IATA

MAIN CODES USED BY IATA

FOR AIR TRANSPORT

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 INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION
INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION

WHAT IS IT?
*It is a private, voluntary organization
• It brings together the main airline companies, which operate regular lines.

GOALS:
• Promote the safety, regularity and economy of air transport, for the benefit of
populations around the world
* Promote air trade and study the problems related to it
* Create the means that make possible collaboration between air transport
companies, directly or indirectly dedicated to international services
• Collaborate with the ICAO and more international organizations

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 IATA CODING
IATA codes are abbreviations published by the International Air Transport
Association (IATA) to facilitate communications regarding air travel.
They are usually 1 to 4 combinations of characters (hereinafter, unigrams, diagrams,
trigrams or tetragrams, respectively)
They identify places, equipment, companies, and times to normalize international
flight operations.

No. Characters Identify Examples

1 Service classes F First class
2 Airlines I.B. Iberia
3 Cities / Airports CCS Caracas
4 Types of food KSML Kosher Food

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 TELECOMMUNICATIONS ALPHABET

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OFFICIAL ALPHABET TOURIST ALPHABET
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A - Alpha N - November - America
N - Nicaragua
b
b - Bravo EITHER - Oscar - Brazil
EITHER - Orinoco
c - Charlie Q - Dad c - Caracas Q - Peru

d - Delta Q - Quebec d - Denmark Q - Quito

AND- Threw out R - AND- Spain R - River

Romeo F - France Yes - Santiago

F - Foxtrot Yes-Mountain range g - Guatemala T - Tamanaco

g - Golf T - Tango h - Honduras OR - Uruguay

h - Hotel OR - uniform Yo - India

V - Venezuela
Yo - India V - Victor J. - Jamaica
W - Washington
J. - Juliet W - Whiskey K - Kingston x - Xiomara
K - Kilo x - X ray l - Lime
AND - Yucatan
l - Lime AND- Yankee M - Managua Z - Zulia

M - Mike Z - Zulu

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 COUNTRY AND CITY CODING

ISO 3166 Standard (“Codes for Representation of names of Countries”)

Country codes are made up of 2 alphabetical characters:

EC ECUADOR GO VENEZUELA PE PERU

City codes are made up of 3 alphabetical characters:

CCS CARACAS NYC NEW YORK MAD MADRID

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AIRLINE DESIGNATORS
IATA
NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL ONLINE

A.E. AERO EXECUTIVES AA AMERICAN AIRLINES USA

S3 SAINT BARBARA AF AIR FRANCE
8Z LASER A.R. ARGENTINIAN AIRLINES
YOU AND AEROTUY av AVIANCA COLOMBIA
RUT RUTACA AZ ALITALIA ITALY
R7 ASERCA B.W. BWIA BRITISH WEST INDIANS AIRWAYS
V.H. AEROPOSTAL CM PANAMA CUP
9V AVIOR CO CONTINENTAL USA
VO CONVIASA C.U. CUBAN AVIATION
D.L. DELTA AIRLINES USA
I.B. IBERIA SPAIN
THE LAN CHILE
L.B. LLOYD AERO BOLIVIANO
YOU LAN ECUADOR
L.H. LUFTHANSA GERMANY
LP LAN PERU
L.R. LACSA COSTA RICA
MX MEXICAN AVIATION
R.G. VARIG BRAZIL
T.A. TACA PERU
T.P. TAP AIR PORTUGAL
UX AIREUROPA SPAIN

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 South CITY CODE IATA CITY CODE IATA CITY CODE IATA
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IATA ARGENTINA Strength FOR ECUADOR

Gemral■ and Guyana
North Amarfog Í —3 7 Suringme North
Pacific Venezuela / / french Atlantic
Buenos Aires BUE Recife REC Quito UIO
Ocean 4 Ocean
Colombia
EQUATOR
Cordova COR savior SSA Guayaquil GYE
(Ecuador} 1, L.
Ecuador
rosary beads ROS Porto Alegre POA FRENCH GUIANA
Silver sea MDQ COLOMBIA cayenne CAY
SOUUIF Brazil
Tucuman T.U.C. Bogota B.O.G. PERU
AMERICA BOLIVIA Bucaramanga BGA Lime LIM
Peace LPB Cali C.L.O. Arequipa AQP
15°S
Bolivia

