Definiton of “Europe” for promo awards?
 

See IATA's website - the process how it can be found for the future reference is here.

Now you see Israel is listed there. You asked where this is stated, and i gave you an example.

For a full listing, see IATA Phraseology overview. Many IATA reports contain such table.

The "logic" behind this is the Israeli-Arab conflict. Not much different from, for example, the situation in the basket ball Euroleague that includes israeli teams (and many other sports as well).

Geography obviously only played a subordinate role whan that list was drawn up.

Accepting the Urals-Caspian-Caucasus as the boundary between Europe and Asia, then Armenia is definitely not in Europe. Since it is on the list anyway, that begs the question why Georgia is not?

Turkey can least claim a toehold, but including a bunch of North African countries (but not Egypt?) is plainly ridiculous. Last time they were anywhere near European was when Rome sacked Carthage and imposed its rule.

And what happened to Lichtenstein, Andorra, Monaco and San Marino?

Johan

I would have thought that was obvious!

They - along with the Vatican City - are the only countries not to have got around to building an airport yet.

Actually, I would say that a good chunk of North Africa was "European" until July 4th 1962. ;)

I think that if you give yourself two minutes to think about it and think about what the first "A" in IATA stands for, you might have your answer...

AF is free to do whatever they want about this topic ..... until a country force them to do so !!

This one is a good example

I would be interested to know what airports West Russia contains, i.e. how far East you can go. For booking ordinary rewards, this would be interesting. However, it is a major negative that Aeroflot award flights are now loaded with extra taxes and charges (presumably YQ).

my bet is only for st petersburg and moscow airports

Previously I was able to book Samara (KUF) for normal European rates. A round trip was 25,000 miles, with a smattering of taxes. Now, ticket prices have come down sharply and award ticket bogus surcharges have gone up sharply.

If possessing an airport is a requirement for a country to be a part of Europe, then the continent would not even have existed in 1900.

Although bit harder to define than some other continents, it should be pretty evident to most what Europe means in a geographic sense. IATA obviously lacks geographic sense, and stretching an accepted definition to suit its own unclear purposes doesn't help.

Besides, both Liechtenstein (ICAO:LSXB) and Monaco (IATA: MCM, ICAO:LNMC) have officially recognized heliports ( Collins English Dictionary: an airport for helicopters)

II appreciate your generosity, but decided to give myself ten, just in case I'm not the brightest spark on this forum.

I think "A" stands for "Air". I strongly suspect that all four countries have plenty of air, and that some of their inhabitants not only breathe that air, but on occasion travel by air as well. Doesn't really have much to do with whether they are in Europe or not.

Johan

In a geographic sense that's very straightforward: as far east as the Urals. So Perm would qualify, whereas Yekaterinburg would not.

Johan