Tip Line

Airline Ambassadors International (AAI) has led global airline industry awareness for Trafficking in Persons (TIP) since 2009 and has developed the first industry specific training. AAI provides for vulnerable communities by leveraging partnerships with the airline industry and is comprised of over 16,000 airline employees who "travel to make a difference”.

AAI is still the only organization conducting live Counter-Trafficking in Persons (C-TIP) Training at airports. As of November 2017, AAI has conducted 65 C-TIP Trainings that now link over 6,000 front line professionals with law enforcement. As each flight attendant interacts with a minimum of 500 passengers per week, AAI C-TIP trainees are, so far, capable of monitoring over 156,000,000 passengers per year! If all 200,000 Members from the U.S. based Association of Professional Flight Attendants alone were trained, they would be capable of monitoring over 5.2 billion passengers. According to ICAO, 3.7 billion passengers flew in 2016.

The key goal of training is reporting – and data sharing. To make its trainings effective, AAI

developed the “TIP Line” app to swiftly communicate to users featuring end-to-end, peer-to-peer

anonymized communication capabilities with data rich information. Trained airline professionals

can now contribute high quality threat information for time critical situation functionality.

Developed by the following students of Georgia Tech as part of their Junior Design Initiative:

Heather Schirra, William Cheng, Kenta Kawaguchi, Kyle Al-Shafei, and Micah Jo.