IATA - World Geography

A Presentation by Rajiv Bajaj

 The Areas
For tariff & administrative purposes, IATA has
divided the world into 3 distinct geographical
areas.

These are known as Traffic Conference Areas.

Traffic Conference Area 1

Traffic Conference Area 2

Traffic Conference Area 3

 The Areas
For tariff & administrative purposes, IATA has
divided the world into 3 distinct geographical
areas.

These are known as Traffic Conference Areas.

Traffic Conference Area 1

Traffic Conference Area 2

Traffic Conference Area 3

Traffic Conference Area 1

North, South and Central America

Hawaiian Islands

Bermuda

Greenland

All the Caribbean Islands

Traffic Conference Area 2

Europe (including Iceland, Russia to the west

of Ural Mountains) & Islands adjacent to
Europe

Canary Islands

The Middle East (including

Iran) Africa and adjacent

islands
Traffic Conference Area 3

Asia (including Russia to the east of the Ural

Mountains)

Islands of the Pacific Ocean lying west of the

Australasia
IATA’s three main offices - Geneva, Montreal
and Singapore.

Geneva office - Europe, Africa and the Middle

East

Montreal office - The Americas

Singapore office - The Far East and Australasia

IATA - TC 1
 Traffic Conference Area 1

Covers Western Hemisphere including –

North & South America and adjacent islands;

Greenland;

West Indies;
Islands of Caribbean Sea; and
Hawaiian Islands, including Midway
and Palmyra
Sub-Division 1
North America:

Alaska
Canada
n in n l . .A.
Hawaii
Mexico
St. Pierre
Miquelon
 Sub-Division 2
Central America:

Belize, Costa Rica, EL

Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, Nicaragua,
Caribbean Area (Anguilla,
Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas,
Barbados, Barbuda,
Bermuda, Bonaire, British
Virgin Islands, Cayman
Islands, Cuba, Curacao,
Dominica, Dominican
Republic, French Guyana,
Grenada, Guadeloupe,
Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica,
Martinique, Nevis, Puerto
Rico, Saba, St.
Barthelemy, St.Eustatius,
St. Kitts, St.
Lucia, St. Martin, St. Vincent,
Trinidad and Tobago, U.S.
Virgin Islands, Surinam.
Sub-Division 3

South
America:
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Panama
Uruguay
Venezuela.
IATA - TC 2
 Traffic Conference Area 2
All of Europe (including that part of the C.I.S. in
Europe)

Iceland
Azores of Africa and island adjacent thereto;
Ascension Islands;
The part of Asia lying west of, and
including Iran.
Sub-Division 1
Consists of
the whole
of Europe,
including the
European
Community
member states
& Schengen
member
states.
EU Members
AUSTRIA
BELGIUM
BULGARIA
CYPRUS
THE CZECH REPUBLIC
DENMARK
ESTONIA
FINLAND
FRANCE
GERMANY
GREECE
HUNGARY

ITALY
LATVIA
LITHUANIA
LUXEMBOURG
MALTA
NETHERLANDS
POLAND
PORTUGAL
Schengen Members:

• Austria
• Germany
• Belgium
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Greece
• ce an
• Italy
• Luxemburg
• Norway
• Portugal
• Spain
• Sweden
• The Netherlands
 Sub-Division 2
Middle East:
Bahrain, Benin
Egypt, Iran,
Iraq, Israel,
Jordan,
K w i L n n
Oman, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia,
Sudan, Syria,
United Arab
Emirates,
Yemen.
 Sub-Division 3
Africa, including
its neighbouring
islands.

It is further sub-
divided into
different regional
zones.
 Southern
Botswana,
Lesotho,
Mozambique,
Namibia,
h Afri
Swaziland,
Central
Africa,
Malawi,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe.
 Western
Angola, Benin, Burkina,
Faso, Cameroon, Cape
Verde, Central African
Republic, Chad, Congo,
Cote d'Ivoire
(Ivory Coast),
Equatorial
u nea, a on,
Gambia,
Ghana,
Guinea, Bissan,
Liberia, Mali,
Mauritania, Niger,
Nigeria, Sao Tome
and Principle Senegal,
Sierra, Leone, Togo,
Zaire.
Eastern
Burundi,
Djibouti,
Ethiopia,
Kenya,
Rwanda,
Somalia,
Tanzania,
Uganda,
Kenya,
Tanzania,
Uganda.
East / Central
Eastern &
Central
Africa Indian
Ocean
Islands:

Comoros,
Madagascar,
Mauritius,
Mayotte,
Reunion,
Seychelles.
IATA - TC 3
 Traffic Conference Area 3
Includes all of Asia and the adjacent islands;

All of the East Indies;

Islands of the Pacific Ocean except those

included in TC 1;

Part of the Russian Federation East of the Ural

Mountains.
 Sub-Division 1
South Asian
Subcontinent:
SAARC Countries –

Af hanistan
Bangladesh,
Bhutan, India,
Maldives, Nepal,
Pakistan,
Sri
Lanka
Sub-Division 2
South West
Pacific
(Australasia):
Australia, Cook
Islands Papua New
Guinea,
Samoa, oc ety
s an s,
Solomon Island,
Tonga, Turvalu.
Vanustu and
Intermediate
islands.
 Sub-Division 3
South East Asia:

Brunei, Cambodia, China

People's Republic, Guam,
Hong Kong, Indonesia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Lao (People's Dem.
Rep.), Malaysia,
Mongolia, Myanmar,
Philippine, Russian
Federation (East of the
Urals), Singapore,
Taiwan, Tajikistan,
Thailand, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan, Vietnam,
 Sub-Division 4

Japan
&
Kr
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