How does OAX relate to IATA standards?
IATA has done an excellent job standardizing data interchange between airlines, GDS and airports in a lot of domains: schedule timetable, airport movements, etc. However, some airline fields, such as crew management, have remained uncovered, mostly because in these domains, airlines exchange little information between them. Yet, in these domains, there is a wealth of information that must be shared within the airlines, with their partners, with their vendors or service providers, or with official authorities. This is uncovered by IATA and is being covered by OAX. When OAX is distributing data that make sense for IATA (for example, flight legs within pairings), OAX has aligned on IATA vocabulary and IATA standard data formats. In addition, some SOAX open-source are actually fully IATA focused: for example, SOAX offers an IATA SSIM Chapter 6 parser.
