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Hand carry on Etihad Airways

Etihad is our default when a shipment starts in Abu Dhabi, and frequently the better choice for the United States, because Abu Dhabi operates a US preclearance facility.

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One person beats a parcel networkon Etihad Airways

The freight chain is not slow because aircraft are slow, it is slow because a consignment waits at every handover. A courier removes the queues, not the kilometres.

OnBoard CourierOne person. One seat. One signature.

CollectedIn the cabin Delivered in on Etihad Airways, same day or next morning

Conventional air freightA parcel in a system, every handover is a queue.

Drop-offAcceptance cut-off Build-upFlight Break-downCustoms Delivered, day 3 to 5

0h24h48h72h96h+

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Tell us what has to fly. We answer with a flight and a price.

Five short questions. A dispatcher replies with a named departure, the delivery hour and one fixed price, day and night.

One named courier from collection to signature
Customs cleared in person on arrival
Licensed UAE company, proper VAT invoices

Why Etihad Airways matters for a hand-carry

A courier flying Etihad to the USA clears American immigration and customs in Abu Dhabi before boarding and arrives at JFK, Chicago or Washington as a domestic passenger. On a deadline that is worth more than a marginally faster aircraft: no immigration queue, no secondary inspection line, straight out of the terminal to the recipient. For consignments originating in Mussafah, KIZAD, Ruwais or the offshore energy sector, AUH is also simply closer than Dubai.

US preclearance in Abu Dhabi, arrive stateside as a domestic passenger
Closest hub for Abu Dhabi, Mussafah, KIZAD and Ruwais pick-ups
Strong subcontinent, Europe and North America frequency
Quieter terminals mean faster airside movement at peak times
Useful alternative when DXB departures are full

220countries and territories on the desk

500+airports a courier can be booked into

15 minfrom your message to a firm price

24/7the operations centre is awake

Three departure boards, one desk: Emirates, flydubai and Etihad for on Etihad Airways

A hand-carry is only as fast as the next departure. The desk watches three boards at once and books the one that lands first, then holds the one that leaves next.

Emirates

The night bank out of Terminal 3

Between one and four in the morning Emirates pushes back a wave of widebodies from Terminal 3 that reach Europe before the first meeting and Asia by the afternoon. For on Etihad Airways that wave is the reason a courier confirmed at eight in the evening is still delivering the next day.

Widebody only, non-stop to 140 plus cities

flydubai

The short sectors, several times a day

From Terminal 2 flydubai runs the one to five hour sectors: the Caucasus, Central Asia, East Africa, the Balkans, the subcontinent. Where a widebody leaves once a day, flydubai often leaves three times, which turns a missed slot into a ninety minute delay rather than a lost day.

Frequency is the fallback

Etihad

Abu Dhabi as the second runway

Ninety minutes down the E11, Etihad leaves from Zayed International with its own bank of departures and, for the United States, immigration cleared before boarding. When the Dubai departure for on Etihad Airways is gone, the desk looks at Abu Dhabi before it looks at tomorrow.

US preclearance at AUH

The desk holds no allegiance to a carrier. The booking goes to whichever board puts a courier at on Etihad Airways first, at a fare the quote can carry.

on Etihad Airways: every hour it waits is an hour it is not moving.

Five questions, one fixed price, a named flight. The desk answers within 15 minutes, day and night, and you decide.

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Etihad Airways in the network the desk measures

Computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics. The desk holds departure schedules for 571 airports, and for the EY code that yields 107 city pairs across 103 of them. It is a measured sample of the published timetable and not the whole of it. Frequencies move with the season, and a quote is priced on the flights running the day you ask.

103airports on this carrier

59countries and territories reached

107scheduled city pairs held

319average daily flights across them

The schedule the desk holds carries the EY code on 107 city pairs, reaching 103 airports in 59 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by Etihad Airways and some are sold under its code and flown by a partner, which is how the published timetable states it and how a booking has to be read. 48.5 per cent of those airports sit on Asian time zones, and the next largest block is on European time zones.

