IATA Baggage Working Group (BWG) is established by the Airport Services Committee (ASC) to review and develop recommendations into a form that can be adopted by the ASC and eventually the Passenger Services Conference (PSC) as recommended practices or resolutions.
The majority of these changes occur from examination of RP1745, RP 1800 and other related Recommended Practices such as RP 1740C that addresses Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and its technological requirements.
The BWG is open to all IATA member airlines, ATA member airlines, ACI (Airports) members and the participants in the IATA Strategic Partnership Program with an interest in Baggage Management and related issues.
Baggage Working Group Meetings 2008
BWG18 has now been confirmed from 29-30 April, 2008 in Geneva to discuss ongoing Baggage Working Group activities as outlined in the work programme.
Members are encouraged to forward proposals for agenda items before 29 February, 2008 to Chris Miles.
Baggage Transfer Message (BTM) Contact list
At a 2002 BWG meeting, it was agreed that a Contact List to update BTM (mandatory message) addresses should be made available to all BWG members. You will find the latest BTM Contact List on the BWG private site. For corrections and updates, please contact Chris Miles.
IATA Member Airlines have to maintain an updated a list of the addresses to load their tables, thus ensuring they meet the mandate. Failing to comply might result in receiving an IATA Standards Irregularity Notice.