IATA codes are abbreviations that the

International Air Transport Association The International Air Transport Association (IATA ) is an airline trade association founded in 1945. IATA has been described as a cartel since, in addition to setting technical standards for airlines, IATA also organized tariff conferences tha ...

(IATA) publishes to facilitate

air travel Air travel is a form of travel in vehicles such as airplanes, jet aircraft, helicopters, hot air balloons, blimps, Glider (aircraft), gliders, Hang gliding, hang gliders, parachuting, parachutes, or anything else that can sustain flight.

. They are typically 1, 2, 3, or 4 character combinations (referred to as unigrams, digrams, trigrams, or tetragrams, respectively) that uniquely identify locations, equipment, companies, and times to standardize international flight operations. All codes within each group follow a pattern (same number of characters, and using either all letters or letter/digit combinations) to reduce the potential for error.

Airport codes

IATA airport code An IATA airport code, also known as an IATA location identifier, IATA station code, or simply a location identifier, is a unique three-letter geocode designating many airports, cities (with one or more airports) and metropolitan areas (citie ...

s are trigram letter designations for

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial Aviation, air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surf ...

s, like "ORY" ( Paris-Orly Airport), "CPT" (

Cape Town International Airport Cape Town International Airport is the primary international airport serving the city of Cape Town, and is the List of South African airports by passenger movements, second-busiest airport in South Africa and List of busiest airports in Afric ...

), OTP ( Otopeni International Airport) and "BCN" ( Barcelona-El Prat).

Airline designators

IATA airline designators are digram letter/digit codes for

airline An airline is a company that provides civil aviation, air transport services for traveling passengers or freight (cargo). Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or Airline alliance, alliances with other airlines ...

companies, like "M6" (

Amerijet Amerijet International Airlines, Inc. is an American cargo airline headquartered in Miami, United States. The airline delivers air freight with its fleet of Boeing 767s from its main hub at the Miami International Airport to 48 destinations throu ...

), "NH" (

All Nippon Airways (ANA) is a Japanese airline headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. ANA operates services to both domestic and international destinations and is Japan's largest airline, ahead of its main rival flag carrier Japan Airlines. the airline has approximate ...

), and "4A" (

Air Kiribati Air Kiribati (pronounced ) is the flag carrier of the Republic of Kiribati and operates scheduled passenger services to 20 atolls spread over an area of . It is headquartered at Bonriki International Airport on the island of Tarawa in the ...

Aircraft type designators

IATA aircraft type designators are trigram letter/digit codes used for

aircraft An aircraft ( aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to flight, fly by gaining support from the Atmosphere of Earth, air. It counters the force of gravity by using either Buoyancy, static lift or the Lift (force), dynamic lift of an airfoil, or, i ...

models, like "J41" ( British Aerospace Jetstream 41) and "744" ( Boeing 747-400).

Country codes

Digram letter codes are used for

countries A country is a distinct part of the Earth, world, such as a state (polity), state, nation, or other polity, political entity. When referring to a specific polity, the term "country" may refer to a sovereign state, List of states with limited r ...

as specified in

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), to represent countries, dependent territories, and special ...

. One additional code is used: * code XU is used to specify part of

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

east of (but not including) the

Ural Mountains The Ural Mountains ( ),; , ; , or simply the Urals, are a mountain range in Eurasia that runs north–south mostly through Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural (river), Ural and northwestern Kazakhstan.

Currency codes

Trigram letter codes are used for

currencies A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or currency in circulation, circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins. A more general definition is that a currency is a ''system of money'' in common use wi ...

as specified in

ISO 4217 ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines alpha codes and numeric codes for the representation of currencies and provides information about the relationships between individ ...

IATA time zone codes

IATA time zone is a

country A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity. When referring to a specific polity, the term "country" may refer to a sovereign state, state with limited recognition, constituent 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: *

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. Just 2 characters used. * If country is divided into time zones – 3rd character of time zone code is a digit – number of time zone in country. ''Note:''

is divided into 11 time zones, so number of time zone in country is specified by 2 digits – RU01, RU02, ... RU11. * If some territories have the same local time, but different rules on

daylight saving time Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight savings time, daylight time (Daylight saving time in the United States, United States and Daylight saving time in Canada, Canada), or summer time (British Summer Time, United Kingdom, ...

– a letter can be added as 4th character to make unique codes for all such territories. ''Example'': Time zone code AU2 is used for

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

n states

New South Wales New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...

and Victoria (local time is UTC + 10 hours, DST begins at end of October). Time zone code AU2A is used for

Tasmania Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...

(local time is UTC + 10 hours, DST begins at end of September). Time zone code AU2B is used for

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

(local time is UTC + 10 hours, no DST).

IATA region codes

IATA region codes trigram letters codes used to specify large territories, consisting of several countries. Following codes are used: * AFR -

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

* CAR -

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere, located south of the Gulf of Mexico and southwest of the Sargasso Sea. It is bounded by the Greater Antilles to the north from Cuba ...

countries * CEM -

Central America Central America is a subregion of North America. Its political boundaries are defined as bordering Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. Central America is usually ...

