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We live in a world of amazing beauty, infinite complexity and rigorous challenge. Geography is the subject which opens the door to this dynamic world and prepares each one of us for the role of global citizen in the21st century. World Geography is an important part of Travel & Tourism Industry. Any travel professional who handles the matters related to preparations of Itineraries, reservations, Group Bookings, fare calculations and ticketing should have knowledge about the world geography and also should be able to identify the cities by the location, country, areas and sub areas defined by IATA. Geography is a subject which builds on young people’s own experiences, helping them to formulate questions, develop their intellectual skills and prepares into handling every type of travel client.If a person who is related to travel field is having the knowledge about the world geography then he or she can easily plan out the best suitable itinerary for their clients.The Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere which are the two parts of the world as per the elementary geography is further divided by IATA into3 traffic conference areas called IATA Areas or TC1, TC2 and TC3 which comprise of further sub areas and that is different from the geographical definitions.Next post informs about the different areas assigned by IATA.
International Air Transport Association(IATA) World geography
IATA has divided world into three areas: TC1, TC2, TC3
Note:
IATA Area1 or TC1IATA Area1 or TC1 comprises of North America, South America, Central America and the adjacent islands like Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Islands of the Caribbean Sea, Hawaiian Islands which includes Midway and Palmyra.
Traffic Conference-1 Sub-Areas.
TC1 – North AtlanticNorth Atlantic comprises of Canada, Greenland, USA and Mexico excluding Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Island.
TC1 – Mid AtlanticIncluding The Caribbean Islands, Central America , South America plus Panama Canal Zone except Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.TC1 – South AtlanticArgentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay & Uruguay.
IATA Area2 or TC2IATA Area2 or Traffic Conference(TC) area2 comprises of Europe, Africa and Ascension Island and parts of Asia west of Ural mountains including Iran and countries of Middle East.
1. Europe
2. Africa
3. Middle East
IATA Area3 or TC3IATA Area3 or Traffic Conference(TC) area3 Asia (East of the Urals), Oceania, (Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific Islands)
1. South East Asia
2. South Asian Sub continent
3. japan, Korea (Japkor)
4. South West pacific
IATA Global Indicators:
Fares vary not only by class of service or fare type but also by routing type as represented by global indicators. There are so many GI, main are:
1. WH
When travel is wholly within TC1
E.g. NYC (New York)-RIO(Rio de jenrio)
2. EH
When travel is wholly with in TC2 and TC3 or Eastern Hemisphere
E.g. DEL (Delhi)- PAR (Paris)
3. AT
When travel is between TC1 and TC2 i.e. via Atlantic Ocean
E.g. DEL(Delhi)- LON(London)- NYC (New York)
4. PA
When travel is between TC3 and TC1 i.e. via pacific ocean
E.g. DEL(Delhi)- SIN (Singapore)- LAX(Switzerland)
5. TS
When travel is between TC2 and TC3 with a flight coupon on non stop services Europe and JAPKOR.
E.g. LON (London)- TYO (Tokyo)
Traffice conference area are the IATA geography division of global in to three subdivision TC1 (area one),TC2 (area two),TC3 (area three)
TC1 includes all of the north and south american continent.normally the countries which falls in western hemisphere are included here. TC2 includes all the Europen countries, part of russia, all African continent and some part of west asia. TC3 includes all part of Asia continent except included in TC2, austrila, new zealand and some part of pacific island that are not included in Tc1
There are 3 three traffice conference areas in aviations,
area 1, area 2 and area 3
Tariff Conference 1 or TC 1 is composed of the American continent, both North and South. It has two sub-area classification: American Classification and Atlantic Classification.
Tariff Conference 2 or TC 2 is subdivided into three main sub-areas and those are the following: Europe, africa and middle east
Tariff Conference 3 or TC 3 is composed of the remaining area which is almost the entire continent of Asia and the neighboring islands. Listed below are the 4 sub-areas: south east asia, indian sub continent, southwest pacific, japan and korea
There are 3 traffic conference areas. TC1, TC2 and TC3. They are any of these three world-wide subdivisions used by airline industry.
Traffic Conference Areas is the term used by IATA to divide the World Map to 3 different areas.
TCA 1 or Area 1 - consists of North and south america
TCA2 or Area 2- consists of Europe , Middle East. and west side of Russia
TCA3 or Area 3- consists of Russia, Japan& Korea, South East Asia, South west pacific.
With the areas Divided, each area is also divided to 3 different parts. and with this, it makes it easier for airline to determine the routes and price for every destinations.
Traffic Conference Areas is the term used by IATA to divide the World Map to 3 different areas. There are 3 TC's in Aviation field
