The figure represents the industry's best performance since IATA began collecting crash records in the 1940s.
The International Air Transport Association, or IATA, Friday said it is monitoring the outbreak of bird flu.
An IATA programme known as e-freight aims to do for cargo what e-tickets have done for passengers.
The present cuts in capacity and job layoffs may not be enough, according to IATA's director general, Pierre Jeanniot.
"(Airlines) who are IATA member carriers actually have a far better safety rate than the industry standard, " Voss said.
According to the IATA (International Air Transport Association) 2013 is expected to be another profitless year for the European airline industry.
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Tony Concil, a spokesman for the International Air Transport Association (IATA) admits that implementing this global standard will not be easy.
The trial is part of a wider initiative instigated by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) known as Simplifying Passenger Travel.
But the international air transport association, IATA, has warned that global airline profits will halve this year because of rising oil prices.
"We might issue a formal statement next week but at the moment we are following the WHO guidelines, " an IATA spokeswoman said.
IATA's initiative is to introduce standards, to ensure interoperability, promote adoption, and make the benefits of these technologies available to the whole industry.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has criticised European governments' response.
IATA'S economics director, Peter Morris, admits that these are mere guesses.
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The International Air Transport Association ( IATA) last year set itself a long-term, yet ambitious, goal to build a zero emissions aircraft in the next 50 years.
Tony Tyler, IATA's director general and CEO, argues that the industry is "balancing on a knife edge" with even the sturdiest and more established airlines feeling the pressure.
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The issue of disruptive passengers and how to deal with them poses a serious problem to the industry, according to IATA, the trade association representing the industry worldwide.
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"We must move away from this blanket closure and find ways to flexibly open air space, step by step, " IATA head Giovanni Bisignani told a news briefing in Paris.
Giovanni Bisignani, the boss of IATA, a group that represents airlines, argues that the best airports are those with good managers and tough regulators, and that ownership matters less.
Giovanni Bisignani, the director- general of IATA, the airline industry's trade body, said that securing the supply chain was the first priority in ensuring that cargo was safe to carry.
IATA, which represents big airlines, forecasts that international air travel for the second half of this year could be down by 16%, while domestic American traffic could fall by 17.5%.
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At this year's IATA conference he sparked a lively debate with the view that the alliances were passed their sell by date because they couldn't address the competitive demands of today's market.
According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) jet engines today are 40 percent more fuel-efficient than those designed in the 1960s, with pollutants such as soot and sulphur now almost completely eliminated from jet exhaust.
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Although passenger volumes appear to have bottomed out and freight recently recorded a small increase, IATA's boss, Giovanni Bisignani, fears that the worst is yet to come and that once the summer holidays are over the crisis will intensify.
In particular aviation planners are focusing on ways of cutting the amount of time planes spend queuing to take off and land, in the process burning large and unnecessary amounts of fuel (IATA estimates that airlines could cut their annual CO2 emissions by 12 percent if air-traffic control operations were more efficient).
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