IATA Geography and Global Indicators

CHAPTER 2

IATA Areas of the World

1. Traffic Conference Area 1 (TC1)

a. North America : Mexico (MX), Canada (CA), St. Pierre & Miquelon (PM), USA
(US)
b. Central America : Belize (BZ), Costa Rica (CR), El Salvador (SV), Guatemala (GT),
Honduras (HN), Nicaragua (NI)
c. Caribbean Area : Bahamas (BS), Bermuda (BM), Caribbean Island*, Guyana (GY),
French Guiana (GF), Suriname (SR)
Caribbean Islands include :
Anguilla (AI), Antigua and Barbuda (AG), Aruba (AW), Barbados (BB), Cayman
Islands (KY), Cuba (CU), Dominica (DM), Dominican Republic (DO), Grenada (GD),
Guadeloupe (GP), Haiti (HT), Jamaica (JM), Martinique (MQ), Montserrat (MS),
Netherlands Antilles (AN), St. Kitts and Nevis (KN), St.Lucia (LC), St. Vincent and
the Grenadines (VC), Trinidad and Tobago (TT), Turks and Caicos Islands (TC),
Virgin Islands-British (VG)
d. South America :
Argentina (AR) Ecuador (EC) Peru (PE)
Bolivia (BO) French Guiana (GF) Suriname (SR)
Brazil (BR) Guyana (GY) Uruguay (UY)
Chile (CL) Panama (PA) Venezuela (VE)
Colombia (CO) Paraguay (PY)

2. Traffic Conference Area 2 (TC2)

a. Europe
Albania (AL) Greece (GR) San Marino (SM)
Algeria (DZ) Hungary (HU) Slovakia (SK)
Andorra (AD) Iceland (IS) Slovenia (SI)
Armenia (AM) Ireland, Rep. of (IE) Spain (ES), incl. Balearic
& Canary Islands
Austria (AT) Italy (IT)
Azerbaijan (AZ) Latvia (LV) Sweden (SE)
Belarus (BY) Liechtenstein (LI) Switzerland (CH)
Belgium (BE) Lithuania (LT) Tunisia (TN)
Bosnia Herzegovina (BA) Luxembourg (LU) Turkey (TR)
Bulgaria (BG) Macedonia (MK) Ukraine (UA)
Croatia (HR) Malta (MT) United Kingdom (GB)
Cyprus (CY) Moldova, Rep. of (MD) Yugoslavia (YU)
Czech Republic (CZ) Monaco (MC)
Denmark (DK) Morocco (MA)
Estonia (EE) Netherlands (NL)
Faroe Islands (FO) Norway (NO)
Finland (FI) Poland (PL)
France (FR) Portugal (PT) including Azores
Georgia (GE) & Madeira
Germany (DE) Romania (RO)
Gibraltar (GI) Russia in Europe (RU)

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Within Europe, you will also find other commonly used sub-groups, such as :
a. European Common Aviation Area (ECAA) countries :
Austria, Belgium Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Rep.
of Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal,
Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
b. Economic & Monetary Union (EMU) :
Austria, Belgium, Finland, France and its territories including Monaco,
Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, Ireland, Italy. Netherlands. Portugal, and
Spain.
c. Scandinavia : Denmark, Norway & Sweden

b. Africa :
 Central Africa : Malawi (MW), Zambia (ZM), Zimbabwe (ZW)
 Eastern Africa : Burundi (BI), Djibouti (DJ), Eritrea (ER), Ethiopia (ET), Kenya
(KE), Rwanda (RW), Somalia (SO), Tanzania (TZ) and Uganda (UG)
 Southern Africa : Botswana (BW), Lesotho (LS), Mozambique (MZ), South Africa
(ZA), Namibia (NA), Swaziland (SZ)
 Libya : or Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (LY)
 Indian Ocean Islands : Comoros (KM), Madagascar (MG), Mauritius (MU), Mayotte
(YT), Reunion (RE), Seychelles (SC)
 Western Africa : Angola (AO), Benin (BJ), Burkina Faso (BF), Cameroon (CM),
Cape Verde (CV), Central African Republic (CF), Chad (TD), Congo (CG), Cote
d’Ivoire (CI), Democratic Republic of Congo (CD), Equatorial Guinea (GQ), Gabon
(GA), Gambia (GM), Ghana (GH), Guinea (GN), Guinea Bissau (GW), Liberia (LR),
Mali (ML), Mauritania (MR), Niger (NE), Nigeria (NG), Principe and Sao Tome (ST),
Senegal (SN), Sierra Leone (SL) and Togo (TG)

c. Middle East :
Bahrain (BH) Jordan (JO) Saudi Arabia (SA)
Egypt (EG) Kuwait (KW) Sudan (SD)
Iran (IR) Lebanon (LB) Syrian Arab Republic (SY)
Iraq (IQ) Oman, Sultanate of (OM) United Arab Emirates (AE)
Israel (IL) Qatar (QA) Yemen, Republic of (YE)

