IATA
The airline trade body whose three-letter codes appear on tickets and baggage tags.
Also written
international air transport association
IATA codes are commercial rather than geographic and are not globally unique in the way ICAO codes are, which is why they are the second code on a TailzIN airport hub rather than the first. They are the ones passengers recognise: JFK, LHR, TLV.
Nearby in Aviation
- hold short — An instruction to stop before a runway or other boundary and wait.
- holding pattern — A published racetrack circuit an aircraft flies to wait, usually for its turn to approach.
- ICAO — The United Nations agency that sets international aviation standards, and the source of the four-letter airport codes.
- ILS — A ground-based radio system that guides an aircraft down to the runway on both centreline and descent path.