The International Air Transport Association (IATA) published the data on safety performance for 2021 within the framework of the industry of commercial airlines presenting large progress when compared to 2020, as well as a look back to the period 2017-2021.

Some of the most important are:

•    decrease of overall number of incidents, levels of all incidents and fatalities
•    IATA members compliant with standard verified through IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) did not record any accident with fatal income 
•    for the first time in the last 15 years, there were no accidents at the runway 

IATA is the International Air Transport Association and it represents approximately 290 airlines that constitute 83 percent of global air transport.

The association was established on 19 April 1945 in Havana, Cuba, and it represents the leading association for cooperation between airlines in promoting secure, reliable, safe and economical air services – for the benefit of all customers around the world. The industry of international scheduled air transport grew more than 100 times when compared to the levels from 1945. A small number of industries can follow the dynamics of such growth that would be pretty less spectacular without standards, practices and procedures developed within the IATA framework. 

Following the establishment, IATA had 57 members from 31 countries, mostly from Europe and North America. Today it has approximately 290 members from 120 countries worldwide.

The IATA mission is to represent, lead and serve to the aviation industry.

The IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) programme is the internationally recognised and accepted evaluation system, designed for assessment of operational management and system of control of airlines. 

The IOSA develops standard comparable at the global basis, thus enabling and maximising joint utilisation of auditory reports. This saved more than 6.400 excessive audits to the aviation industry and it continues to lead to huge savings for airlines that participate in the IOSA standardisation.

All the IATA members meet IOSA standard and they must remain standardised in order to keep the IATA membership.

More information and data can be found on the following links: 

https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2022-releases/2022-03-02-01/

https://www.iata.org/en/iata-repository/pressroom/fact-sheets/fact-sheet---safety/