International Air Transport Association (IATA)

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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is a trade association of the world’s airlines. These 250 airlines, primarily major carriers, carry approximately 84% of total Available Seat Kilometers air traffic. IATA supports airline activity and helps formulate industry policy and standards. It is headquartered in Montreal, Canada with Executive Offices in Geneva, Switzerland. Safety is the number one priority for IATA.

The main instrument for safety is the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) and its successor, Enhanced IOSA. IOSA has also been mandated at the state level by several countries. In 2012, aviation posted its safest year ever.

The global Western-built jet accident rate (measured in hull losses per million flights of Western-built jets) was 0.20, the equivalent of one accident every 5 million flights. Future improvements will be founded on data sharing with a database fed by a multitude of sources and housed by the Global Safety Information Center.

 In June 2014 the IATA set up a special panel to study measures to track aircraft in flight in real time. The move was in response to the disappearance without trace of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on 8 March 2014.

Contact Information

Montreal Head Office

800 Place Victoria
PO Box 113
Montreal - H4Z 1M1
Quebec - Canada

Tel: +1 514 874 0202
Fax: +1 514 874 9632

Geneva Executive Office

33, Route de l'Aeroport
PO Box 416
1215 Geneva - 15 Airport
Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 770 2525
Fax: +41 22 798 3553

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