22 November 2001
NO: PS/15/01
New Benefits to holding the IATA
Card
Some important recent changes in the IATA agent identity card
programmes make them even more valuable as the industry standard for the
identification of bona fide travel agents
12 October, 2001
NO: 28
IATA Launches New Safety
Analysis System
IATA’s prime strategic objective is to
lead global airline efforts to achieve a continuous improvement in
safety. The Safety Trend Evaluation, Analysis and Data Exchange
System (STEADES) project is one of the most important safety
initiatives of IATA's Safety Strategy 2000+.
A Top Level Domain
for the World's Travel Industry
IATA has
taken an important and timely initiative to help improve the standards and
security of Internet trading - and to provide other important benefits for
the global travel industry and its customers around the world.
Airline
Industry Flies into the New Millennium without a Glitch
In a press conference at IATA
Montreal headquarters, Director General and CEO Pierre Jeanniot reported
that the air transport industry made a successful transition into the Year
2000 world-wide.
Good children from all over our Earth
were told a few years ago that Santa Claus ... would in future be relying
on the safe,
secure service provided by IATA Member airlines to deliver his
precious cargo of toys and other goodies to our little ones..
"In the hurly-burly of today’s bazaar of the
aviation commercial environment, it is too easy to forget that international
air transport is a world system..."
Hundreds of airports, including the major international
hubs, have reported that their Y2K programs are
complete and ready for the Millennium rollover.
Business Travelers Boost ‘e-Ticketing’
but CITE Delays
A 100 percent growth in the number of corporate travellers
sourcing flight information and making reservations via the Internet in
the past two years...
A new IATA program, based on
the U.S. FAA Indirect Air Carrier Standard Security Program will
require all CNS Cargo Agents to have at least one person, per cargo
processing facility, fully trained in the provisions of the IACSSP...
Passenger Forecast
1999-2003 The latest IATA passenger forecast indicates that
sentiment about traffic growth prospects among airlines and industry
forecasters is becoming more cautious than last year...
Duty Free is Dead - So
Airports Ask Airlines for Handout. "The
1 July end of duty free sales within the EU has prompted an unjustified
and unacceptable reaction by certain airports" said IATA Director
General Pierre J. Jeanniot ... |
