training on ground support equipment, new products and services and future developments for ground support equipment and airside safety
- Regional Infrastructure (pdf) includes regional infrastructure development, ATC capacity, new air route development regulatory issues, RTCA and the AEEC, radio spectrum and the ITU, global harmonisation and the “One Sky…global ATM” strategy and campaign. IATA has privileged access to the ICAO Air Navigation Council and Commission and participates in most of the ICAO Panels
- Revenue Accounting (pdf) deals with interline settlement procedures, passenger and cargo invoicing, billing standards, taxation billing rules, passenger interline sample accounting and the Interline Data Exchange Centre (IDEC)
- Risk Management and Insurance (pdf) deals, in industry and governments, with the impact of major insurance issues such as coverage for terrorism risks – involving weapons of mass destruction. Provides assistance in implementing or enhancing Integrated Risk Management Systems and risk management and insurance training
- Safety (pdf) monitors aviation safety problems experienced and identified by airlines, develops strategies to continuously improve safety, identifies contributing factors in aviation accidents, reviews all aspects of human factors in aviation and analyses cabin operations safety trends
- Security (pdf) concerns the global mutual recognition of security measures, the passenger, baggage and freight security process including related throughput issues, aircraft protection (including counter-MANPADS efforts), Security Management Systems, developing countermeasures for new/emerging threats to civil aviation and managing industry responses to acts
- Special Cargoes - Please see Cargo Standards above
- StB Preferred Partner (pdf) category provides Strategic Partners with privileged business opportunities linked to the numerous industry Simplifying the Business (StB) projects: electronic ticketing (e-ticketing); Common User Self-Service kiosks (CUSS); Bar-Coded Boarding Pass (BCBP); Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), paperless cargo environment (e-freight), Baggage Management Improvement Programme (BIP) and Fast Travel
- Travel Partners (pdf) category is a special category especially for Railways and Ferries
- Unit Load Devices (pdf) develops ULD specifications, guidelines, recommendations and other technical material and maintains a central control over the interline movement of its members’ ULDs (IULDUG)
- World Air Transport Summit/Annual General Meeting (WATS/AGM) (pdf) is IATA’s annual exclusive industry forum, brings together the leaders of the world’s most powerful airlines, their alliance and business partners to debate the issues shaping the industry’s future and provides a unique opportunity to meet the presidents, chief executive officers and senior executives of these global airlines