According to the International Air Transport Association, this is because upper-class passengers, although a small minority among international air travelers, account for almost a third of airline revenues.
The trade group International Air Transport Association does its own safety audits on air carriers.
The International Air Transport Association, or IATA, Friday said it is monitoring the outbreak of bird flu.
And the Geneva-based International Air Transport Association said it was opposed to the blanket use of armed marshals.
First- and business-class air traffic fell 1% from July 2007 to July 2008, according to the International Air Transport Association.
According to International Air Transport Association more than 10 million passengers were affected when more than 100, 000 flights were cancelled.
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.
Asia Pacific is the biggest and one of the fastest-growing air-travel markets in the world, according to the International Air Transport Association.
But the international air transport association, IATA, has warned that global airline profits will halve this year because of rising oil prices.
The International Air Transport Association estimated that about 7% of Japan's GDP was meant to come from tourism and travel this year.
Air travel in Africa is up 9.8% this year, outpacing global growth of 6.8%, according to the International Air Transport Association trade group.
It has fired off letters to the International Air Transport Association de-manding that the body instruct members not to grant Balkh landing rights.
Demand for first class and business class typically follows business confidence, according to the International Air Transport Association, which publishes a monthly premium traffic report.
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Airline stocks were reeling Monday, following a report from the International Air Transport Association reporting August passenger traffic slowed and offering a grim near-term forecast.
This uncertainty has led the International Air Transport Association to plead on behalf of its members for Europe's government to rethink policy on shutting airspace.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has criticised European governments' response.
According to data from the International Air Transport Association, the chance of a commercial Western-built aircraft having an accident last year was one in three million.
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.
"A recent passenger survey from the International Air Transport Association showed that 81% of travelers are interested in tracking their bags in real time, " explains CEO Harry Steck.
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On April 9th, the International Air Transport Association said that the SARS outbreak could have a significantly worse impact on the airline industry than the war in Iraq.
"A lot of existing airports designed for smaller Chinese and Russian aircraft are now being upgraded for larger planes, " says Pierre Jeanniot, director-general of the International Air Transport Association.
Big and small players participate in organizations like Airlines for America and the International Air Transport Association where they collaborate about their fleets and procedures in order to keep things safer.
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The International Air Transport Association, a worldwide travel industry group, is working on measures that will allow passengers to get their boarding passes using fingerprint or retinal scans and then pass through the checkpoint.
Reported instances of unruly passengers rose internationally about 29% between 2009 and 2010, following an estimated 27% rise between 2008 and 2009, according to the International Air Transport Association, which represents about 240 airlines worldwide.
In 2010, the International Air Transport Association asked the U.N. body representing the world's aviation regulators to take a look at management of unruly passengers in light of evidence that most rarely face official action.
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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This year, they have experienced one major crash per three million flights worldwide, roughly 49% better than in 2010 and roughly three times better than 2001, according to the International Air Transport Association, a global trade group.
Tony Tyler, head of the International Air Transport Association, also used a speech in Delhi Tuesday to call for more cooperation between government and the industry to leverage the Indian market's potential, noting that domestic passenger traffic actually dropped last year.
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