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A baggage tag for a flight heading to Oral Ak Zhol Airport, whose IATA airport code is "URA". An IATA airport code, also known as an IATA location identifier, IATA station code, or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter geocode designating many airports and metropolitan areas around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). [1]
IATA time zone is a country or a part of a country, where local time is the same. IATA time zone code is constructed of 2–4 characters (letters and digits) as follows: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code is always used as first and second characters of time zone code. If country is not divided into separate time zones – no more characters added.
IATA – The airport code assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Those that do not match the FAA code are shown in bold. ICAO – The location indicator assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). AIRPORT – The official airport name. ROLE – One of four FAA airport categories.
"United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations". UN/LOCODE 2011-2. UNECE. 28 February 2012. - includes IATA codes "ICAO Location Indicators by State" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. 17 September 2010.
Former name: Atlantic Air Transport; former IATA codes: 7M, DG, transferred to Atlantic Flight Training in 2014. QB AAJ Air Alma: AIR ALMA Canada Ceased operations 10/01/2002; former IATA code: 4L ACS Air Cess: Liberia defunct ADT Air Dorval: AIR DORVAL Canada defunct AHN Air Hungaria: AIR HUNGARIA Hungary AHR Air Adriatic: ADRIATIC Croatia ...
Some small airports with scheduled flights have no IATA code, only this code and perhaps an ICAO code. Unlike the IATA codes, they changed when renaming some cities of the former USSR in the 1990s, e.g. Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), which was ЛЕД and became СПТ. As of 2009, about 3,000 code combinations of internal code are in use.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA / aɪ ˈ ɑː t ə /) is a trade association of the world's airlines founded in 1945. [4] IATA has been described as a cartel since, in addition to setting technical standards for airlines, IATA also organized tariff conferences that served as a forum for price fixing.
The IATA codes were originally based on the ICAO designators which were issued in 1947 as two-letter airline identification codes (see the section below). IATA expanded the two-character-system with codes consisting of a letter and a digit (or vice versa) e.g. EasyJet's U2 after ICAO had introduced its current three-letter-system in 1982. Until ...