The longest sector held for the carrier is Atlanta (ATL) to Abu Dhabi (AUH) at about 12,242 km, and the shortest is Abu Dhabi (AUH) to Doha (DOH) at about 321 km. 38.3 per cent of the network is long haul, 41 of the 107 pairs running past 5,000 km. That is the range at which a courier flies through the night and clears customs on the morning of the second calendar day. The airport that appears most often on those pairs is Abu Dhabi (AUH), on 99 of them, which is 92.5 per cent of everything held under this code.

The thickest sector under the code is Madrid (MAD) to Porto (OPO) at about 13 movements a day, which across a full day is roughly one every 1.8 hours. On a sector at that cadence a missed departure costs a wait rather than a night. That sector does not touch Abu Dhabi (AUH), the airport this code is booked through most often, so the desk treats it as a seat sold under the code rather than flown by the carrier, and confirms the operating airline before it quotes. 27 of the 107 pairs run four or more times a day and 23 run once a day or less. The second figure is the one that matters when a consignment leaves the factory late, because on those sectors the desk will quote a different carrier rather than promise an hour it cannot hold. After Abu Dhabi (AUH) the code leans on Madrid (MAD) on 7, Bogotá (BOG) on 3, Zurich (ZRH) on 2 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.

The sectors that carry the EY code most often

From	To	Country	Flights a day	km	Open it
Madrid MAD	Porto OPO	Portugal	13	438	plan this
Madrid MAD	Milan MXP	Italy	11.4	1,149	the pair page
Brussels BRU	Madrid MAD	Spain	10.6	1,314	the pair page
Abu Dhabi AUH	Kochi COK	India	10	2,795	the pair page
Abu Dhabi AUH	Doha DOH	Qatar	9.9	321	the pair page
Bogotá BOG	Madrid MAD	Spain	9.4	8,031	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Cairo CAI	Egypt	9.3	2,378	the pair page
Madrid MAD	Zurich ZRH	Switzerland	8.6	1,239	the pair page
Abu Dhabi AUH	Manama BAH	Bahrain	8.2	452	the pair page
Abu Dhabi AUH	Mumbai BOM	India	8	1,971	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Chennai MAA	India	7.4	2,966	the pair page
Abu Dhabi AUH	Tel Aviv Yafo TLV	Israel	6.6	2,107	the pair page
Abu Dhabi AUH	Bangalore BLR	India	6.4	2,723	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Trivandrum TRV	India	5.9	2,955	the pair page
Amman AMM	Abu Dhabi AUH	the United Arab Emirates	5.7	1,998	the pair page
Abu Dhabi AUH	Colombo CMB	Sri Lanka	5.6	3,300	plan this

The 16 sectors the EY code appears on most often, out of 107. Flights a day is the average daily scheduled movement on the busier of the two directions, as held on 2026-09-07. The schedule lists a code against a sector whether the carrier operates it or sells it, so read this as where the code can be booked. Distances are great circle, computed from the published coordinates of the two airports.

Where EY meets the UAE gateways

Etihad Airways is one of the carriers a courier can board without leaving the Emirates. The desk holds 99 pairs under this code touching Abu Dhabi (AUH), so a booking can start at a UAE counter and stay on one ticket to the delivery city.

UAE airport	To	Country	Flights a day	km	Open it
Abu Dhabi AUH	Kochi COK	India	10	2,795	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Doha DOH	Qatar	9.9	321	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Cairo CAI	Egypt	9.3	2,378	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Manama BAH	Bahrain	8.2	452	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Mumbai BOM	India	8	1,971	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Chennai MAA	India	7.4	2,966	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Tel Aviv Yafo TLV	Israel	6.6	2,107	plan this
Abu Dhabi AUH	Bangalore BLR	India	6.4	2,723	plan this

Night restrictions on the airports the EY code uses

A hand carry is bought for the hours it saves, and an airport that will not take a movement after a certain hour can spend those hours back. 20 of the 103 airports this code is booked through carry a restriction the desk holds in writing, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, and the desk confirms the position with the airport or the carrier before it books.