TROPIC or CAPRICORN 75° W- Paraguay Sucre SRE Cartagena CTG Cusco KICK
Cochabamba CBB Cucuta CUC Trujillo TRO
30° S X
Argentina Santa Cruz CRZ Medellin MDE PARAGUAY
Easter Island
(Chile) South BRAZIL GUIANA Assumption TO ITS
Pacific
600 km
Brasilia BSB Georgetown GEO SURINAM
Ocean
60PW 45°W 30°W 15°W Sao Paulo SAO CHILI Paramaribo PMB
. iM J South
Guarulhos GRU Santiago de Chile SCL URUGUAY
AKlend Atlantic
105°W 90°W ?
Rio de Janeiro RIVER Arica ARI Montevideo MVD
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South, seotle Galeao GIG Antofagasta ANF Leap STY
Southern
75°W —Geori Is. Boa Vista BVB Iquique IQQ VENEZUELA
AFTARSTICA ANTARCTIC(UK)
CIRCLE 665
Ocean Manaus MAO Punta Arenas PVQ Caracas CCS
Belem BEL Valdivia ZAL Maracaibo SEA
North COD IATA
CITY CITY COD . IATA CITY CODE IATA
America E
CANADA ILINOIS Newark EWR
Ottawa YOW Chicago CHI Kennedy J.F.K.
Cagliari YYC O Hare ORD OHIO
Edmonton YEA COLORADO cleveland C.L.E.
halifax YHZ Denver DEN TEXAS
Montreal YMQ YUL MASSACHUSETTS Dallas Ft. Worth D.F.W.
toronto YTO YYZ Boston B.O.S. Houston HOU
Winnipeg Y.W.G. MICHIGAN Washington D.C. WAS
USES detroit DTT WASHINGTON
CALIFORNIA MINESOTA seattle BE
The Angels LAX Minneapolis MSP WILMINGTON
San Francisco S.F.O. MISSISSIPPI Philadelphia PHL
Oakland OAK New Orleans MSY ALASKA
FLORIDA MISSURI Anchorage ANC
Fort Lauderdale FDL ST. louis STL Fairbanks FAI
Miami MINE SNOWFALL Juneau JNU
orlando MCO Las Vegas THE HAWAII
GEORGIA NEW YORK NYC Honolulu HNL
atlanta ATL The guard LGA

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 CITY
CITY CODE IATA IATA CITY CODE IATA
CODE
ANCIENT JAMAICA US ISLANDS
Barbuda BBQ Kingston KIN VIRGIN ISLANDS
St. John's ANU Montego Bay M.B.J. ST. Croix STX
ARUBA PUERTO RICO ST. Thomas STT
Oranjestad AUA San Juan SJU BRITISH ISLANDS
BAHAMAS REPUBLIC Cayman Islands GCM
Freeport FPO DOMINICAN Montserrat MNI
Nassau NAS Santo Domingo SDQ Turtledove EIS
BARBADOS Puerto Plata P.O.P. Virgin Gorda VIJ
Bridgetown BGI The Roman LRM Turkish and
CUBA Punta Cana PUJ Caycos GDT
Havana HAV ST. KITTS FRENCH ISLANDS
Camaguey CMW Basseterre SKB GUADELOUPE
Hundred fires CFG Nevis NEV Pointe au Pitre PTP
Santiago Cuba SCU ST. LUCY MARTINIQUE
DOMINICA Castries SLU Fort de France FDF
Rousseau SUN ST. VINCENT NETHERLANDS
Ambergris
GRENADA Kingston SVD Bonaire BON
TurnefFe Islands
St. George's GND TRINITY AND Curacao CUR
Belmopan
HAITI TOBAGO St. Eustaqius EUX
Bahia Islands
Port Au Prince PAP Port of Spain POS St. Maarten SXM
Guatemala CAP Haitien CHAP tobago TAB
Honduras
Tegucigalpa
San Salvador
Providence Is.
Nicaragua (Colombia)
The Savior
GLifof San finaras Is. CITY CODE IATA CITY CODE IATA CITY CODE IATA
Fonseca Managua :
(Colombia)
Managua
Man Islands

Nicaragua
'Nicaragua
BELIZE HONDURAS
Pacific
BZE TGU
Mouths da. Bull
Ocean Belize City Tegucigalpa Monterrey MTY
COSTA RICA MEXICO Pto. Vallarta PVR
Panama Saint Joseph SJO Mexico City MEX Tijuana TIJ
GUlf Of THE SAVIOR Acapulco HERE NICARAGUA
Chlriqul
San Salvador SALT Cancun CUN Managua MGA
GUATEMALA Cozumel CZM PANAMA
PTY
Guatemala GUIDE Guadalajara GOAL Panama

