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Mumbai , Oct. 7

QATAR Airways has passed the new International Air Transport Associations (IATA) Operational Safety Audit (IOSA), with 100 per cent compliance.

A company release quoting the Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer, Mr Akbar Al Baker, said: "We are the first airline to be audited by the IOSA system, and have passed with a 100 per cent satisfactory record."

IOSA is a newly implemented internationally recognised system, set up to standardise and rationalise a number of safety and security audits carried out by individual airlines for code sharing purposes, it said.

The successful audit makes Qatar Airways compliant with both the US air safety regulations (FAA) and European air safety regulations (Jarops), and qualifies it for code sharing agreements with other airlines without having to undergo a further audit, the statement said.

The audit evaluated the airline's flight and ground operations, aircraft engineering and maintenance, operational security, cabin operations, and corporate organisation and management systems.

Qatar Airways is currently in code sharing agreements with six airlines in Europe and West Asia, and it is considering further code shares in order to increase the number of destinations it serves, the statement said.

IATA brings together 280 airlines worldwide. Flights by these airlines comprise over 95 per cent of all international scheduled air traffic.

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