Abu Dhabi (AUH), night operations. Operates around the clock with a strong overnight bank.
Madrid (MAD), night operations. Operates around the clock. Night departures to the Americas are routine.
Brussels (BRU), night restrictions. Night movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local are limited by quota and noise rules.
Zurich (ZRH), night restrictions. Scheduled movements end at 23:00 local, with delayed flights permitted until 23:30. Nothing scheduled before 06:00.
Paris (CDG), night restrictions. Scheduled movements between midnight and 05:00 local are limited to a fixed annual number of slots.
Seoul (ICN), night operations. Operates around the clock.

Published lanes that carry the EY code

The site publishes a page for 346 courier lanes. Etihad Airways appears in the schedule on 32 of them, and the one it flies most is Madrid to Bogota at about 9.4 movements a day. That overlap is the honest test of whether a carrier is useful to this desk rather than merely famous.

Madrid to Bogota, about 9.4 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 8,031 km.
Mumbai to Abu Dhabi, about 8 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 1,971 km.
Abu Dhabi to Bangalore, about 6.4 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 2,723 km.
Abu Dhabi to Colombo, about 5.6 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 3,300 km.
Delhi to Abu Dhabi, about 5.2 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 2,277 km.
Abu Dhabi to Hyderabad, about 5 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 2,593 km.
London to Abu Dhabi, about 4.7 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 5,517 km.
Abu Dhabi to Bangkok, about 4.6 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 4,966 km.
Zurich to Abu Dhabi, about 3.4 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 4,779 km.
Paris to Abu Dhabi, about 3.3 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 5,252 km.

22 further published lanes carry this carrier as well. The lane index lists every one.

The countries the EY code opens

Of the 59 countries and territories reached, 37 are reached at a single airport, which for a courier means one airport of entry and a road leg for everything else in that country. The deepest is India with 11 airports on this code. The country desk for United Arab Emirates sets out the customs practice, the working hours and the road legs behind these airports.

India (11 airports), United States (6 airports), Saudi Arabia (5 airports), Pakistan (4 airports), Spain (4 airports), Greece (3 airports), Germany (3 airports), Cambodia (2 airports), Portugal (2 airports), France (2 airports).

Where to go next on the EY network

Each of the 103 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 107 sectors can be opened in the calculator with the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour worked out. Start with the atlas entry for Abu Dhabi (AUH), the route calculator with Dubai to AUH already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.

Destinations we regularly book on Etihad Airways

These are the routes in our network where Etihad Airways is one of the carriers we book most often. It is not the airline's full timetable, schedules change constantly, but it is an honest picture of where the couriers the desk places actually fly with them.

City	Airport	Flight time	Route page
New York	JFK	approx. 14h 00m	Route →
Boston	BOS	approx. 13h 15m	Route →
Washington	IAD	approx. 14h 00m	Route →
Berlin	BER	approx. 6h 15m	Route →
Düsseldorf	DUS	approx. 6h 25m	Route →
Nice	NCE	approx. 6h 45m	Route →
Beijing	PEK	approx. 8h 30m	Route →
Guangzhou	CAN	approx. 7h 45m	Route →
Hangzhou	HGH	approx. 8h 15m	Route →
Hanoi	HAN	approx. 7h 00m	Route →
Brisbane	BNE	approx. 14h 00m	Route →
Perth	PER	approx. 11h 00m	Route →
Malé	MLE	approx. 4h 15m	Route →
Port Louis	MRU	approx. 6h 30m	Route →

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On board courier vs air cargo

Whether the seat is on Etihad Airways or anyone else, this is what the courier changes compared with putting the consignment in the hold.

