T&T Aviation Geography (2)

• BTEC Travel & Tourism
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 2

T&T

An introduction to aviation geography:

Maps, airport codes and airline codes

Lesson aim & outcomes

Aim: 

You will know more about airline travel & use of IATA airline codes. 

Outcomes: 

- You can find specific IATA airline codes for given airlines.

- You can find specific airlines using the IATA airline code.      

- You can explain in your own words what Alliances are.

Name as many European
capital cities as you can

Europe Fact File

Most European Airlines fly to the following countries. Can you fill in the capital city and the airport code?

Country                                          Capital City                                            Airport Code

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

CIS

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Finland

France

Germany

How confident do you feel about finding airport codes if you need them

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IATA AIRLINE CODES

IATA Codes are an integral part of the travel industry and essential for the identification of an airline, its destinations and its traffic documents. They are also fundamental to the smooth running of hundreds of electronic applications which have been built around these coding systems for passenger and cargo traffic purposes.

Airline Designator Codes

Those companies assigned an IATA Airline Designator Code are to use such designators for reservations, schedules, timetables, telecommunications, ticketing, cargo documentation, legal, tariffs and/or other commercial/traffic purposes.

IATA airline designator codes

 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. 

Airline designator codes follow the format xx(a), i.e., two alphanumeric characters (letters or digits) followed by an optional letter.

 e.g. KLM -> KL 641 (AMS to JFK)

         Lufthansa  -> LH 186 (AMS-FRA)

Do you know any 2-letter
airline codes?

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Alliances

By working together, they airlines can offer a large number of flights to lots more

Destinations. This is called code-sharing. 

KLM can sell flights to destinations served by Air France and Delta Airlines with their own flight number, but passengers will not be flying on KLM. 

For example, KLM doesn’t fly to Phoenix, Arizona, instead a passenger will fly to Los Angeles and connect onto a Delta flight and fly on to Phoenix. This flight will be sold as KL7762 and won’t be a KLM aircraft but a Delta plane.

Why do airlines form alliances?

Three important Alliances

Skyteam

Oneworld

StarAlliance

Explain in your own words why airlines form alliances.