Air Canada president and CEO Calin Rovinescu assumed his role as chairman of the IATA board of governors Tuesday as the organization announced that its 2015 annual meeting will be held in Miami.

A group of airlines chiefs, including IAG CEO Willie Walsh, is calling for a review of how air transport communications and IT specialist SITA is structured and governed.

Recommendations from an IATA task force created to find options for better global tracking of airliners will not be mandatory and may not be “one size fits all,” the organization’s head of safety and flight operations said Tuesday.

Bombardier Aerospace’s president and COO believes the company will soon have a better understanding of the possible cause of the engine failure that occurred May 29 on the CSeries flight test aircraft FTV1 during ground testing at Bombardier’s Mirabel, Quebec, facility.

Emirates president Tim Clark, whose airline operates the world’s largest fleet of Boeing 777s with 136 of the type, has questioned moves to potentially change airliner flight tracking in the wake of the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777,which disappeared March 8 while operating flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, until more is known about what happened to the aircraft.

The commercial airline industry needs a global mindset to unlock its full future potential, the head of IATA said in his opening address Monday at the organization’s 70th annual meeting in Doha.

IATA has announced three new pilot programs to test its New Distribution Capability (NDC) standard, with Aeroflot, Aer Lingus, Qatar Airways and JR Technologies among those participating.

The government of Venezuela “takes the top prize for willful irresponsibility,” for wrongly withholding some $4 billion of airline funds, IATA’s top executive said Monday.