Is IATA a regulatory agency?

?While we serve the airline industry, we are not a regulatory body, and cannot intervene in service disputes or other commercial matters involving airlines or agents and their customers.



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IATA is governed by a General Meeting and an executive committee, known as the Board of Governors. The Board's work is supported by nine Advisory Councils.

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The IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR) manual is the global reference for shipping dangerous goods by air and the only standard recognized by airlines.

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IATA is the trade association for the world's airlines. It supports many areas of aviation activity and helps formulate industry policy on critical aviation issues.

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The IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations is a field manual version of the ICAO Technical Instructions. Written and edited by airline dangerous goods experts, the Dangerous Goods Regulations present the requirements for shipping dangerous goods by air in a user friendly, easy to interpret format.

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IATA is a trade association that represents its airlines around the world. Initially founded by 57 carriers, it now has some 300 member airlines from 120 countries. ICAO, on the other hand, is a specialized organization that is part of the United Nations with 193 members, with its headquarters in Montreal, Canada.

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IATA assigns a unique two-character code (Airline Designator Code) to all airlines – even the ones that aren't IATA members. It consists of 2 letters or a letter and a digit. For example, AA stands for American Airlines, KL for KLM, 7S for Ryan Air, etc.

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IATA has a complete range of services to enable travel agencies to thrive, whatever your size or business model: Simplify and improve your relationships with airlines, to better serve travel customers. Increase efficiency through streamlined operations, to keep costs down.

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Most importantly, IATA provides a powerful, unified and experienced voice that supports and promotes the interests of its members through:
  • International recognition and lobbying.
  • Targeting key industry priorities.
  • Driving industry change.
  • Reducing costs.
  • Communication campaigns.
  • Training and other services.


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IATA Objectives Promote the development and growth of international air transportation. Promote and guarantee collaboration between the different international air transport companies. Strengthen safety within all areas of air transportation. Creation of international air traffic rules and regulations.

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IATA defines the world into 3 areas (IATA area 1/2/3), and defines the IATA area into small areas (IATA Tariff sub-area). North America / South America / Hawaii etc. South America (Brazil, Chile, Peru etc.) Europe / Middle East etc.

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IATA Members ?From 57 founding members in 1945, IATA now represents some 300 airlines in over 120 countries. Carrying 83% of the world's air traffic, IATA members include the world's leading passenger and cargo airlines.

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As IATA airlines are somewhat stricter in their requirements than the ICAO Technical Instructions, the DGR specifies more precisely how to prepare a shipment.

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The ICAO airport codes, also known as location indicators, are the four-letter sequences used by pilots and air traffic controllers in their charts, on-board systems and in communications.

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As such, pilots, dispatchers, and air traffic controllers work primarily in the ICAO airport code scheme.

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