The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced Automated Carrier Baggage Rules (ACBR), the latest project in IATA’s Simplifying the Business program. ACBR will provide a central database for interline baggage rules, enabling airlines, travel agents, and passengers to know what baggage rules will apply for any given itinerary. “Baggage rules are becoming increasingly complex and [...]

The airline alliance, in cooperation with SITA, implemented Fast Travel’s bag recovery project at Copenhagen earlier this year, allowing passengers to register lost bags quickly and easily. Bag recovery allows passengers to report a missing bag at a kiosk instead of waiting in line at a baggage service counter, so they can quickly generate a [...]

IATA welcomed the Copenhagen Accord reached at the UN Climate Change Conference last week as “an important step in the right direction,” and said the fact that aviation emissions were not addressed specifically was “a reflection of the proactive measures the industry has taken to set challenging targets for itself, together with an aggressive strategy [...]