* EUR -

Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east ...

* TC1 - IATA American Traffic Conference (includes NOA, CEM, SOA and CAR) * TC3 - IATA Asian Traffic Conference (includes JAK, SAS, SEA, SWP) * TC2 - IATA European and African Traffic Conference (includes AFR, EUR, MDE) * JAK -

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

and

Korea Korea is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and smaller islands. Since the end of World War II in 1945, it has been politically Division of Korea, divided at or near the 38th parallel north, 3 ...

* MDE -

Middle East The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage by the United Kingdom and western Eur ...

* NOA -

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South Ameri ...

* SCH -

Schengen agreement The Schengen Agreement ( , ) is a treaty which led to the creation of Europe's Schengen Area, in which internal border checks have largely been abolished. It was signed on 14 June 1985, near the town of Schengen, Luxembourg, by five of the t ...

countries * SOA -

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...

* SAS -

South Asia South Asia is the southern Subregion#Asia, subregion of Asia that is defined in both geographical and Ethnicity, ethnic-Culture, cultural terms. South Asia, with a population of 2.04 billion, contains a quarter (25%) of the world's populatio ...

* SEA - South-Eastern Asia * SWP - South-West

Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the cont ...

Speaking on region codes and countries, country code RU is used to specify part of

west from (and including of)

and country code XU is used to specify part of

east from (and not including of)

. Country RU is in EUR region, country XU is in SEA region. For all other purposes only country code RU is used to specify all the territory of Russia. Country code AQ is used to specify

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...

. Country AQ is not in any of regions listed here.

IATA meal codes

IAT
Cabin Operations Safety Best Practices Guide - 19.7 Special Meals
defines the following standard meal codes: * AVML - Asian Vegetarian Meal * BBML - Baby Meal * BLML - Bland Meal * CHML - Child Meal * DBML - Diabetic Meal * FPML - Fruit Platter Meal * GFML - Gluten Intolerant Meal * HNML - Hindu Meal * KSML - Kosher Meal * LCML - Low-Calorie Meal * LSML - Low Sodium Meal * MOML - Muslim Meal * NLML - Non-Lactose Meal * RVML - Raw Vegetarian Meal * LFML - Low Fat Meal * SFML - Seafood Meal * VGML - Vegan Meal * VJML - Vegetarian Jain Meal * VLML - Vegetarian Lacto-ovo Meal * VOML - Vegetarian Oriental Meal Codes used by other airlines include: * ALML - Allergen Meal * CLML - Celebration Cake Meal * HFML - High Fibre Meal * OBML - Japanese Obento Meal (on

United Airlines United Airlines, Inc. is a Major airlines of the United States, major airline in the United States headquartered in Chicago, Chicago, Illinois that operates an extensive domestic and international route network across the United States and six ...

) * JPML - Japanese Meal (on

Japan Airlines Japan Airlines (JAL) is the flag carrier airline of Japan. JAL is headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Its main hubs are Tokyo's Narita International Airport, Narita and Haneda Airport, Haneda airports, as well as secondary hubs in Osaka's Kansai ...

) * JNML - Junior Meal * KSMLS - Kosher Meal (Snack) * NBML - No Beef Meal (on

China Airlines China Airlines (CAL; zh, t=中華航空, poj=Tiong-hôa Hâng-khong, p=Zhōnghuá Hángkōng, first=t, c=, s=) is the state-owned flag carrier of the Taiwan, Republic of China (Taiwan). It is one of Taiwan's two major airlines, along with E ...

) * NFML - No Fish Meal (on

Lufthansa Deutsche Lufthansa AG (), trading as the Lufthansa Group, is a German aviation group. Its major and founding subsidiary airline Lufthansa German Airlines, branded as Lufthansa, is the flag carrier of Germany. It ranks List of largest airlin ...

) * LPML - Low Protein Meal * PRML - Low Purin Meal * ORML - Oriental Meal * PFML - Peanut Free Meal * SPML - Special Meal, Specify Food

Name class codes

The trigram is composed of the first letter of first name and the first two letters of the names (ISO 9625)

IATA class codes

IATA class codes are 1-letter codes created to help airlines standardize conditions of travel on passenger tickets and other traffic documents.

IATA tax codes

List of ticket and airport tax codes: * AB - Government Tax * AC - Value Added Tax * AE - Passenger Service Charge (International) * AF - Airport Departure Fee (Domestic/International) * AG - Ticket Tax * AH - Airport Tax * AI - Baggage Security Screening Fee * AJ - Airport Exit Tax (International) * AK - Airport Departure Tax (International) * AL - Passenger Service Charge (Domestic/International)

Notes

References

* IAT
Cabin Operations Safety Best Practices Guide - 19.7 Special Meals
* Airports and airline
IATA codes
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