Associations

News from Travel Technology Update: An advisory body to the European Commission on data protection and privacy has told IATA that its New Distribution Capability (NDC) project “raises a number of privacy and human rights concerns, in particular those related to the profiling of individuals.”...More

IATA airlines have strongly endorsed a resolution that calls for a single system for offsetting global aviation carbon emissions and provides governments with a set of principles for establishing that system....More

On its face, IATA Resolution 787 presents a simple idea: Since airlines want to get into merchandising and differentiation of their products, it would be best to create technical standards so they don’t all go off in different directions....More

Former IATA director general Giovanni Bisignani has labeled over-capacity as the air transport industry’s main problem, but he does not believe it will ever be resolved....More

IATA’s Operations Committee (OPC) has identified air traffic management (ATM) capacity and efficiency improvements as well as harmonizing safety regulation as priority areas for the association....More