IATA (International Air Transport Association) South Africa is one of the most dynamic and fastest-changing industries in the world. Find info & contacts here:
The travel industry needs a responsive, forward-looking and universal trade association, operating at the highest professional standards. IATA is that association. Originally founded in 1919, IATA brings together approximately 280 airlines, including the world's largest. Flights by these airlines comprise more than 95 percent of all international scheduled air traffic.
Since these airlines face a rapidly changing world, they must cooperate in order to offer a seamless service of the highest possible standard to passengers and cargo shippers. Much of that cooperation is expressed through IATA, whose mission is to "represent and serve the airline industry".
Continual efforts by IATA ensure that people, freight and mail can move around the vast global airline network as easily as if they were on a single airline in a single country. In addition, IATA helps to ensure that members' aircrafts can operate safely, securely, efficiently and economically under clearly defined and understood rules.
For consumers, IATA simplifies the travel and shipping process. By helping to control airline costs, IATA contributes to cheaper tickets and shipping costs. Thanks to airline cooperation through IATA, individual passengers can make one telephone call to reserve a ticket, pay in one currency and then use the ticket on several airlines in several countries – or even return it for a cash refund.
IATA is also a collective link between third parties and the airlines. Passenger and cargo agents are able to make representations to the industry through IATA and derive the benefit of neutrally applied agency service standards and levels of professional skill. Equipment manufacturers and third-party service providers are able to join in the airline meetings which define the way air transport goes about its business.
IATA allows airlines to operate more efficiently. It offers joint means – beyond the resources of any single company – of exploiting opportunities, reducing costs and solving problems. Airlines knit their individual networks into a world-wide system through IATA, despite differences in language, currencies, laws and national customs.
IATA is a useful means for governments to work with airlines and draw on their experience and expertise. Working standards within the aviation industry are developed within IATA. In fostering safe and efficient air transport, IATA serves the stated policies of most of the world's governments
IATAN Headquarters
300 Garden City Plaza, Suite 342
Garden City
New York - 11530-3302
NY - USA
Phone: +1 516 747 4716
Fax: + 1 516 747 4462
United Kingdom
IATA London Office
Central House
Lampton Road
Hounslow - TW3 1HY
Middlesex - United Kingdom
Phone: +44 20 8607 6200
Fax: +44 20 8607 6350
Germany
IATA Germany
Poststrasse 2-4
Frankfurt-am-Main -
Phone: +49 69 242 536 0
Fax: +49 69 25 19 50
Australia
IATA Australia
83 York Street, Level 4
PO Box 3563 GPO
Sydney - 2001 NSW
Phone: +61 2 9249 6866
Fax: +61 2 9261 2772
Japan
IATA Japan
4th Floor, Aviation Building
18-1 Shinbashi 1-Chome, Minato-ku
Tokyo - 105-0004
Phone: +81 3 3595 1878
Fax: +81 3 3597 0633
China
IATA Hong Kong SAR
2nd Floor, 80 Gloucester Road
Wanchai
Hong Kong (SAR) -
Phone: +852 2528 9151
Fax: +852 2520 0329
South Africa
IATA Southern Africa
First Floor, Office Block 1, Riviera Office Park
Crnr Oxford & North Roads, Riviera 2192
PO Box 1177
Houghton - 2041
JNB - South Africa
Phone: +27 11 486 1385
Fax: +27 11 486 0870