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CITY CODE IATA CITY CODE IATA CITY CODE IATA

Norway Marseilles MRS ICELAND SCOTLAND

Nantes WTE Reykjavik REK Edinburgh EDI
Russian federation
(European Russia) Toulouse TLS IRELAND SERBIA AND
UK
Belgium .Engla
ESTONIA Dublin DWB MONTENERGO
nd \ p
luxebodfglleehteqstein. “ Slovakid So Kazakhstan .Azov
Tallinn TLL LATVIA Belgrade BEG
switzerland) Austti Hungary Romania -Moldova
ENGLAND Riga RIX Podgorica TGD
france
london LON LITHUANIA SLOVAKIA
Sün/c f! 3
Marine > Montenegro
Georgia
Gatwick LGW Kaunas KUN Bratislava bts
Corsica Vatican Al Greek European
Heathrow LHR LUXEMBURG SLOVENIA
2,
Spain (france) "Sardinia Turkey
terrancanCtaly) Turkey
Liverpool LPL Luxembourg LUX Ljubljana LJU
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Italy) Haifa Cyprus ■ Syria
Portugal Manchester MAN MALT SPAIN
Gibraltar S
*ii I =
Faroe Islands Valletta M.L.A. Madrid MAD
Thor-Shaun FAE MACEDONIA Barcelona BCN
FINLAND Skopje SKP Bilbao IDB
CITY CODE Helsinki HEL MOLDOVA Malaga AGP
IATA Tampere TMP Kishinev K.I.V. Seville SVQ
Turku TKU MONACO Stgo. Compostela SCQ
ALBANIA
Tyrant AUNT GERMANY Monte Carlo MCM Valencia VLC
Bonn BNJ NETHERLANDS- Canary Islands:
AUSTRIA
Berlin BER HOLLAND Tenerife TFS
Vienna FRI
Cologne CGN amsterdam A.M.S. The Palms LPS
BELGIUM
Frankfurt FRA NORTH IRELAND Balearics:
Brussels BRU
Hamburg HAM belfast B.F.S. Minorca MAH
BULGARIA
Stuttgart STR NORWAY Ibiza IBZ
Sofia SOF
Munich MUC Oslo OSL GIBRALTAR (UK) CHALK
BELARUS
GREECE POLAND-POLAND SWEDEN
Minsk MSQ
Athens ATH warsaw WAW Gotheborg G.O.T.
BOSNIA
HERZEGOVINA Thessaloniki SKG Krakow KRK Stockholm S.T.O.
GEORGIA Gdansk GDN SWITZZERLAND
Sarajevo Butimir SJJ
Tbilisi TBS PORTUGAL Zurich ZRH
CROATIA
HUNGARY lisbon LIS Bern BRN
Zagreb ZAG
Budapest bud Funchal FCN Geneva GVA
CZECH REPUBLIC
ITALY Port OPO SLOVENIA
Prague PRG
Rome ROM ROMANIA Ljubljana LJU
DENMARK
Leonardo da Vinci FCO Bucharest BUH TURKEY
Copenhagen CPH THOUS
Milan RUSSIA Istanbul IST
FRANCE AND
Malpensa MXP Moscow M.O.W. Ankara ANK
Paris PAIR
Naples NAP Saint-Petersburg LED UKRAINE
Boudreaux BOO
Venice VCE Kyiv IEV
Lyon LYS

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Africa
ASIA
Azores/
(Portugal) 15°W
Tunisia' CITY CODE IATA CITY IATA CITY CODE IATA
Madeira Is.
30°N (Portugal} Morocco
Canary Is. Libya Jordan / Persian
ALGERIA GAMBIA NIGER
Algeria
(Spain)-
Western 1 Egypt Kuwalt' i ।
Qatar-
Gulf
Atlantic
Algeria ALG Banjul BJL Niamey NIM
TROPIC OF CANCER

Mauritania
Cape Verdi Senegal! Mali
migar AU $ They pray ORN GABON NIGERIA
5°N /- „• , Chad Be
ANGOLA Libreville LBV Lakes THE
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Gulf of Aden
Luanda THE D GHANA RWANDA
Sudan *
Socotra
Djibouti
(Yemen)

