The Multilateral Interline Traffic Agreements (MITA) Manual contains the passenger and cargo Interline Agreements which spell out the basic rules airlines follow when collecting money and issuing documents for carriage on each others services. View the Table of Contents (PDF).

Somon Air is the first private airline in Tajikistan headquartered in Dushanbe^[2] and based at Dushanbe International Airport.

History[edit]

The airline started operating on 5 February 2008 with regular flights to Moscow. Somon Air also serves as the official carrier of President of the Republic of Tajikistan and other Tajikistan high-ranking officials.^[3][4] Since its formation, Somon Air has been primarily focused on passenger service and transportation to Eastern Europe and other locations.^[3][4]} Most flights to international destinations operate from Dushanbe.^[3][4]

In early August 2009, Somon Air joined IATA’s (International Air Transport Association) IATA Billing and Settlement Plan.^[3][4] As of January 2013, the airline participates in 14 BSP countries. BSP is a settlement system designed to simplify the selling, reporting and remitting procedures between passenger sales agents and airlines globally.^[4] In April 2013, Somon Air jointed the IATA Multilateral Interline Traffic Agreement (MITA). The IATA Multilateral Interline Traffic Agreement (MITA) is an agreement where passengers and cargo use a standard traffic document on various transportation modes to reach the final destination on a particular routing.^[3]

In June 2013, Somon Air became the member of IATA Clearing House which provides a service for settling of interline accounts, airline-associated companies and travel partners.^[3][4]

In September 2017, Somon Air obtained the IATA membership^[3][4] and is working on signing interline agreements with some of major airlines from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe and Asia.^[3]

In July 2019, Somon Air opened an aviation training center for aviation specialists at its headquarters in Dushanbe.

In 2019, the Chief Executive Officer of Somon Air Thomas W. Hallam II became a member of the Nominating Committee of International Air Transport Association (IATA).

On December, 18 Somon Air received the award 'Brand of the Year 2019’ bestowed by the Republic of Tajikistan.

Destinations[edit]

Somon Air flies to following destinations as of January 2020:^[1]

Fleet[edit]

Current fleet[edit]

The Somon Air fleet comprises the following aircraft (as of November 2019):^[10]

New armor items and weaponsHint: The Christmas Island is shrouded in mystery so you can't see it on the world map. Additional armor set for each character. It was not possible to load an old save after patching, if thecharacter in the old save had an item in their hand (held by the mousepointer) at the time the save occurred. Characters over lvl 61 were unable to create game channels (only ableto join them). To begin your journey to it, find and speak to the Kobold in Thylysium, then sail to the port he unlocks.Fixes:. Sacred 2 patch 2.12 2.34.

Fleet development[edit]

Somon Air signed a memorandum of understanding to purchase a Boeing 787-8 at the 2018 Dubai Air Show for further fleet development.^[11] This has not yet been taken up. The company still hopes to launch wide-body flights this year with a 767-300ER.^[12][13] The airline is considering the purchase of four Embraer 190-E2, to replace older Boeing 737 Classic aircraft. The airline planned to commence service of the new Embraers by the end of 2018, but by September 2019 there had been no further announcement.^[14] In November, 2019 Somon Air signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Airbus group of companies under which the airline intends to acquire helicopters and the latest Airbus family aircraft from direct manufacturer. ^[15]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'Timetable'. www.somonair.com. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
2. ^'Main.' Somon Air. Retrieved on 27 February 2012. 'Contacts: 40, Titova Str. Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 734012 ' - Russian: '734012, Таджикистан, Душанбе, ул. Титова, 40'
3. ^ ^abcdefghNews, Route (19 September 2018). 'How Somon Air is reaching new peaks'. Route News. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
4. ^ ^abcdefgBaldwin, Jaimie (25 March 2018). 'Somon Air — Leading the Way in Tajikistan'. Airways Magazine. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
5. ^ ^abcdefgSomon destinations mentioned
6. ^'Somon Air suspends Urumqi service in Feb 2020'. Routesonline. 2 February 2020.
7. ^'Somon Air to launch Dushanbe-Delhi service from Dec-2019'. CAPA. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
8. ^'Tajik Air resumes its flights to India's New Delhi, Somon Air to fly there from December 1st – C.A.A.N'. caan.asia. 27 November 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
9. ^ ^abLiu, Jim (15 July 2019). 'Somon Air expands Khudzhand network in S19'. Routesonline. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
10. ^'Global Airline Guide 2016 (Part Two)'. Airliner World (November 2016): 33.
11. ^'Новости Авиакомпания Somon Air заказала новый самолет Boeing 787'. ato.ru. 20 November 2017.
12. ^'Somon Air Fleet Details and History'.
13. ^'How Somon Air is reaching new peaks'. 19 September 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
14. ^'Авиакомпания Somon Air добавит в парк четыре самолета Embraer E190-E2'. ato.ru. 4 March 2018.
15. ^https://www.somonair.com/index.php/home/news_content/58

External links[edit]

