{"id":49257,"date":"2025-06-03T17:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T11:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49257"},"modified":"2025-06-04T17:23:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:53:34","slug":"international-air-transport-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/international-air-transport-association\/","title":{"rendered":"International Air Transport Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>International Air Transport Association Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the Prime Minister of India addressed the International Air Transport Association&#8217;s (IATA) 81st Annual General Meeting (AGM) and the plenary session of World Air Transport Summit (WATS) at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<h2>About International Air Transport Association<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was founded in\u00a0<strong>Havana, Cuba, on 19 April 1945.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the prime vehicle for\u00a0<strong>inter-airline cooperation<\/strong>\u00a0in promoting safe, reliable, secure and economical air services &#8211; for the benefit of the world&#8217;s consumers.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Members:<\/strong>\u00a0At its founding, IATA had 57 members from 31 nations, mostly in Europe and North America. Today it has some\u00a0<strong>350 members<\/strong>\u00a0from 120 nations in every part of the globe.<\/li>\n<li>The modern IATA is the\u00a0<strong>successor to the International Air Traffic Association<\/strong>\u00a0founded in the Hague in 1919.<\/li>\n<li>The last AGM in India was held\u00a0<strong>42 years ago in 1983.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Head Office: Montreal, Canada.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Objectives of International Air Transport Association<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Promote the development and growth of international air transportation.<\/li>\n<li>Promote and guarantee collaboration between the different international air transport companies.<\/li>\n<li>Strengthen safety within all areas of air transportation.<\/li>\n<li>Creation of international air traffic rules and regulations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>International Air Transport Association FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the International Air Transport Association?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is the trade association for the world&#8217;s airlines, representing some 350 airlines over 80% of global air traffic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0Who was the first Indian to join IATA?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Spice Jet<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=2133351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Air Transport Association fosters global airline cooperation to ensure safe, reliable, secure, and economical air travel for consumers worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[678,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-international-air-transport-association","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}