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Qatar Airways and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that Qatar Airways will become the first airline in the Middle East to join the IATA Turbulence Aware platform.
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Floats were leaving the aircraft storage facilities to spend months at the warm, dry desert sunshine.
Airlines are slowly recovering: Which countries are bouncing back Read More »
Many people have questions about digital health passports and how they will play a role in travel.
Things we should know about IATA’s Travel Pass app Read More »
IATA has urged governments to quickly implement the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO’s) global guidelines for restoring air connectivity. Today, the ICAO Council approved Takeoff: Guidance for Air Travel through the COVID-19 Public Health Crisis (Takeoff). This is an authoritative and comprehensive framework of risk-based temporary measures for air transport operations during the COVID-19 crisis. “The
IATA (International Air Transport Association) supports the wearing of face coverings for passengers and masks for crew while onboard aircraft as a critical part of a layered approach to biosecurity to be implemented temporarily when people return to travelling by air. However, IATA does not support mandating social distancing measures that would leave ‘middle seats’
IATA dismisses “empty middle seat” as ‘ineffective’ Read More »
IATA has put pressure on governments around the wolrd to work with the industry on confidence-boosting measures in the face of an anticipated slow recovery in demand for air travel. IATA’s director general and CEO, said: “Passenger confidence will suffer a double whammy even after the pandemic is contained—hit by personal economic concerns in the
IATA: “Millions of jobs are at stake and relief cannot come fast enough” Read More »
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released new data which shows airlines may burn through USD 61 billion of their cash reserves during the second quarter ending 30 June 2020, while posting a quarterly net loss of USD39 billion. The analysis is based on the impact assessment IATA released last week, under a scenario
IATA president “We are looking at a devastating net loss of USD39 billion” Read More »
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has unveiled its latest global passenger results, covering all of 2019. With the findings indicating that demand during the period went up by 4.2% compared to the full year of 2018. The 2019 result is a slowdown compared to 2018’s annual growth of 7.3% and marked the first year
Despite weaker demand aviation still marks record load factor in 2019 Read More »
The world’s airlines experienced fewer accidents but a greater number of fatalities last year, compared with 2015. According to the latest data from IATA, the global accident rate was just 1.61 per million flights in 2016, an improvement from 1.79 in the previous year. In total there were 65 accidents (including 10 fatal accidents) with
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