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Business School in Aeronautical and Airport Management
ITAérea Aeronautical Business School is the first business school worldwide specialized in airport and aeronautical management in terms of number of students, headquarters and professors. It is a Corporate Partner of ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) and a member of its TRAINAIR PLUS network. In addition, it is an officially recognized Training Donor of ICAO.
ITAérea is an Accredited Training Partner of ACI WORLD (Airports Council International) and a strategic partner of UNITAR (United Nations) to promote executive education in the global air transport sector.
In Latin America, it is the leading provider of executive training in the region through its collaboration with ACI-LAC (Airports Council International – Latin America and Caribbean).
It also serves as a World Business Partner of ACI EUROPE, supporting the development of the airport sector across Europe. Thanks to a partnership with the Universidad a Distancia de Madrid (UDIMA), ITAérea offers university master’s degrees.
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ITAérea is an ICAO Corporate Partner, Training Donor and TRAINAIR PLUS
Specialized business school
ICAO Accreditation
Additionally, ITAérea formalized its participation in the ICAO Scholarship Program, offering 10 scholarships for professionals from emerging countries, reinforcing its commitment to developing global talent. This agreement also marks the beginning of ITAérea’s accreditation process as a Trainair Plus Partner, a key step to strengthen its international presence.
The agreement was signed by the CEO and Founder of ITAérea, José Ignacio Escudero, the Honorary President, Javier Gándara, and the Director of International Development, Àlex Baró. The Spanish delegation at the event included key representatives from the Spanish aviation sector:
- Benito Núñez, Secretary General of Air and Maritime Transport of MITMA.
- David Benito, Director General of Civil Aviation of MITMA.
- Enrique Maurer, Director General of ENAIRE, accompanied by Cristina García, Head of ENAIRE’s Campus Division.
- Elena Mayoral, Director General of Airports at Aena.
Then, in July 2025, ITAérea was accredited as a Corporate Partner of ICAO and became a member of TRAINAIR PLUS, a cooperative network of educational institutions and industry partners that contribute to the development and delivery of training through ICAO-recognized programs.
On September 23, 2025 in Montreal (Canada), ITAérea Aeronautical Business School strengthened its collaboration with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) by signing a joint declaration aimed at advancing training initiatives for aviation professionals at the highest international level.
The agreement was signed by José Ignacio Escudero, CEO of ITAérea, and Juan Carlos Salazar, Secretary General of ICAO, during the 42nd ICAO Assembly, which brought together the 193 Member States and leading international aviation organizations in Montreal.
This declaration reinforced ITAérea’s role as:
- Corporate Partner of ICAO.
- Member of the ICAO TRAINAIR PLUS network.
- Officially recognized Training Donor of ICAO.
These distinctions position ITAérea among the world’s leading aviation business schools, ensuring that its training programs are aligned with ICAO’s highest international standards. ITAérea becomes an ICAO-accredited training center through this agreement.
ACI WORLD Accredited Training Partner
Specialized business school
ACI Accreditation
The accreditation of ITAérea as a training partner of ACI WORLD represents the recognition and enhancement of the School’s good practices according to the highest quality standards in airport training, using the latest technologies and in line with the best practices in airport and aeronautical management.
Given the international nature of ACI WORLD and ITAérea, there are many synergies that these two institutions leverage for mutual benefit. For its part, ITAérea provides training in Portuguese, Spanish, and English worldwide, and ACI WORLD is the institution that groups and represents all airports in the world, being nearly 2000 in 176 countries.
With this global alliance, ITAérea has not only taken another step in its strategic projection but also offers all its students, present and future, a package of resources, international contacts, and opportunities that will help boost their careers to the highest level.
As seen in the image, the General Director of ITAérea, José Ignacio Escudero, received the recognition from ACI WORLD from its General Director, Luís Felipe de Oliveira, and the Director of Training, Dimitri Coll.
International alliances and agreements
ITAérea - UNITAR Alliance: United Nations Institute for Training and Research - UN
ITAérea Aeronautical Business School, CIFAL Mérida (International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Mérida) and UNITAR (the United Nations Institute for Training and Research) signed a trilateral agreement in November 2017 at the UN Palace of Nations in Geneva. The goal of this agreement is to develop a comprehensive training on air transport by fulfilling the sustainable development goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.
UNITAR joined a partnership whose historical background is a clear proof of the strong and fruitful relationship between ITAérea and CIFAL Mérida. The training programme for managers of the air transport sector is this partnership’s keystone since thanks to the agreement signed in 2013, 1808 professionals of the airport sector across Latin America have been trained so far.
The signing ceremony for the extension of the collaboration agreement between ITAérea Business School, UNITAR and CIFAL Mérida which was signed in Geneva took place on 16th May 2018 at the ITAérea headquarters in Madrid. 16 CIFAL centres in El Salvador, Quito, Atlanta, Curitiba, Argentina, Algeria, Madrid, Zurich, Belgium, Poland, South Korea, Shanghai, Philippines and Australia will have access to ITAerea’s online training and will be able to certify the skills acquired and therefore, the industry’s sustainable growth will be supported and every sector involved will benefit from it.
10 years after that historic year 2013, on November 6, 2023, the alliance between ITAérea, UNITAR, CIFAL Mérida was renewed through the signing in Miami of the collaboration extension agreement.
GLOBAL CHARACTER OF THE SCHOOL
Our International
Impact
Latin America
- 4 regional headquarters (Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Argentina).
- 7 commercial representations (Brazil, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Chile, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay).
- E-learning and in-person training in Spanish, English, and Portuguese.
- 75% of senior managers of airport managing bodies trained.
- Main training provider for ACI LAC.
Africa
- Training in Portuguese for airport managers in Angola.
- English training for air navigation executives from Burkina Faso.
- In-person training at the territorial locations of Equatorial Guinea, Cape Verde, and São Tomé and Príncipe.
Europe
- 6 headquarters in Spain (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Malaga, Alicante and Murcia).
Asia
- In-class training on air navigation thanks to our agreement with Jet One Academy.
- Exchange programme for Asian pilots and air traffic controllers.
- Territorial locations in Hong Kong, Dubai, Japan, and Saudi Arabia.
ITAérea Spirit
Interaction between students:
Students at all levels interact both ON SITE or online through ITAérea’s virtual platform. The different profiles among our students enrich a great group of professional fields with their knowledge and inherent skills but also connects directly a group of professionals with a common goal: the on-going improvement of their professional career.
Interaction teacher-student:
It is not an easy task to be successful in the air transport sector. Therefore, there is no one better than our teachers who are all senior managers and top experts in the field to share their knowledge and experience with our students. The total number of students trained by ITAérea in the past 3 years can be broken down into continents as follows:
IN THE SECTOR OF AIRPORT AND AERONAUTICAL MANAGEMENT
Our international customers