Guinea-Bissau Guineq. .
Togo . p-fvrfres
Central
Ethiopia
/Spmalia Namibe MSZ Accra ACC Kigali KGL
Nigeria
Sierra Leone 5 — African Rep. Indian BURKINA FASO GUINEA-BISSAU SENEGAL
Liberia', Gqlfor- Cameroon «nana Guinea - Ocean
0° EQUATOR Eq. Guinea —-
Rwanda Kenya Ouagadougou OAU Bissau BXO Dakar D.K.R.
Sao Toma/ &
800 mi Principe Dem. Rep. MY Zanzibar BOSTWANA GUINEA SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Congo
(Tanzania)
Gabon
Geborone GBE Conakry CKY Saint tome TMS
8on58 /
800 km
Cabinda Malawi
BURUNDI KENYA SEYCHELLES
Seychelles
(Angola) Lake X
} Angola. ATanzanid
Bujumbura BJM Nairobi NBO Victory SEZ
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Burundi and
15°S
Zambia

Namibia Zimbabwe Mauritius

CAPE VERDE Mombasa MBA SIERRA LEONE
TROPIC OF CAPRICORN Botswana. Praia RAI LESOTHO Freetown FNA
Meeting
CENTRAL AFRICA masero MSU SOMALIA
Atlantic Ocean Yo \ Madagascar
30°S South
\ Mozambique
Bangui BGF LIBERIA Mogadishu MGQ
#worldatlas Africa Swaziland Indian ocean CHAD Monrovia M.L.W. SOUTH AFRICA
30°W 15"E 45E
60°E
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N'Djamena N.D.J. LIBYA Johannesburg J.N.B.
300E
CAMEROON Tripoli TIP Cape Town CPT
Yaounde YAO MAURITIUS SUDAN
CONGO Port Lewis MRU Port Sudan PZU
Brazzaville BZU MALAWI Khartoum KRT
COTE D IVOIRE Lilongwe L.L.W. SWAZILAND
Abidjan ABJ MALI Mbabane MTS
COMORES Tombouctou TOM TANZANIA
Moroni YVA MAURITANIA Dar es Salaam GIVE
DJIBOUTI Nema EMN TOGO
Djibouti JIB Nouakchott NKC lomé LFW
EQUATORIAL MADAGASCAR TUNISIA
GINNEA Antananarivo TNR Tunisia YOU N
Malabo SSG MOROCCO ZAIRE
ETHIOPIA White House CAS Kinshasa FKI
Asmera ASM Rabat RBA ZAMBIA
Addis Ababa A.D.D. MOZAMBIQUE Lusaka MON
EGYPT Maputo MPM ZIMBABWE
Cairo Lime NAMIBIA Harare HRE
Alexandria ALY Luderitz LUD

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IATA Asia - Middle East
CITY CODE IATA CITY CODE IATA CITY CODE IATA

AFGHANISTAN KUWAIT SAUDI ARABIA

Kabul KBL Kuwait KWI Riyadh R.U.H.
IRAN LEBANON Dhahran DHA
ASIA
Iraq MIDDLE
Tehran THR Beirut BEY SYRIA
IRAQ Tripoli KEY Damascus DAM
Baghdad BGW OMAN UNITED ARAB
Unitéd ISRAEL Muscat MCT STATES
Tel Aviv-Jaffa TLV YEMEN Abu Dhabi AUH
Haifa HFA Adem Perin ADE dubai DXB
JORDAN
Amman AMM

CITY CODE IATA CITY CODE IATA CITY CODE IATA

AFGHANISTAN INDONESIA NEPAL

Kabul KBL Jakarta J.K.T. Kathmandu KTM
BAHARAIN JAPAN SOUTH KOREA
Manama BAH Tokyo TYO Seoul SEL
BANGLADESH Osaka OSA REPUBLIC OF
Ohaka DAC Sapporo SPK KOREA
BURMA-BURMA KAMPUCHEA Pyongyang FNJ
Rangoon RGN Phnom Penh PNH SINGAPORE
BRUNEI KAZAKHASTAN Singapore WITHO
Begawan BWN Omsk WHO TAIWAN
CHINA KYRGISTAN Taipei TPE
Beijing - Beijing P.E.K. Bishkek FRU THAILAND
Hong Kong HKG MALAYSIA bangkok BKK
Shanghai SHA Kuala Lumpur KUL TAJIKISTAN
PHILIPPINES MALDIVES Dushanbe HEY
Manila MNL male MLE TURKMEKISTAN
INDIA MONGOLIA kashi KSQ
Delhi OF THE Ulaanbaatar ULN VIETNAM
mumbai BOM LAOS Hanoi THEY
Calcutta CCU Vientiane VTE

