IATA plans to kick out several members at the end of next month for failing to pass quality control checks required under the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) program.

IATA director general and CEO Giovanni Bisignani says the association is now going through the audit reports of 21 members to make a final determination on whether they have in place sufficient remedies to pass IOSA. Bisignani expects several carriers, and perhaps more than 10, will have their IATA membership terminated for failing to complete this process by 31 March.

The 31 March deadline marks the last phase of IATA’s implementation of IOSA as a requirement for membership. IATA members had until 31 December 2006 to hire one of seven independent firms licensed by IATA to carry out the audits. All audits were required to be completed by 31 December 2007 but members had another year, until 31 December 2008, to complete the findings and put in place all remedial actions required by the auditors.

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