{"id":41,"date":"2025-07-30T12:51:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.iaircanada.com\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:05:50","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iaircanada.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"615\" src=\"https:\/\/iaircanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cropped-yeray-sanchez-689835-unsplash-1-3-1024x615.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iaircanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cropped-yeray-sanchez-689835-unsplash-1-3-1024x615.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iaircanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cropped-yeray-sanchez-689835-unsplash-1-3-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iaircanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cropped-yeray-sanchez-689835-unsplash-1-3-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iaircanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cropped-yeray-sanchez-689835-unsplash-1-3-1536x922.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/iaircanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cropped-yeray-sanchez-689835-unsplash-1-3.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our Story<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The official name of<strong> IAIR<\/strong> is the<strong> International Association of IATA Retirees.<br><\/strong>We were incorporated in 2000 by a Canadian federal charter with two principal objectives:<br>1) to promote and defend the interests and benefits of <strong>IATA <\/strong>retirees; and<br>2) to foster communication between <strong>IATA <\/strong>retirees.<br>In 2012 in response to legislative changes, we officially became a <em>Not-for-Profit <\/em>corporation so as to protect our status with the Canadian federal government.<br>Today, we enjoy excellent relations with <strong>IATA <\/strong>through our participation on the <em>Montreal Pension Committee<\/em> and maintain contact with other national organizations with the intent of remaining current on defined benefit pension and healthcare insurance issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Story The official name of IAIR is the International Association of IATA Retirees.We were incorporated in 2000 by a Canadian federal charter with two principal objectives:1) to promote and defend the interests and benefits of IATA retirees; and2) to foster communication between IATA retirees.In 2012 in response to legislative changes, we officially became a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iaircanada.com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Story&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaircanada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaircanada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaircanada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaircanada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaircanada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/iaircanada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/iaircanada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaircanada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}