IATA members have endorsed two initiatives by the association, one that provides a set of passenger rights guidelines for governments and another supporting a new distribution standard....More
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
ICAO has signed a new agreement with Canada to keep the organization headquartered in Montreal, ending speculation that it might relocate to Qatar....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
Governments must put more political will into sorting out air traffic management mega-projects and also addressing the political issue of finding a global agreement for emission market-based-measures (MBMs), the head of IATA said Monday....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
Airbus kicked off its week at the Paris Air Show still making no comment about whether or not the A350 XWB would do a flypast, but announcing a batch of new aircraft sales totaling more than $23 billion at list prices and including a firm order for 20 A380s....More
Embraer kicked off the Paris Air Show with the launch of its second-generation E-Jet, the E2, and secured a firm order from SkyWest Inc. for 100 E-175-E2 aircraft....More
The Lufthansa Group has firmed up a previous supervisory board decision to acquire 100 A320 family aircraft, comprising 35 A320neo, 35 A321neo and 30 A320ceo with sharklets....More
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