✓ On board courier

A person in a seat

Leaves on the next available flight, often within hours of your call, 24/7.
One named courier holds the consignment from collection to signature.
Travels in the aircraft cabin wherever the airline, cargo classification and security rules permit it; the transport configuration is confirmed before booking.
No warehouse, no consolidation window, no overnight sort.
Customs cleared in person, questions answered at the counter, immediately.
Same-day delivery is realistic on most sectors out of the UAE.
Built for high-value, fragile, temperature-critical goods and originals.
Proof of delivery with signature, ID check and a photograph within minutes.
A human being you can call at any point of the journey.

✕ Air cargo & express freight

A parcel in a system

Waits for the next consolidation and space allocation, not for you.
Passes through many hands: hub, build-up, ramp, break-down, delivery agent.
Rides in the hold, frequently sitting in a warehouse overnight.
Each handover is a queue, and each queue is where hours disappear.
Cleared in a batch by a broker; one query can idle the shipment for a day.
Next day at best on most lanes, two to three days if it is held.
Chain of custody is a scan history, not a person with the box.
Signed for by whoever happens to be at the door.
Right answer for heavy, bulky or non-urgent freight, and we will say so.

To be straight about it: air cargo is not a bad service, it is a different one. It moves weight cheaply and it does that extremely well. A hand-carry buys back hours, and it is worth paying for exactly when an hour of delay costs more than a seat on a plane, which is the case far more often than most shippers assume, and far less often than most courier companies claim.

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Questions about flying Etihad Airways

What clients ask when they see a carrier name on a quote.

01Are you an agent or partner of Etihad Airways?

No. OnBoard Courier is an independent hand-carry courier placement and brokerage business. We buy ordinary passenger seats on the open market and hold no agency, contract or partnership with any airline. Airline names and marks belong to their owners and are used here only to describe the routes these assignments travel on.

02Will my shipment definitely fly Etihad Airways?

Only if that is genuinely the fastest option. We book whichever carrier departs next with a seat and a cabin allowance that fits the consignment. Tying a courier to one airline would slow the service down, which defeats the point of using one.

03How much can the courier carry on this airline?

Cabin baggage rules differ by carrier, cabin and aircraft type, and they are the real constraint on a hand-carry. We confirm the allowance for the specific flight before quoting, and book a premium cabin or an additional seat when the consignment needs one.

04Can the courier depart from a different UAE airport than Abu Dhabi (AUH)?

Yes. We work from every commercial airport in the Emirates, Dubai (DXB and DWC), Abu Dhabi (AUH), Sharjah (SHJ), Ras Al Khaimah (RKT), Fujairah (FJR) and Al Ain (AAN), and pick by schedule rather than habit.

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On board courier to Abu Dhabi

People usually find this service when something has already gone wrong: a line has stopped, a sample is about to expire, a document has to be somewhere tomorrow that it cannot reach. It is worth understanding how the service works before that day rather than during it.

The economics are less strange than they look. A courier assignment costs roughly what a business-class ticket costs, plus a fee and the ground work at each end. Set against a stopped production line, a grounded aircraft, an expiring clinical sample or a tender that closes at noon, that number stops being the interesting part of the conversation very quickly.

It is also worth saying what the service does not fix. It does not make a permit appear, it does not make a sanctioned party acceptable, and it does not make an undeclared battery legal. Where those are the problem, a courier only makes the problem arrive faster, which is why the screening happens before the quote.

For Abu Dhabi specifically, that means the useful conversation is not “how much” but “what exactly is in the box, and when does it have to be in whose hands”. Answer those two and everything else, the routing, the carrier, the airport, the paperwork, the price, follows in under an hour.

How an Abu Dhabi assignment actually runs

Most people booking a courier for the first time want to know what the hours look like. This is the real sequence for an Abu Dhabi assignment, the parts we control, the parts the airline controls, and the part where customs decides how the day goes.

Minute 0 to 15

You tell us what it is

The first conversation is short and specific: contents, declared value, collection address, delivery address in Abu Dhabi, and the real deadline rather than the comfortable one. If there are batteries, powders, liquids, biological material or anything regulated in the box, that is the moment to say so, not at the check-in desk.

