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'''IATA codes''' are abbreviations that the [[International Air Transport Association]] (IATA) publishes to facilitate [[air travel]]. They are typically 1, 2, 3, or 4 character combinations (referred to as [[unigram]]s, [[Bigram|digrams]], [[trigram]]s, or [[wikt:tetragram|tetragram]]s, respectively) that uniquely identify locations, equipment, companies, and times to standardize international flight operations. All codes within each group follow a pattern (same number of characters, and using either all letters or letter/digit combinations) to reduce the potential for error.

== Airport codes ==

{{Main|International Air Transport AssociationIATA airport code}}

[[IATA airport code]]s are [[trigram]] letter designations for [[airport]]s, like "ORY" ([[Paris-Orly Airport]]), "CPT" ([[Cape Town International Airport]]) and, OTP ([[Henri Coandă International Airport|Otopeni International Airport]]) and "BCN" ([[Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport|Barcelona-El Prat]]).

== Airline designators ==

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[[IATA airline designator]]s are digram letter/digit codes for [[airline]] companies, like "M6" ([[Amerijet]]), "NH" ([[All Nippon Airways]]), and "4A" ([[Air Kiribati]]).

== Aircraft type designators ==

{{main article|List of aircraft type designators}}

'''IATA aircraft type designators''' are trigram letter/digit codes used for [[aircraft]] models, like "J41" ([[BAe Jetstream 41|British Aerospace Jetstream 41]]) and "744" ([[Boeing 747-400]]).

== Country codes ==

[[Bigram|Digram]] letter codes are used for [[country|countries]] as specified in [[ISO 3166-1 alpha-2]]. One additional code is used:

* code XU is used to specify part of [[Russia]] east of (but not including) the [[Ural Mountains]].

== Currency codes ==

[[Trigram]] letter codes are used for [[currency|currencies]] as specified in [[ISO 4217]].

== IATA timezonetime zone codes ==

'''IATA timezonetime zone''' is a [[country]] or a part of a country, where [[Time zone|local time]] is the same. IATA timezonetime zone code is constructed of 2–4 characters (letters and digits) as follows:

'''IATA timezone''' is a [[country]] or a part of a country, where [[Time zone|local time]] is the same. IATA timezone code is constructed of 2–4 characters (letters and digits) as follows:

* [[ISO 3166-1 alpha-2]] country code is always used as first and second characters of time zone code.

* If country is not divided into separate time zones – no more characters added. Just 2 characters used.

* If country is divided into time zones – 3rd character of time zone code is a digit – number of time zone in country. ''Note:'' [[Russia]] is divided into 11 timezonestime zones, so number of time zone in country is specified by 2 digits – RU01, RU02, ... RU11.

* If some territories have the same local time, but different rules on [[Daylightdaylight saving time]] – a letter can be added as 4th character to make unique codes for all such territories.

''Example'': Time zone code AU2 is used for [[Australia]]n states [[New South Wales]] and [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] (local time is [[UTC]] + 10 hours, DST begins at end of October). Time zone code AU2A is used for [[Tasmania]] (local time is UTC + 10 hours, DST begins at end of September). Time zone code AU2B is used for [[Queensland]] (local time is UTC + 10 hours, no DST).

== IATA region codes ==

'''IATA region codes''' [[trigram]] letters codes used to specify large territories, consisting of several countries.

Line 41 ⟶ 39:

* AFR - [[Africa]]

* CAR - [[Caribbean seaSea]] countries

* CEM - [[Central America]]

* EUR - [[Europe]]

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Country code AQ is used to specify [[Antarctica]]. Country AQ is not in any of regions listed here.

