Travel and Tourism Notes

IATA GLOBAL INDECATOTORS 1. AT (Atlantic ) between Area 1 and Area 2/Area 3 via the Atlantic (other than SA)     2. AP Atlantic Pacific) between Area 2 and Area 3 via the Atlantic and the Pacific 3. EH (Eastern Hemisphere) between Area 2 and Area 3 via Eastern Hemisphere (other than FE/RU/TS). Within Area 2 or within Area 3 4. FE (Far East ) between Russia (in Europe)/Ukraine and Area 3 with nonstop service between Russia (in Europe)/Ukraine and Area 3 other than Japan/Korea                                                                               ...

   THE FOUNDING OF IATA IATA was founded in Havana , Cuba , in April 1945 . It is the prime vehicle for  inter-airline cooperation in promoting safe, reliable, secure and economical  air services - for the benefit of the world's consumers. The international scheduled air transport industry is more than 100 times larger than it was in 1945. Few industries can match the dynamism of that growth, which  would have been much less spectacular without the standards, practices and procedures developed within IATA.        At its founding, IATA had 57 members from 31 nations, mostly in Europe and North America. Today it has some 265 members from 117 nations in every part of the globe. The modern IATA is the successor to the International Air Traffic Association founded in The Hague in 1919 - the year of the world’s first international scheduled services.   ...