A list of all Airline codes. The table lists the IATA airline designators, the ICAO airline designators and the airline call signs (telephony designator). Historical assignments are also included for completeness. The International Air Transport Association is an international trade organization of airlines headquarted in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), an agency of the United Nations, develops the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth. ...

IATA airline designator

IATA airline designators, sometimes called IATA reservation codes, are two-character codes assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to the world's airlines in accordance with the provisions of IATA Resolution 762. They form the first two characters of the flight number. The International Air Transport Association is an international trade organisation of airlines headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... An Airbus A380 of Emirates Airline An airline provides air transport services for passengers or freight. ...

Designators are used to identify an airline for all commercial purposes, including reservations, timetables, tickets, tariffs, air waybills and in airline interline telecommunications. There are three types of designator: unique, numeric/alpha and controlled duplicate. Reservation may refer to: Reservation, a tract of land set apart for a special purpose: an area for indigenous peoples to live in: Indian reservation Indian reserve (in Canada) Reservation, an area where hunting animals is not permitted. ... A timetable is an organized list or schedule, usually set out in tabular form, providing information about a series of arranged events: in particular, the time at which it is planned these events will take place. ... A flight coupon (Thai Airways International) An airline ticket is an electronic or paper receipt issued by an airline or a travel agent to confirm that an individual has purchased an airline flight. ... A tariff is a tax on foreign goods. ... A waybill is a document issued by a carrier giving details and instructions relating to the shipment of a consignment of goods. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

Since 1987 the (ICAO) has been issuing three-letter codes, which are due to be adopted by IATA.^{[citation needed]}

IATA maintains two policies to deal with the limited number of available codes:

1. after an airline is delisted, the code becomes available for reuse after six months;
2. IATA issues "controlled duplicates".

Controlled duplicates are issued to regional airlines whose destinations are not likely to overlap, in such a way that the same code would be shared by two different airlines. The controlled duplicate is denoted here with an asterisk (*) following the code and in IATA literature as well.

ICAO airline designator

The ICAO airline designator is a code assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to aircraft operating agencies, aeronautical authorities and services. The codes are unique by airline which is not true for the IATA airline designator codes. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), an agency of the United Nations, codifies the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth. ... IATA airline designators, sometimes called IATA reservation codes, are two-character codes assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to the worlds airlines in accordance with the provisions of Resolution 762. ...

Each aircraft operating agency, aeronautical authority and services related to international aviation is allocated both a three-letter designator and a telephony designator. The designators are listed in ICAO Document 8585: Designators for Aircraft Operating Agencies, Aeronautical Authorities and Services.

An example is:

• Three-letter designator - AAL
• Telephony ters are not allocated to avoid confusion with other systems (for example SOS). Other designators particularly those starting with Y and Z are reserved for government organizations.

Designator YYY is used for operators that do not have a code allocated.

See also

• IATA airport code
• ICAO airport code

An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ... The ICAO (IPA pronunciation: ) airport code or location indicator is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ...

External links

• International Civil Aviation Organization (official site)
• ICAO On-line Publications Purchasing (official site)
• ICAO 8585 - Designators for Aircraft Operating Agencies (online version provided by EUROCONTROL)
• Airline Designator / Code Database Search (from The Airline Codes Web Site)

EUROCONTROL is the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, an international organisation whose primary objective is the development of a seamless, pan-European Air Traffic Management (ATM) system. ...

References

• Morten, Beyer & Agnew International Aviation Oracle
• Aerosite