ABSTRACT
Scheduled Air Transportation is one of the main targets of national and international terrorist organizations. Since safety and security are the bases of the very existence of scheduled aviation as a worldwide international air transport system, it is only natural that International Air Transport Association (IATA), the association of scheduled airlines, has been and is presently in the forefront of initiating, coordinating and executing actions on an international basis in the field of airline security, with a view to safeguarding the very existence of its members — individually as well as a group. The regrettable fact is that despite IATA’s efforts air terrorism continues to develop both in scope, viciousness and intensity. Furthermore, it is increasing its technical sophistication through cooperation between various terrorist and anarchistic organizations on an international scale.