Media related to Somon Air at Wikimedia Commons

Introduction to Airfares and Air Ticketing

Assignment A

1. Discuss about Freedom of air with example.

2. Discuss history of IATA.

3. Discuss the practice of locating airports and cities on the world map

4. Discuss about GMT Table.

5. Discuss in detail about IATA areas of the world.

6. What do you know about phonetic codes? Discuss.

7. What do you understand by ICAO airline designator?

8. Explain Multi-hop or Multi-leg.

Assignment B
CASE STUDY:

UFTAA AND TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
Travel industry is a key employer of tourism industry and it employs qualified and trained personnel for handling varied jobs. As such travel industry is facing the acute shortage of employable personnel. One of the challenges before the global travel industry is to ensure the supply of quality human resources. Travel agencies and tour operators used to recruit the people without training and provided them on-the-job training to handle the booking or operations of travel business. The job requirements have undergone changes with the change in the structure of travel business today. One of the important contributions of UFTAA, being a global representative of travel agency, customized the courseware for the professionals or novice to be attracted towards the course and career. It has become extremely successful ever since the IATA-UFTAA courses have been launched. It has catered the needs of supply of human resources across the countries with the distance and regular mode of the programmes.

UFTAA is a world body representing the travel agencies and tourism industry. It effectively represents travel agents’ and tour operators’ views on both inbound and outbound travel by continuous dialogue and consultation with other international organizations. It seeks to encourage travel among people of all nations and to support the freedom of travel throughout the world.
UFTAA is dedicated to Education and Training activities with the help of its dedicated Educational Academy. It has an active partnership with the IATA/UFTAA Training Programme. It includes a four-level educational programme. The new courses also include Marketing and Management education. The IATA/UFTAA programme is jointly offered and it is the most complete travel and tourism training programme designed professional to build career in the travel and tourism industry or upgrade professional competence. The qualifications offered are recognized under the terms of the IATA Resolutions applicable to

IATA’s accreditation of travel agents.
The IATA/UFTAA International Travel Agents Training Program was launched in 1972 to meet the growing demands for well trained staff in Travel Industry. It is now available almost all over the world. The IATA/UFTAA Diploma has become a hallmark in the travel industry. It is known for its quality standards in training. It has gained worldwide recognition and acceptance as a high quality training programmes with exhaustive and need-based modules.
The IATA/UFTAA International Cargo Agents Training Program was launched in 1977 to meet the growing demands for trained staff in cargo agencies. The IATA/FIATA International Cargo Agents Diploma has gained worldwide industry recognition as a quality qualification.

The IATA/UFTAA and the IATA/FIATA programmes are basically designed for promoting self study courses. At the same time, it is also offered as regular courses by Authorized Training Centers across the world. Two type of courses namely Foundation & Consultant courses are conducted by IATA/UFTA.

The IATA/UFTAA’s Training and Development Institute trains more than 35,000 aviation professionals. More than 200 courses are developed around IATA’s areas of expertise and commitment to promoting industry standards worldwide. These are the facilities of the
IATA/UFTAA.
12 State-of-the-Art training centers with over 200 IATA Instructors Training delivered in the classroom, on-site and via distance learning Worldwide locations through IATA Global Training Partners Instruction in English, French, Spanish and Mandarin.

Assignment C
Question
Q.No 1: What was the need for the UFTAA to take the lead role in crafting the exclusive courses for travel personnel?

Q.No 2: How these courses are offered across the centers?

Q.No 3: What are the facilities of the centers for offering?

A ............. is an agreement which two nations sign to allow international commercial air transport services between their territories.
bilateral air transport agreement
multilateral air transport agreement
A critical management function
(D): Memoranda of Understanding (MoU)

....... is the highest and largest world body representing the travel agency.
INTACH
UFTAA
ITPO
(D): ASTA

The organizational structure of ........ consists of the General Assembly and Board of Directors
INTACH
UFTAA
ITPO
(D): ASTA

The ........... is an agreement whereby passengers and cargo use a standard traffic document (i.e. passenger ticket or air waybill) to travel on various modes of transport involved in a routing in order to reach a final destination.
Air fare
bilateral air transport agreement
Memoranda of Understanding (MoU)
(D): Multilateral Interline Traffic Agreements (MITA)

The .............. combines the third and fourth freedoms and is the right to carry passengers or cargo from a second country to a third country by stopping in one's own country.
first freedom
second freedom
third freedom
(D): unofficial sixth freedom

....... maintains the standards for aircraft registration ('tail numbers'), including the alphanumeric codes that identify the country of registration.
IATA
UFTAA
PATA
(D): ICAO

The fifth freedom allows an airline to carry ......... between foreign countries asc a part of services connecting the airline's own country.
Inventory
Merchandise
revenue traffic
(D): Catalogue

............. is an international convention which regulates liability for international carriage of persons, luggage, or goods performed by aircraft for reward.
Warsaw Convention
(B): Multilateral Interline Traffic Agreements (MITA)
Chicago Convention
(D): bilateral air transport agreement

......... is the transport of goods or passengers between two points in the same country by a vessel or an aircraft registered in another country.
Freedom of air
Sales Promotion
Storage
(D): Cabotage