3. Traffic Conference Area 3 (TC 3)

a. South East Asia Sub-area (SEA)
Brunei Darussalam (BN)
Cambodia (KH)
China (CN) excl. Hongkong SAR and Macau SAR
Chinese Taipei (TW)
Christmas Island (CX)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands (CC)
Guam (GU)
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (HK)
Indonesia (ID)
Kazakhstan (KZ)
Kyrgyzstan (KG)
Laos (LA)
Macau Special Administrative Region, China (MO)
Malaysia (MY)
Marshall Islands (MH) Russia in Asia (XU)
Micronesia (FM) Singapore (SG)

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 Mongolia (MN) Tajikistan (TJ)
Myanmar (MM) Thailand (TH)
Nothern Mariana Islands (MP) Turkmenistan (TM)
Palau PW) Uzbekistan (UZ)
Philippines (PH) Viet Nam (VN)

b. South Asian Subcontinent Sub-area (SASC)

Afghanistan (AF) Maldives (MV)
Bangladesh (BD) Nepal (NP)
Bhutan (BT) Pakistan (PK)
India (IN) Sri Lanka (LK)

c. Japan, Korea Sub-area

Japan (JP)
Korea, Democratic Republic of (KP)
Korea, Republic of (KR)

d. South West Pacific Sub-area

American Samoa (AS)
Australia (AU)
Cook Islands (CK)
Fiji (FJ)
French Polynesia (PF)
Kiribati (KI)
Nauru (NR)
New Caledonia incl. Loyalty Islands (NC)
New Zealand (NZ)
Niue (NU)
Papua New Guinea (PG)
Samoa (WS)
Solomon Islands (SB)
Tonga (TO)
Tuvalu (TV)
Vanuatu (VU)
Wallis & Futuna Islands (WF) and intermediate islands

IATA Global Indicators

TC1 : also refers to travel within Area 1 or Western Hemisphere

WH – Western Hemisphere travel
Example : RIO – MIA
TC 2 : represents travel within Area 2 or the Eastern Hemisphere
EH – for Eastern Hemisphere travel
Example : GVA – JNB
TC 3 : also refers to travel within Area 3 which is part of Eastern Hemisphere travel
EH – for Eastern Hemisphere routing
Example : SIN – KBL

TC 12 : Travel between Area 1 and Area 2

AT : via Atlantic Ocean
Example : ZRH – NYC – RIO

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TC 31 : Travel between Area 3 and Area 1
PA : via the Pacific
Example : BJS – HNL – SFO
SEA – TPE
BOG – SFO – MNL
PN : Transpacific routing between South America and South West Pacific via North
America but not via the North and Central Pacific
Example : SYD – LAX – MEX – SCL

TC123 : Travel between Area 1 and Area 3 via Area 2

AT : via the Atlantic Ocean
Examples : HKG – LON – YTO
RIO – FRA – BKK
KHI – KWI – NYC
DAC – NYC (transiting DEL and BRU)
SA : via the South Atlantic Routing between South Atlantic sub-area and South East
Asia via the Atlantic and via point(s) in Central Africa, Southern Africa, Indian Ocean
Islands only or via direct services
Examples : RIO to HKG where the direct flight flies over Johannesburg
SIN – MRU – JNB – SAO

TC 23 : Travel between Area 2 and Area 3

AP : via the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Example : HKG – YVR – LON
RU : Between Russia in Europe and TC3 with a flight coupon on nonstop service
between Russia (in Europe) and Japan / Korea; not via another country(ies) in Europe
Example : MOW – TYO
HKG – SEL – MOW – LED
TS : Travel between TC2 and TC3 (which is other than RU/FE/EH) with a flight
coupon on non sop services between Europe and Japan/Korea
Example : STO – TYO
BKK – TYO – FRA
HKG – SEL – MOW – LCA
MOW – PAR – OSA
FE : travel exclusively between Russia (in Europe)/Ukraine and Area 3 (other than
RU/TS/EH) with a flight coupon on a nonstop sector between Russia (in Europe
)/Ukraine and TC3 other than Japan Korea
Example : MOW – SIN
IEV – MOW – BJS – TYO
EH : via Eastern Hemisphere (which does not fall under any above mentioned global
indicator)
Example : HKG – DXB – MOW
MOW – PAR – SIN
JNB – KUL - SYD