Three-pronged IATA Strategy On Safety This Year

IATA has come up with a plan to focus on three key safety areas this year. The basic rationale for this plan is to inform the governments worldwide on what are the basic things which contribute to effective airline safety rather than the unnecessary regulatory measures. IATA believes that many countries worldwide ignore or do not take appropriate steps on some of the crucial factors that can help in improving the safety. So, there is a need for developing a common approach that can be applied worldwide, both on the domestic and the international flights. The benefit of these measures will be that the governments will be able to rationalize and simplify the measures related to the safety aspects and save the associated costs.  However, some other analysts are of the opinion that while the governments might save the costs, the cheap air tickets might become a little costlier as these measures will entail their own costs. There three areas are:

Pilots and Engineers Training

IATA plans to work along with the ICAO, IFALPA and regulators for facilitating the implementation of the IATA training and Qualification Initiative (ITQI). ITQI is a comprehensive approach to the modernization of the training of pilots and engineers.  

Enhanced IOSA Program

 In order to ensure that the operational safety is never compromised and the airlines do not fall back on the requirement of the safety audit of their fleet for offering cheap air tickets or any other reason, the Enhanced IATA Operational Security Audit Program ensures that there is continued compliance with its standards and recommended practices for providing cheap international flights to the customers.

Ground Operations

The Ground Handling Committee of IATA focuses on improving efficiency and safety and is supported by a dedicated ground operations team. This committee is instrumental in making the ground operations of the airlines worldwide more efficient and simplified, thereby resulting in the airlines saving more due to minimization of wastages and timely runs of the aircrafts. Efficient ground operations are one of the main factors for the airlines to provide cheap international flights to the customers. This is even more relevant for the successful operation of the international flights by the low-cost carriers which already provide cheap air tickets to the customers.