The ..... mission is to be an international forum where matters affecting the world travel industry are addressed.
INTACH's
UFTAA’s
ASTA's
(D): PATA's

IATA has divided the world into three areas called ............ for the purpose of regulations.
IATA Traffic Conference Areas
IATA Conference Areas
IATA Traffic Areas
(D): IATA No entry Areas

The Sun is above Greenwich Meridian line at 12 pm in.......
North America

Spain

Le meridian

(D): Greenwich

The Eastern and the Western Hemisphere which are the two parts of the world as per the elementary geography is further divided by ........ into 3 traffic conference areas called IATA Areas.
PATA
IATA
UFTAA
(D): Greenwich Meridian

When Sun shifts from Greenwich Meridian towards west, the time changes by .............. degree.
2
1
5
(D): 8

The time determined according to the longitude and meridian of a particular place according to the Greenwich Mean Time is known as............
Local Mean Time (L.M.T)

Merchandise
Mean Time (L.M.T)
(D): Zonal Standard Time (Z.S.T)

The Local Standard Time of various cities of India are also available in an....... .
Inventory
Local Mean Time (L.M.T)
Ephemeris
(D): SKUs

The time decided for a particular place is known as ..........
(A): Time zone
(B): Mean Time (L.M.T)

(C) Greenwich Mean Time (G.M.T)
(D): Local Mean Time (L.M.T)

........... is composed of the whole of Asia and the adjacent islands except the part included already in Area 2.
Traffic Area (TA)
Traffic Conference Area 1(TC1)
Traffic Conference Area 2 (TC2)
(D): Traffic Conference Area 3 (TC3)

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the .......... at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London.
mean solar time
mean lunar time
peak time
(D): time zone

1 degree is equal to ....... minutes.
7
6
4
(D): 9

Specific days that the airlines won’t give travelers special rates or promotional fares because of the high demand for flights is termed as a-
Blackout day
Code share
Standby fare
(D): Walk-up fare

When travelers buy the ticket from the country they are leaving is termed as – Solve by www.solvezone.in contact for more at 8882309876
Seat pitch
Split ticketing
Situated Out, Ticketed Out (SOTO)
(D): Situated In, Ticketed In (SITI)

............ is a type of character encoding that transmits telegraphic information using rhythm.
Morse code
spelling alphabet
ITU radiotelephonic alphabet
(D): phonetic alphabets

The ........... is a code assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization to aircraft operating agencies, aeronautical authorities, and services.
(A): ICAO airline designator
(B): airline
(C): Designators
(D): PATA airline designators

.......... are used to identify an airline for all commercial purposes, including reservations, timetables, tickets, tariffs, air waybills, and in airline interline telecommunications.
Pilots
Mechanic
Designators
(D): Customer executive

........... , are two-character codes assigned by the IATA to the world's airlines in accordance with the provisions of IATA Resolution 762.
airline designators
ICAO airline designators
IATA airline designators
(D): PATA airline designators

........ airport code, a four-letter code which is used by air-traffic control systems and for airports that do not have an IATA airport code
ACIO
ICAO
PATA
(D): IATA

........ airport code, a three-letter code which is used in passenger reservation, ticketing, and baggage-handling systems.
IATA
PATA
ICAO
(D): UFTAA

The ............. is a unique 3 letter code used in aviation and also in logistics to identify an airport.
UFTAA Location Identifier
PATA Location Identifier
IATA Location Identifier
(D): ICAO Location Identifier

............... refers to the different price level for the different allotment of seats for each respective class.
Phonetic codes
Hotel codes
Airline codes
(D): Booking class

The ........... is the world's leading source of Passport, Visa and Health documentation regulations for passengers.
Travel Information Manual (TIM)
total air temperature
Ticket Issuance
(D): Web Fare

A fare, which carries a penalty for any changes or cancellations once the ticket has been issued is termed as .............
Saturday Night Stay
Web Fare
Penalty Fare
(D): Meeting monetary requirements

............ is the distance between departure airports using an open-jaw ticket.
Customer satisfaction
Surface sector
Warehouses
(D): Storage

........... is the smallest amount of time that is allowed to change planes at an airport.
Minimum connecting time
Open-jaw
Non-stop flight
(D): Offline connection

............ is when customs and immigration clearance for a destination is made available prior to departure.
No Clearance
Post-Clearance
Pre-Clearance
(D): All Clearance

............ is a flight that can make stopovers prior to its destination, but passengers do not disembark.
Direct Flight
shared airline designator
Flag Carrier
(D): Flight Number

............ is a unique code for each reservation made on a global airline reservation system.
PAX
SAD
shared airline designator
(D): Passenger Name Record (PNR)

.......... is the time taken between an aircraft landing and taking off.
Zulu
UTC
Transit time
(D): Turnaround

SAD - Is the code for a...........
sting airline designator
stout airline designator
shared airline designator
(D): small airline designator

A flight operated by more than one airline but identified by the designator and flight number of only one of them is termed as ............
Landside
Flight Number
Flag Carrier
(D): Funnel Flight