Minute 15 to 45

We screen it and price it

Screening comes before pricing, always. Shipper, consignee, commodity, end use, route. In parallel we check the cabin allowance for the specific flights that could work to Abu Dhabi, because an allowance that fits on one aircraft type does not automatically fit on another.

Hour 1 to 3

A named courier is assigned and booked

The matching runs against couriers who are available now, whose passport and visas suit the route to Abu Dhabi, and whose delivery history fits the value of the consignment. The ticket is then bought in the courier's own name, matching their passport exactly, a booking in anything but the traveller's legal name is refused at the gate.

Hour 2 to 4

Collection, sealing and documentation

The courier collects in person, checks the goods against the description, seals the packaging with a numbered tamper-evident seal and photographs it. The commercial invoice, packing list and any permit travel with the courier, and a copy reaches our operations desk and the consignee in Abu Dhabi at the same moment.

In flight

The consignment stays in the cabin

The flight is the boring part, and that is the point. No hold, no handling agent, no transfer between systems, one person, one box, one continuous chain of custody all the way to Abu Dhabi (AUH).

On arrival

Customs, then a signature

Clearance at Abu Dhabi (AUH) happens with a person standing at the counter who can answer questions about the goods on the spot, which is the whole reason a query takes minutes here and a day in the cargo channel. Then the delivery, in person, against signature and ID.

The paperwork that decides how fast Abu Dhabi goes

Nothing delays a hand-carry as reliably as a document that says something different from the box. This is what we prepare with you before the courier leaves, and why each piece matters at Abu Dhabi (AUH).

Commercial invoice

The document customs actually reads. It needs a plain description of the goods, the real value, the currency, the terms of sale and the full names and addresses of both parties. “Samples, no commercial value” is not a customs value and it is the fastest way to turn a twenty-minute clearance at Abu Dhabi (AUH) into an afternoon.

Tariff classification

The HS code decides the duty, the permits and sometimes whether the goods may enter the destination country at all. We would rather agree the classification with you before departure than watch an officer choose one for us, because the officer's choice is the one that stands.

Proforma invoice for non-sales

Repairs, exhibition goods, replacements and samples still need a document with a realistic value on it. The value is what the goods are worth, not what you would like the duty to be, an understated value is a customs offence in the destination country rather than a negotiating position.

ATA Carnet and temporary admission

Where goods enter the destination country temporarily and leave again, demonstration equipment, exhibition pieces, professional gear, a carnet avoids duty entirely and gives the courier a document the officer recognises immediately. It has to be issued before departure; there is no retrospective version.

Certificates and permits

Certificates of origin, health and phytosanitary certificates, dangerous goods declarations, export licences for dual-use items, import permits for regulated categories. We identify which of these the destination country wants for your specific commodity at the quoting stage, because discovering it at Abu Dhabi (AUH) is far too late.

Legalisation and attestation

Documents that must be legalised, apostilled or attested to be valid in the destination country are checked before the courier collects them. A perfectly delivered document that lacks the right stamp has not solved anybody's problem.

What an Abu Dhabi courier actually costs, and why

We do not publish a price list, because a fixed table would be a lie: the same box on the same route costs differently at four hours' notice than at two days'. What we can do is be exact about which levers move the number, so nothing in the quote is a surprise.

The ground legs at both ends

Collection in the Emirates and delivery beyond Abu Dhabi (AUH) are part of the job, not an extra. Where the delivery address is a long drive from the airport, or a second domestic sector is needed, we price it in from the start instead of stopping at arrivals.

Distance and sector count

A direct flight to Abu Dhabi is one ticket and one risk. A two-sector routing is cheaper on paper and more expensive in practice, because every connection is a chance to lose the consignment's schedule. We quote the routing we would actually fly, not the cheapest one that technically arrives.

How much notice you give us

A seat bought four hours before departure costs what a seat bought four hours before departure costs. Nothing about that is a courier margin, it is simply the airline's pricing curve, and it is the single largest variable in an Abu Dhabi quote.

