A global collaborative effort to create industry standards for information exchange that supports engineering, maintenance, materiel management and flight operations.
As a result, airlines and suppliers have seen dramatic improvements in data efficiency, security and consistency, and have experienced a significant reduction in the time required for delivery and retrieval of operationally critical information.
ATA, ASD and AIA announced a collaboration agreement to align international technical publication data in the aerospace and defense, and commercial aviation industries.
The Air Transport Association is a corporate membership organization founded by a group of 14 airlines that met in Chicago on Jan. 3, 1936. ATA was the first and remains the only trade organization of the principal U.S. airlines.
ATA serves its member airlines and their customers by assisting the airline industry in providing the world’s safest system of transportation; transmitting technical expertise and operational knowledge among member airlines to improve safety, service and efficiency; advocating fair airline taxation and regulation worldwide to foster an economically healthy and competitive industry; and by developing and coordinating industry actions that are environmentally beneficial, economically reasonable and technologically feasible.
Today, ATA membership comprises 12 passenger carriers; 6 all-cargo carriers; and 4 associate (international) members. In June of 2005, the ATA board adopted a new class of membership, Industry Member. There is also another distinct designation of Industry Partner. Membership entitles industry participants the opportunity to attend ATA committee meetings and get access to ATA materials. There are currently 30 non-airline companies that have made the decision to work with ATA in one of these ways.
ATA welcomes AirTran Airways as its newest and 19th airline member.