Glossary

Accounting code is the three numeric code your airline has been assigned by IATA. This code is used for passenger ticket and systems. It is unique for your airline and used for accounting purposes in the Clearing House when settling accounts for flown/lifted coupons between airlines. Example: BA=125
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Annual General Meeting. ZMF members will meet at least once per year to get status of the projects, to vote on projects, budget, adjustments of the agreements, etc. and to meet other ARs and agree more concurrences. The Council or the members may call for an extra meeting during a year if necessary. This is called General Meeting.
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All New applicant’s will have a one time joining Fee joining fee of USD 730.
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AR is Authorised Representative.
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It means the Available Seat Kilometres that your airline offers to the community.
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ZED and MIBA Agreements describe the basic standards, rules, fares, etc., that all members have to apply. To get the ZED and/or MIBA agreements in effect for you, you have to contact other members, with whom you want to have an agreement according to these fares and rules. The agreements give you options that you have to negotiate with each member. This is done on the Concurrence Form (and on its Annexes if relevant) that you and the other member must sign when agreed. This will be the ZED or MIBA concurrence between you and that member airline.
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Computerised Reservation System
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Global Distribution System
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Multilateral Interline Business travel Agreement for airline company business travel. The option of fixed and discounted fares, standards, rules and conditions described in the Agreement and its Appendices form the base for members’ bilateral negotiations for exchange of discounted duty tickets and signing of the Concurrence Form and its Annexes.
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Member Service Centre. A real person, your ZED-MIBA Forum administrator, reachable at  and/or
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Neighbourhood travel agreements cover routes operated in the same geographical area. Usually, it covers routes operated in parallel by two airlines, but it can also cover all routes operated between the home countries of the airlines involved.
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S/A/F means Subsidiary, Affiliate or Franchise companies that members want to include in their concurrencies. The criteria are reflected in an Appendix to ZED-MIBA Forum Agreement, and have to be noted on the signed concurrence form. If included S/A/Fs are a scheduled passenger airline, the Member must report these on “My account” on the website.
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The Signature Documents is the legal and official signed documentation for ZED-MIBA Forum membership.
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Taxes/Fees/Charges. Any tax, fee or charge imposed by an airline (i.e. charges that are not remitted to third party government/airport authorities) must not be collected and shown on the ticket, and must not be collected from the ZED passenger by the transporting airline at time of check in, unless bilaterally agreed specifically for ID tickets.
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Zonal Employee Discount agreement for airline employees’ personal discounted travel. The fixed fares, standards, rules, conditions and options described in the Agreement and its Appendices form the base for members’ bilateral negotiations for exchange of employee discounted travel and signing of the Concurrence Form and its Annexes.
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ZED MIBA Advisory Council, or just the Council, consists of 8 members’ ARs appointed for two years. To become a Council member, a ZMF ZMAC pro-forma must be filled in and signed by a superior officer of the AR’s airline that will guarantee support for two years for the AR to work for ZMF.
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ZED MIBA Forum is the umbrella organisation of which you are a member, or to which you apply for membership.
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ZED MIBA Forum Special Project Funds. This is the one time joining fee paid by new appling members.
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The concept of ZED and MIBA is to charge fixed fares based on distance zones reflecting Ticketed Point Miles (TPM). See ZED and MIBA Guidelines.
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