Shao Yong Liu

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is a trade association that represents around 300 airlines, accounting for 83% of total air traffic. The private company is based in Montreal, CA, and has a global presence of subsidiaries in several regions. The Canadian company provides carriers with a single dataset of airline sales, market, and itinerary data through its DDS. This data is aggregated from multiple sources, including data contributed by carriers, the Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP) transactions, and ARCs Area Settlement Plan (ASP) transactions, making it the most comprehensive and accurate of its kind. IATA supports many areas of aviation activity and helps formulate industry policy on critical aviation issues. William Matthew Walsh has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

China Southern Air Holding Co. is a state-owned air transportation group in China. It specializes in the air transportation business with passenger and cargo agencies, import and export trading, financing, construction and development and media and advertising. The company was founded on October 11, 2002 and is headquartered in Guangdong, China.

Civil Aviation Administration of China oversees civil aviation in mainland China. The company also acts as an airline and provides services throughout China. It also offers online investigation & application, intelligence inquiry, human affairs information, emergency management and several other services. The company was founded on November 2, 1949 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.