Airlines for America
Airlines for America ( A4A ) is an umbrella organization for American airlines . A4A was founded in 1936 as the Air Transport Association ( ATA ) in Chicago by 14 airlines and is still the most important association of airlines in the USA .
tasks
The main task of the A4A is to represent the interests of airlines vis-à-vis the US government with regard to regulations relating to air traffic.
The A4A sets the standards in many areas, which are then adapted by airlines around the world. This is, for example, the ATA100 , which describes how conventional maintenance manuals are structured in chapters . The continuation is the new ATA2000 , which actually describes the same thing, but for digital documentation (CD-ROM). These standards are observed by all suppliers to the aviation industry and enable maintenance personnel to find the right chapters in various documents relatively easily.
But the areas of the A4A go further, the growing importance of fuel quality and its handling at airports has been increasingly controlled in recent years via the ATA Spec 103 and often requires changes and further training of the supervising staff.
A more recent focus of the A4A is so-called Simplified English , a standard in the expression of the English language in the aviation environment is now to be generated. These approaches are z. B. already taken up by the engine manufacturers and taken into account in new revisions.
Airlines
- ABX Air
- Alaska Airlines Seattle
- Aloha Airlines Honolulu
- America West Phoenix
- American Airlines Dallas
- Astar Air Cargo Miami
- Atlas Air
- Continental Airlines Houston
- Evergreen International Airlines
- FedEx Corporation Memphis
- Hawaiian Airlines Honolulu
- JetBlue Airways
- Midwest Airlines
- Northwest Airlines
- Southwest Airlines Dallas
- United Airlines Chicago
- UPS Airlines
- US Airways
Associate Members (Non-US Airlines)
Industry members
- Aero Instruments & Avionics
- ATR aircraft
- Benfield Group
- Bombardier Regional Aircraft
- Cendant Corporation ( Galileo GDS )
- Embraer
- Honeywell Aerospace
- KPMG
- Metron Aviation Inc.
- Pratt & Whitney
- The Royal Bank of Scotland
- Sensis Corporation
- SITA
- TDG Aerospace Inc.
- TIMCO Aviation Services
- Universal Air Travel Plan
- Unisys Global Transportation
- USI Insurance Services
- WinWare Inc.
Status: 2006
See also
Web links
- Website of Airlines for America (English)