== IATA meal codes ==

== IATA meal codes<ref>[http://www.iata.org/publications/Documents/cabin-operations-safety-bp-guide-2015.pdf Cabin Operations Safety Best Practices Guide - 7.10 Special Meals]</ref> ==

IATA [https://www.skybrary.aero/bookshelf/books/3996.pdf Cabin Operations Safety Best Practices Guide - 19.7 Special Meals] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211114175411/https://www.skybrary.aero/bookshelf/books/3996.pdf |date=2021-11-14 }} defines the following standard meal codes:

* ALML - Allergen Meal

* AVML - Asian Vegetarian Meal

* BBML - Baby Meal

* CAKE - Birthday Cake (on [[SAS airlines|SAS]])

* BLML - Bland Meal

* CHML - ChildrenChild Meal

* CLML - Celebration Cake Meal

* DBML - Diabetic Meal

* FPML - Fruit Platter Meal

* GFML - Gluten Intolerant Meal

* HNML - Hindu Non-Vegetarian Meal

* KSML - Kosher Meal

* LCML - Low -Calorie Meal

* LSML - Low SaltSodium Meal

* MOML - Muslim Meal

* NLML - Non-Lactose Meal

* RVML - Raw Vegetarian Meal

* LFML - Low Fat Meal

* SFML - Seafood Meal

* VGML - Vegan Meal

* VJML - Vegetarian Jain Meal

* VLML - Vegetarian Lacto-ovo Meal

* VOML - Vegetarian Oriental Meal

Codes used by other airlines include:

* ALML - Allergen Meal

* CLML - Celebration Cake Meal

* HFML - High Fibre Meal

* JPMLOBML - Japanese Obento Meal (on [[JapanUnited Airlines]]{{cn|date=August 2021}})

* HNML - Hindu Non-Vegetarian Meal

* OBMLJPML - Japanese Obento Meal (on [[UnitedJapan Airlines]]{{cn|date=August 2021}})

* JPML - Japanese Meal (on [[Japan Airlines]])

* JNML - Junior Meal

* KSML - Kosher Meal

* KSMLS - Kosher Meal (Snack)

* NBML - No Beef Meal (on [[China Airlines]]{{cn|date=August 2021}})

* LCML - Low Calorie Meal

* NFML - No Fish Meal (on [[Lufthansa]]{{cn|date=August 2021}})

* LFML - Low Fat Meal

* NBML - No Beef Meal (on [[China Airlines]])

* NFML - No Fish Meal (on [[Lufthansa]])

* NLML - Non-Lactose Meal

* LPML - Low Protein Meal

* PRML - Low Purin Meal

* LSML - Low Salt Meal

* MOML - Muslim Meal

* ORML - Oriental Meal

* PFML - Peanut Free Meal

* RFML - Refugee Meal (on [[United Airlines]])

* SFML - Seafood Meal

* SPML - Special Meal, Specify Food

* VJML - Vegetarian Jain Meal

* VLML - Vegetarian Lacto-ovo Meal

* VOML - Vegetarian Oriental Meal

* RVML - Raw Vegetarian Meal

* VVML - Vegetarian Vegan Meal (some airlines require VGML)

== Name class codes ==

The trigram is composed of the first letter of first name and the first two letters of the names (ISO 9625)

== IATA class codes ==

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IATA class codes are 1-letter codes created to help airlines standardize conditions of travel on passenger tickets and other traffic documents.

== IATA tax codes ==

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List of ticket and airport tax codes:

* AB - Government Tax

* AC - Value Added Tax

* AE - Passenger Service Charge (International)

* AF - Airport Departure Fee (Domestic/International)

* AG - Ticket Tax

* AH - Airport Tax

* AI - Baggage Security Screening Fee

* AJ - Airport Exit Tax (International)

* AK - Airport Departure Tax (International)

* AL - Passenger Service Charge (Domestic/International)

== See also ==

*[[ICAO airport code]]

*[[List of IATA-indexed railway stations]]

==Notes==

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==References==

* IATA [https://www.skybrary.aero/bookshelf/books/3996.pdf Cabin Operations Safety Best Practices Guide - 19.7 Special Meals] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211114175411/https://www.skybrary.aero/bookshelf/books/3996.pdf |date=2021-11-14 }}

* Airports and airlines [https://iata.codes/ IATA codes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211213120228/https://iata.codes/ |date=2021-12-13 }} list

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