IATA codes are abbreviations that the

International Air Transport Association The International Air Transport Association (IATA ) is a trade association of the world's airlines founded in 1945. IATA has been described as a cartel since, in addition to setting technical standards for airlines, IATA also organized tariff ...

(IATA) publishes to facilitate air travel. They are typically 1, 2, 3, or 4 character combinations (referred to as unigrams, digrams,

trigram Trigrams are a special case of the ''n''-gram, where ''n'' is 3. They are often used in natural language processing for performing statistical analysis of texts and in cryptography for control and use of ciphers and codes. Frequency Context ...

s, 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 three-character alphanumeric geocode designating many airports and metropolitan areas around the world, defined by the ...

s are trigram letter designations for

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

s, like "ORY" ( Paris-Orly Airport), "CPT" ( Cape Town International Airport), OTP ( Otopeni International Airport) and "BCN" ( Barcelona-El Prat).

Airline designators

IATA airline designator This is a list of airline codes. The table lists IATA's two-character airline designators, ICAO's three-character airline designators and the airline call signs (telephony designator). Historical assignments are also included.ht IATA airlin ...

s are digram letter/digit codes for

airline An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in wh ...

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 757s and Boeing 767s from its main hub at the Miami International Airport to 48 de ...

), "NH" (

All Nippon Airways , also known as ANA (''Ē-enu-ē'') or is an airline in Japan. Its headquarters are located in Shiodome City Center in the Shiodome area of Minato ward of Tokyo. It operates services to both domestic and international destinations and had m ...

), and "4A" ( Air Kiribati).

Aircraft type designators

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

aircraft An 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 by using the Lift (force), dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in ...

models, like "J41" (

British Aerospace Jetstream 41 The British Aerospace Jetstream 41 is a turboprop-powered feederliner and regional airliner, designed by British Aerospace as a stretched version of the popular Jetstream 31. Intended to compete directly with 30-seat aircraft like the Embra ...

) and "744" ( Boeing 747-400).

Country codes

Digram letter codes are used for

countries A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state (polity), state, nation, or other polity, political entity. It may be a sovereign state or make up one part of a larger state. For example, the country of Japan is an independent, so ...

as specified in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2. One additional code is used: * code XU is used to specify part of

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-ei ...

east of (but not including) the

Ural Mountains The Ural Mountains ( ; rus, Ура́льские го́ры, r=Uralskiye gory, p=ʊˈralʲskʲɪjə ˈɡorɨ; ba, Урал тауҙары) or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western ...

Currency codes

Trigram Trigrams are a special case of the ''n''-gram, where ''n'' is 3. They are often used in natural language processing for performing statistical analysis of texts and in cryptography for control and use of ciphers and codes. Frequency Context ...

letter codes are used for currencies 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 individual ...

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. It may be a sovereign state or make up one part of a larger state. For example, the country of Japan is an independent, sovereign state, whi ...

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. 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 or simply daylight time (United States, Canada, and Australia), and summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks (typicall ...

– 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 sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by ...

n states

New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es ...

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

Tasmania ) , nickname = , image_map = Tasmania in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Tasmania in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdi ...

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

Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , establishe ...

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

IATA region codes

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 in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

* CAR -

Caribbean sea The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexic ...

countries * CEM -

Central America Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the Americas. Its boundaries are defined as bordering the United States to the north, Colombia to the south, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. ...

* EUR -

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia ...

* 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 ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...

and

Korea Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic ...

* MDE -

Middle East The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabian Peninsula, Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Anatolia, Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Pro ...

* NOA -

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and th ...

* SCH - Schengen agreement countries * SOA -

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sou ...

* SAS -

South Asia South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethno-cultural terms. The region consists of the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.;;;;; ...

* SEA - South-Eastern Asia * SWP - South-West Pacific 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, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...

. 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. (commonly referred to as United), is a major American airline headquartered at the Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois.

) * JPML - Japanese Meal (on Japan Airlines) * JNML - Junior Meal * KSMLS - Kosher Meal (Snack) * NBML - No Beef Meal (on China Airlines) * NFML - No Fish Meal (on

Lufthansa Deutsche Lufthansa AG (), commonly shortened to Lufthansa, is the flag carrier of Germany. When combined with its subsidiaries, it is the second- largest airline in Europe in terms of passengers carried. Lufthansa is one of the five founding ...

) * 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
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