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Air India has competition!

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Socialite evening at sarkari airline


Nandini R Iyer


Mumbai, July 28, 2006
 
On Thursday, India's A-list socialites descended on the landmark Air India building at Nariman Point. Their mission? To rummage through Hermes and Rochas products and point out the differences between them.


Parmeshwar Godrej, Maureen Wadia, Avantika Birla, Marshneil and Sunil Gavaskar, among others, were the guests of Air India Chairman V Thulasidas to help the carrier choose luxury products for its giveaway toilet bag to first and business class travellers.


The goodie bag comes with such  handy basics as mouthwash, moisturiser and perfume to keep passengers bright and perky on long-haul flights. "If passengers retain the  A-I kit, it's unspoken publicity for us," a senior official commented.


And who better than front-end passengers themselves to decide what makes the grade?


Thulasidas came up with the idea of roping in the celebrities to rummage through 116 amenity kits after he requested India Inc's top names like Ratan Tata and Deepak Parekh to test various passenger seat options.


"It is good to see that a revamp is underway," said Maureen Wadia who, incidentally, was an airhostess with A-I before marriage.


However, she felt, "Why use foreign products when Indian products, particularly herbal cosmetics, are such a rage abroad?"


But A-I wants kits that can match up with the best internationally. Bidders have included such brands as Hermes, Rochas, Lancome, Ferre, Aigner and Delsey.


Air India is clear that, unlike some competitors, it does not subscribe to a minimalistic kits. “Our passengers will not need to ask for extras," says Thulasidas.


 


Two ex-AI airhostesses!! Parameshwar Godrej and Maureen Wadia (now in charge of GoAir!!)



 
 



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Passenger kicked off HK plane over Gucci handbag: report


 


HONG KONG, July 31, 2006 (UNI) - A passenger was escorted off a Mumbai-bound plane in Hong Kong after she refused to put her Gucci handbag under the seat, disrupting the flight for more than an hour, a report said Monday.


The Cathay Pacific plane was ready to take off but was forced to stop on the runway because the young passenger would not listen to a flight attendant’s request, the Apple Daily reported.


After 15 minutes of argument, police officers, airport security guards and airline officials were called in to resolve the situation, but she still refused to give in, it said.


After an officer threatened to arrest her, the unnamed passenger finally agreed to leave the plane with her Gucci handbag, much to the delight of her angry fellow passengers who clapped as she was escorted off.


‘‘It’s not my fault, it was them who were too stubborn,’’ she shouted as she was leaving.

The incident, captured on camera by another passenger and published on the Internet, resulted in a delay of the flight of more than an hour.

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HKIA, Heathrow join in passenger-flow trial


HONG KONG, July 31 (UNI) -- Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) and London’s Heathrow Airport will launch a trial project using biometrics technology to evaluate a simplified and secure process flow for international travelers. The use of biometrics technology, including fingerprint, is expected to simplify existing procedures and enhance airport security and border-control efficiency, according to a letter of intent signed by Director of Immigration Lai Tung-kwok and the United Kingdom Immigration Service’s Director of Border Control Tony Smith here on Monday.


 The trial is a project under the Ideal Process Flow concept developed by the Simplifying Passenger Travel Interest Group led by the International Air Transport Association. It will be conducted at London’s Heathrow Airport, the Hong Kong International Airport and the Dubai International Airport andwill, however, initially involve volunteers.


 The trial project will involve border-control authorities, airlines, airport authorities and technology providers, according to the letter of intent.


 A spokesman for the Immigration Department said the introduction of the e-passport has provided a new common platform for border control authorities throughout the world to develop a more simplified and yet more secure ways to process the increasingnumber of people traveling. Based on the capabilities provided by the e-passport, the trialwill look into the possibilities of facilitating the travel of e-passport holders through automated facilities such as e-channel.



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Air India-Kashmir Times awards for students, teachers


Jammu, July 30 (UNI)


AIR India has tied up with the ’Kashmir Times’ to reach every nook and corner of Jammu and Kashmir as a part of its ’reaching out project’ for the rank and bolt awards.


