World Air Transport Body

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  World's Air Travel Edges Back To Pre-Covid Levels

  Air travel took another major leap in 2023 rising to 94 percent of 2019 levels as it recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic, the main global airline body said Wednesday.

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  Global Airline Body Says Covid 'Travel Pass' App To Go Live In Weeks

  The head of global airline body International Air Transport Association said on Thursday a digital travel pass for COVID-19 test results and vaccine certifications would go live in the coming weeks following a testing phase.

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  International Aviation Body Issues Guidelines To Test Fliers For Coronavirus

  The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released criteria for the use of COVID-19 testing in the travel process.

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  Airlines To Lose $84 Billion This Year Due To Pandemic: Aviation Body

  Airlines are set to lose $84 billion as the coronavirus pandemic reduces revenue by half to mark the worst year in the sector's history, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) forecast on Tuesday.

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  25 Million Jobs At Risk Due To Travel Restrictions: Aviation Body

  The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released a new analysis showing that some 25 million jobs are at risk of disappearing with plummeting demand for air travel amid the COVID-19 crisis.

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  Carbon Emissions Per Passenger Cut By Over Half Since 1990: Airlines Body

  The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has published information confirming that carbon emissions per passenger have declined by more than 50 per cent since 1990.

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  Focus On Growing Cyber Threats To Aviation: IATA

  The recent hacking of Air India's frequent flyer programme miles has brought to focus the cyber threats to the aviation industry which depends substantially on sharing of information over the Internet.

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  Crashed Indonesian Plane Found 'Destroyed', No Survivors

  A plane that went down in eastern Indonesia two days ago was found "completely destroyed" and all 54 people on board dead, officials said, after rescuers finally reached the remote crash site Tuesday.

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  Air Travel "Safer" in 2014 Despite Malaysian Disasters

  Last year was by some measures the safest in the history of commercial aviation, despite two high-profile crashes involving Malaysia Airlines aircraft in which hundreds of people were killed, a leading industry body said today.

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  Aviation Sector Value Not Well Understood by Governments: Global Airlines Body

  Governments across the world have gained "substantially" from the airline industry, earning an estimated $121 billion in tax revenues this year alone, but the aviation sector's importance is "not well understood" by many of them, the International Air Transport Association has said.

• Most international airports state-owned: airline body

  As the government proceeds with privatisation of six airports, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has noted that most airports across the world are state-owned and aviation policy makers should take decisions in this regard keeping in view interests of airlines and passengers.

• United Nations faces uphill battle to reduce global airline emissions

  Little progress has been made in a United Nations' effort to craft an agreement to lower greenhouse gas emissions from international air travel, raising doubts that its civil aviation body can deliver a final resolution by a September target date, several government officials said on Monday.

• Delhi airport to be world's most expensive: Industry body

  Delhi airport will become the world's most expensive, with its operator GMR Infra permitted to raise charge.