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WESTERN SAMOA PALAU ISLANDS

AUSTRALIA Apia APW Koror R.O.R.
Canberra CBR TONES SAMOA
Adelaide ADL Tongatapu TBU Payment PPG
Brisbane BNE VANUATU FRENCH ISLANDS
Melbourne MEL Port Vila VLI NEW CALEDONIA
Perth PER AMERICAN ISLANDS Noumea NOU
sydney SYD GUAM POLYNESIA
FIJI Agana GUM Bora Bora B.O.B.
Hers SUV PPT
KIRIBATI MICRONESIA Truk T.K.K. Papeete Moorea MOZ
Bairiki T.R.W. MARIANAN ISLANDS WALLIS AND
NEW Saipan SPN FORTUNE
ZEALAND
Wellington WLG MARSHALL ISLANDS Mata utu WL S
Auckland AKL Majuro MAJ NEW ZEALAND
PAPUA NEW GUINEA CAROLINE ISLANDS ISLANDS
Port Moresby POM Ponape PNI COOK ISLANDS
SOLOMON ISLANDS rare tonga RAR
Honiara HIR

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 THE AIRLINES

TYPES OF AIRLINES

Regional airlines :
They operate medium and low capacity aircraft, on short
routes with high frequencies.
Generally domestic flights and rarely international flights.

Network airlines :
They operate a large fleet with aircraft of various sizes. They
combine long-distance flights with medium and short-
distance flights.

Large scale airlines :

They are mainly dedicated to carrying out long-duration or
high-density flights between the main international airports
in the world. Their fleets are characterized by having large
capacity aircraft.

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 NATIONAL AIRLINES

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Fleet: R7 Rutaca
Fleet:
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DC 9 30 / DC 9 50 -6. E 110, / C208B / B737 200
Base: VLN Base: CBL
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Fleet: Fleet:
A 340 – 200, CRJ 700, B 737 200 DH 7 / C 208 / C 206 U
Base: CCS Base: CCS
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Fleet:
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DC 9 30
Base: PMV

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 INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES ONLINE
American Airlines
Argentinian airlines
Team to Venezuela
Team to Venezuela
A.R.
B 737-800 / B 767
At 340 — —v.
Destinations: MIA DFW
American Airlines Destination: BUE
JFK Airlines
Argentines
Air Europe
Team to Venezuela:
UX air France AF
Team to Venezuela:
B 767 At 330
Destination: MAD WAirEurope Destinations: PAR (CDG) AIR FRANCE/
SCQ
Air Canada
Team to Venezuela: A
A. Alitalia AZ
Team to Venezuela:
319 C. B 767
Destinations: PAR
(CDG)
Destinations: ROM Alitalia
(FCO)

Avianca
Team to Venezuela:
av Caribbean Airlines
Team to Venezuela:
B.
A 319 / A 330 DHC 8 W.
Destinations: BOG Avianca Destination: POS

Continental Airlines
Team to Venezuela:
CO Copa Airlines
Team to Venezuela:
CM
TO .
B 737-800 Continental
B 737-600
Destinations: HOU (IAH) (EWR) Airlines Destinations: PTY
NYC MED Copag
Airlines El
Cuban aviation
C.U.
Delta Airlines
Team to Venezuela:
D.L.
Team to Venezuela: m-aAN-aau——

IL 62 / T 20
EEP •2 2 cuonn 5 B 757
Destination: ATL NYC ADE LTA
Destinations: HAV

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GOAL
Dutch Antilles Express 9H Team to Venezuela:
G3
Team to Venezuela
B 737
ATR F100 Nn*uA*ili
Destination: AUA
Destination: CUR ____ Iglgmmhdomcede8e
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Iberia I.B.
Insel Air
Team to Venezuela:
7I
Team to Venezuela: 1
MD80
At 340 — =—2—==— n
Destinations: CUR
Destinations: MAD TFS IBERIA!

LAN ( Chile / Peru / Ecuador)

Team to Venezuela:
THE Lufthansa L.H.
Team to Venezuela:
B 767 / A 330
Destinations: SCL MIA LIM - AN gmmu22 1 At 340
LAN - --m- Destination: FRA S Lufthansa
Lacsa L.
Team to Venezuela: TACA T.A.
At 319 R.
HUacsa
Team to Venezuela:
A 321 CT
Destinations: SJO
The Airline of Costa Rica Destinations: LIM

TAP Air Portugal TP l TAM

Team to Venezuela:
J.
Team to Venezuela:
At 330
At 320 J.
Destinations: LIS OPO ,IP— • aweMaz
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TAP PORTUGAL
Destination: ATL NYC

TIARA 3P
Team to Venezuela: do 37/.
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Destination: AUA sympathetic...
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