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Air Transport Association

The Air Transport Association (ATA) is America’s oldest and largest airline trade association. ATA’s 18 member airlines and their affiliates transport more than 90 percent of U.S. airline passenger and cargo traffic. U.S. airlines founded the association in 1936 and it is based in Washington, D.C.

Articles About Air Transport Association

Airline hedging
Airlines Hedge Less Than Half of Fuel Costs Against Price Rises

By IBTimes UK

Latest report reveals that a majority of airlines only implement hedging procedures for 21% – 40% of its total fuel for a year, in a bid to guard against rising oil prices. (May 08)

MORE TOPICS: CRUDE OIL, MANAGEMENT

Air France KLM
Airline Fuel Hedging Fails to Help Carriers Slow Soaring Costs

By IBTimes UK

Franco-Dutch airline is the third aviation company this week to report losses stemming from rising fuel costs (May 04)

MORE TOPICS: CRUDE OIL, CRUDE OIL, GERMANY

Christoph Franz, Lufthansa CEO
Lufthansa To Lay Off 3,500 In Restructuring

By IBTimes

Deutsche Lufthansa AG (FRA: LHA) announced Thursday it will lay off 3,500 administrative employees over the next couple of years as part of its plan to save $2 billion by 2014. The news comes a day after the airline announced a first quarter operatin... (May 03)

MORE TOPICS: GERMANY

Indira Gandhi international airport in New Delhi to become world's most expensive airport.
Delhi Airport To Be World's Most Expensive; Airlines And Fliers Oppose Airport Charge Hike

By IBTimes

The Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, India, is set to become the costliest airport in the world, as the Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) that operates the airport has got approval to hike the airport charges. (Apr 26)

MORE TOPICS: INDIA

Russia air crash -- Tyumen, Siberia, Monday, April 2, 2012
Plane Crash In Siberia Kills 31; Criminal Probe Underway

By IBTimes

An ATR-72 twin-engine turboprop carrying 43 people crashed during an attempted emergency landing in a snow-covered field near Tyumen, in western Siberia. (Apr 02)

MORE TOPICS: MANUFACTURING, RUSSIA, DMITRY MEDVEDEV, CUBA, AGING

Delta-Boeing Clash Threatens Obama's Bid to Renew Eximbank

By Reuters

Concerns raised by Delta Air Lines <DAL.N> about the fairness of U.S. Export-Import Bank loans to help Boeing <BA.N> export aircraft are complicating President Barack Obama's push to quickly renew the bank's charter. (Mar 15)

MORE TOPICS: DUBAI, MANUFACTURING, EUROPEAN UNION, COURT, WHITE HOUSE, INDIA

Jet Airways
Service Tax Dept Freezes Jet Airways' Accounts

By IBTimes IN

The Service Tax Department has come down heavily on the Jet Airways for non-payment of service tax dues amounting to about Rs 69 crore. (Mar 12)

A380
China Blocks Airbus Deals Over EU Carbon Tax, Says EADS

By IBTimes

China has blocked purchases of Airbus planes by Chinese companies in reaction to a controversial European carbon tax, the CEO of Airbus parent European Aeronautic Defense & Space Co. NV (Paris: EAD) said Thursday. (Mar 08)

MORE TOPICS: CHINA, EUROPEAN UNION, RUSSIA, INTERNATIONAL LAW

China Vows to Go Against Europe's Carbon Tax on Airlines
EU Airline Carbon Tax: Foes Agree on Tactics

By Reuters

Countries opposed to an EU law forcing the world's airlines to pay for greenhouse gas emissions agreed on a basket of retaliatory measures, adding to a series of threats that have raised the prospect of the globe's first carbon trade war. (Feb 24)

MORE TOPICS: CHINA, EUROPEAN UNION, UNITED NATIONS, RUSSIA, INDIA

Airplane flies through low cloud above high tension electricity transmission cables in Sydney
Tensions grow over EU aviation emissions

By Reuters

Global planemaker Airbus joined a chorus of concern that a European scheme to charge airlines for carbon emissions risks triggering a full-blown trade war, with implications for plane deals and even Europe's crippling sovereign debt crisis. (Feb 13)

MORE TOPICS: CHINA, SOUTH KOREA, COURT, UNITED NATIONS, RUSSIA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES