IATA and three OEMs reach agreement on data generated by modern airliners

The global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has announced that, acting on behalf of its members, it had agreed key principles for access to, and use of, aircraft operational data (AOD), with three major aerospace original-equipment manufacturers (OEMs). IATA’s partners in the agreement are two airliner OEMs, Europe-based Airbus and Brazil-based Embraer, and one aeroengine OEM, UK-based Rolls-Royce. Modern airliners and aeroengines can monitor their own performance, as they fly, and transmit that data to ground stations operated by their OEMs. This is what is meant by AOD.