Size, weight and whether it fits a locker

Anything beyond normal cabin baggage means a second seat, and occasionally two. An extra seat sounds dramatic until you compare it with a charter: it is an order of magnitude cheaper and it moves at the speed of a scheduled flight.

Declared value and insurance

All-risk cover is priced on the declared value of the goods, and it is the number that matters, airline liability under the Montreal Convention is a fraction of what most courier consignments are worth. Understating the value to save a little on cover is a false economy the first time anything goes wrong.

Regulatory profile of the goods

Batteries, biological material, temperature-controlled consignments and anything export-controlled require preparation, sometimes a permit and occasionally a specialist packer. That work is real and it appears in the quote rather than as a surprise at the airport.

Every quote we send is fixed before departure and contains the flight, the courier's fee, transfers and, where an overnight cannot be avoided, the hotel. The things that can change it afterwards are the things you control: a change of destination, a change of goods, or a delay at your end that costs the booked flight. Duty and tax in the destination country sit with the consignee unless we have agreed otherwise in writing.

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What can go wrong on an Abu Dhabi assignment, and what we do about it

Every operator has these problems. The difference is whether the answer was decided in advance or invented at the counter. This is our answer to each of them, written down before you need it.

Weather or airspace closes the route

Force majeure does not disappear because a shipment is urgent. What we do is re-plan around it, a different hub, a different carrier, occasionally a different UAE airport, and tell you what the new arrival time is rather than letting you discover it.

The flight is cancelled

Not a crisis, a routine. Before the courier leaves for the airport we already know the next two departures that could carry the consignment to Abu Dhabi, on any carrier, from any of the seven UAE airports. Rebooking is a phone call, not a rescue operation.

The declared value is challenged

It happens, and it is survivable when the invoice is realistic and consistent with the goods. It is not survivable when someone wrote a convenient number. We check this before departure precisely because there is no way to fix it afterwards.

The courier is refused boarding

Almost always a document problem: a passport too close to expiry, a missing transit visa, a name on the ticket that does not match the passport. Every one of those is checked at assignment, and it is checked again before the courier leaves for the airport.

Something needs to continue past Abu Dhabi

A second sector, a border crossing or a domestic flight beyond Abu Dhabi (AUH) is planned as part of the assignment, not handed to a third party on arrival. The chain of custody either holds to the signature or it is not a chain of custody.

Customs asks a question

A person can answer it. That single fact is most of the difference between a hand-carry and a cargo booking: a query at Abu Dhabi (AUH) that would idle a shipment for a day gets resolved at the counter in minutes because the person who knows what is in the box is standing there.

How jobs like this actually run

Illustrative cases, patterns from daily OBC work, details generalised for client confidentiality.

AOGDXB → FRA

A narrow-body grounded for a hydraulic sensor at a Frankfurt MRO line.

Collected14:10

Wheels up18:15

At the MRO line23:40

✓ Aircraft released for the morning wave.

SemiconductorSHJ → TPE

A reticle case that had to stay upright, in sight, in the cabin.

Cleanroom pickup11:20

Via a same-day connection14:45

Fab dock06:50 +1

✓ Line stoppage avoided.

EventsLAS → RUH

A show-control console after a failure during load-in.

Vendor pickup20:10

Two-leg routing23:30

Front of house07:45 +2

✓ Doors opened on time.

Times are typical for these lanes; every job gets its own named flight and timeline before you confirm.

How it moves

A desk that never sleeps

24/7 operations in Dubai watching every leg, rebooking before you notice a delay.

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Where to go from here

Hand carry on Etihad Airways is one chapter of a larger network. OnBoard Courier moves time-critical consignments with vetted on-board couriers departing 24/7 from all seven UAE airports to 584 destinations across 219 countries. Choose the service that fits, classic hand-carry, AOG for grounded aircraft, medical and pharma, next flight out or high-value goods, then check entry requirements and customs by country and how an assignment actually runs, minute by minute.

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