IATA region codes

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

Following codes are used:

 AFR - Africa
 CAR - Caribbean sea countries

 CEM - Central America

 EUR - Europe

 TC1 - IATA American Traffic Conference (includes NOA, CEM, SOA and CAR)

 TC3 - IATA Asian Traffic Conference (includes JAK, SAS, SEA, SWP)

 TC2 - IATA European and African Traffic Conference (includes AFR, EUR, MDE)

 JAK - Japan and Korea

 MDE - Middle East

 NOA - North America

 SCH - Schengen agreement countries

 SOA - South America

 SAS - South Asia

 SEA - South-Eastern Asia

 SWP - South-West Pacific

Speaking on region codes and countries, country code RU is used to specify part of Russia west
from (and including of) Ural Mountains and country code XU is used to specify part
of Russia east from (and not including of) Ural Mountains. Country RU is in EUR region, country
XU is in SEA region. For all other purposes only country code RU is used to specify all the
territory of Russia.

Country code AQ is used to specify Antarctica. Country AQ is not in any of regions listed here.
3. South Atlantic sub-area includes only Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and
Uruguay (ABCPU).
Important: You will sometimes find fare rules that may specify variations in the
composition of thc sub-areas. In such eases for the purpose of reference in those
rules, you have to take note of certain exceptions to the sub-area definitions.
Area 2 is subdivided into only three main sub-areas. You will find the countries for
each sub-area below.

3.1.2 Traffic Conference Area

1. Europe
Albania (AL)- Algeria (DZ) Andorra (AD) Armenia (AM) Austria (AT) Azerbaijan (AZ)
Belarus (BY) Belgium (BE) Bosnia Herzegovina (BA) Bulgaria (BG) Croatia (HR)
Cyprus (CY) Czech Republic (CZ) Denmark (DK) Estonia (BE) Faroe Islands (FO)
Finland (FT). France (FR) Georgia (GE) Germany (DE)  (TC2) Gibraltar (GI) Greece
(GR)' Hungary (HU) Iceland (IS)/ Ireland, Rep. of (IE)---A. Italy (IT) Latvia (LV)
Liechtenstein (LI) Lithuania (LT) Luxembourg (LU) Macedonia (MK) Malta (MT)
Moldova, Rep. of (MD) Monaco (MC) Morocco (MA) Netherlands (NL) Norway (NO)
Poland (PL). Portugal (PT) including Azores & Madeira Romania (RO) IATA

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Russia in Europe (RU) San Marino (SM) Serbia and Montenegro (CS) Slovakia (SK)
Slovenia (SI) Spain, including Balearic & Canary Islands (ES)  Sweden (SE)
Switzerland (CH) Tunisia (TN) Turkey (TR) Ukraine (UA) United Kingdom (GB)

Within Europe, you will also find other commonly used sub-groups such as:
• European Common Aviation Area (ECAA) and related
states (28): Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland,
France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
• Economic & Monetary Union (EMU) (21): Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, France and its territories including
Monaco, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova,
Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain.
• Scandinavia: Denmark, Norway & Sweden

2. Africa:
Africa is subdivided further into regions such as:
• Central Africa composed of Malawi (MW), Zambia (ZM), Zimbabwe (ZW)
• Eastern Africa composed of Burundi (BI), Djibouti (DJ), Eritrea (ER), Ethiopia
(ET), Kenya (KE), Rwanda (RW), Somalia (SO), Tanzania (TZ) and Uganda (UG)
• Southern Africa composed of Botswana (BW), Lesotho (LS), Mozambique (MZ),
South Africa (ZA), Namibia (NA), Swaziland (SZ)
• Libya or Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (LY)
• Indian Ocean Islands consisting of the Comoros (KM), Madagascar (MG),
Mauritius (MU), Mayotte (YT), Reunion (RE), Seychelles (SC)
Western Africa consisting of Angola (AO), Benin (BY), Burkina Faso (BF),
Cameroon (CM), Cape Verde (CV), Central African Republic (CF), Chad (TD),
Congo (CG), Cote d'Ivoire (CI), Democratic Republic of Congo (CD), Equatorial
Guinea (GQ), Gabon (GA), Gambia (GM), Ghana (GH), Guinea (GN), Guinea

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Bissau,(GW), Liberia (LR), Mali (ML), Mauritania (MR), Niger (NE), Nigeria (NG),
Principe and Sao Tome (ST), Senegal (SN), Sierra Leone (SL) and Togo (TG).

3. Middle East
Bahrain (BH). Egypt (EG) Iran (lR) • Iraq (IQ) • Israel (IL) Jordan (JO) Kuwait (KW)
Lebanon (LB) Oman, Sultanate of (OM) Qatar (QA) Saudi Arabia (SA) Sudan (SD)
United Arab Emirates (AE) Syrian Arab Republic (SY)- Yemen, Republic of (YE)

3.1.3 Traffic Conference Area 3 (TC3)

Area 3 is composed of the wliole of Asia and the adjacent islands except the part
included already in Area 2; the East Indies, Australia, New Zealand the
neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean except those in TC1

1. South East Asia Sub-area (SEA)

Brunei Darussalam (BN) • Cambodia (KH) China excluding Hong Kong SAP. and
Macau SAP. (CN) Chinese Taipei (formerly Taiwan) (TW) Christmas Island (CX) •
Cocos (Keeling) Islands (CC) Guam (GU) Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region, China (HK) Indonesia (ID) ' Kazakhstan (KZ) Kyrgyzstan (KG) Laos (LA)
Macao Special Administrative Region, China (MO) Malaysia (MY) - Marshall Islands
(MH) Micronesia (FM) Mongolia (MN) Myanmar (KM) • Northern Mariana Islands
(MP) Palau (PW) Philippines (PH) Russia in Asia (XU) Singapore (SG) Tajikistan
(TJ) • Thailand (TH) • Timor Leste (TL)  Turkmenistan (TM)° Uzbekistan (UZ) Viet
Nam (VN)
2. South Asian Subcontinent Sub-area (SASC)
Afghanistan (AF). Maldives (MV) Bangladesh (BD) Nepal (NP) Bhutan (BT)
Pakistan (PK) India (IN) Sri Lanka (LK)
3.. Japan, Korea Sub-area
Japan (JP) Korea, Democratic Republic of (ICP) Korea, Republic of (KR)
4. South West Pacific Sub-area
merican Samoa (AS) Australia (AU)' Cook Islands (CK)- Fiji (FJ) " French
Polynesia (PF) Kiribati (KI) Nauru (NR) New Caledonia including Loyalty Islands
(NC) New Zealand (NZ)- Niue (NU) Papua New Guinea (PG) Samoa (WS) Solomon
Islands (SB) Tonga (TO)' Tuvalu (TV) Vanuatu (VU) Willis & Futuna Islands (WF)
and intermediate islands