Winners of the state and national level competitions will earn a trip to Singapore courtesy AIR India. In a bid attract young talent to develop a patriotic spirit AIR India has chosen media leaders in different states and in Jammu and Kashmir it has chosen kashmir Times.


The quiz competition will have two categories, one for the teachers and the other for students. One winner and one runner-up from each district will be selected under both the categories. From this pool of selected entries, One winning student and one teacher will be chosen for the state level award by a panel of judges. The state level winners will travel to Singapore as guests of air india to promote the concept of responsible and active citizen.


The selected candidates- students and teachers- would be called for an interview and the state and district-level winners will be finalised by the jury. The state-level winners would join those from other states and would be taken to Singapore for four days by A-I and Singapore Tourism Board.


 


 


The main aim is that this is part of the India Govt's efforts at integration. Complements the efforts by the Indian Army at taking Kashmiri youngsters around the country and learn about it.  



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Carriers shop big-time for aircraft 
 
CORPORATE BUREAU 
Posted online: Friday, August 04, 2006 at 0000 hours IST 
  
 
NEW DELHI, AUG 3:  To supplement the huge increase in passenger traffic, airlines in India are chalking out major expansion plans. Each, on an average, is planning to acquire 50 planes in the next six to seven years.
After almost a decade of waiting, national carriers Air-India and Indian Airlines are set to bag 68 and 43 planes valued at Rs 35,000 crore and Rs 10,000 crore, respectively. While Air-India has placed orders with Boeing, Indian Airlines has opted for Boeing’s European rival Airbus.


Surprisingly, the largest order has been placed by new entrant, Gurgaon-based Indigo Airlines. The company is acquiring 100 planes of single configuration from Airbus worth $6 billion. The next big order comes from the first low-cost airline in India, Air Deccan, worth Rs 16,000 crore, for 96 planes. Of the 96 aircraft, 67 will be A-320s and 29 will be ATRs.


Jet Airways, the airline with the highest market share, has ordered 30 planes valued at Rs 12,000 crore. Another premium carrier, Kingfisher Airlines, will add 30 more aircraft to its fleet by 2010, costing around Rs 10,000 crore.


The company is also the first in India to place orders for five Airbus superjumbo A-380s.


The other low-cost airlines, Spice, Jet and GoAir, have together placed orders for 43 aircraft worth Rs 11,300 crore.


With new airlines like Jagson, East-West and Magic Air expected to commence operations before the end of this financial year, more than 450 aircraft will be set to take off for Indian skies before the end of 2010.
 



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East West ReStarting.I've been hearing that since 1998.


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Canada’s Manitoba flying school trains pilots from India


Toronto, Aug 4 (UNI)


Canada’s Manitoba province is emerging as a centre for training students from India to become pilots. Winnipeg Aviation, a joint venture between India and Canada in the private sector, here is training ten Indian students who will become pilots within 12 months, compared to two to three years in India, Hemant Shah, spokesperson of the company said. ‘‘It is a designated school for Indian students who are being trained to fly the single-engine Cesna aircraft, and the training will be certified by appropriate Canadian authority that will have international recognition,’’ he said. He said it is estimated that India would need between 2,500 and 4,000 pilots to fill cockpits over the next six years. Rapid economic growth and a growing middle class in India have resulted in 50 new airlines starting up in the last five years, Shah said. ‘‘So this has resulted in a shortage of pilots, and quite frankly they just can’t train enough fast enough,’’ said Shah. Devarsh Patel, one of the students from India, in Winnipeg Aviation for pilot training, said that it was the only way he could fulfill his dream of becoming a pilot. ‘‘Actually, it was my childhood dream to become a pilot, and so after I completed my high school I was already enrolled with one of the flying clubs in India,’’ said Patel, 18. Patel claimed it would have cost about the same for flight training in Manitoba as it does in India, with the only cost difference here being the price of accommodation.



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ICICI Lombard, A-I tie up for cheaper student medical cover 
 
NEELASRI BARMAN
Posted online: Friday, August 04, 2006 at 0000 hours IST
 
       
 
 
MUMBAI, AUG 3:  ICICI Lombard and Air-India have entered into a tie-up to provide mandatory US bound students insurance almost at Rs 30,000 cheaper cost. This would enable students having a valid ticket of A-I to avail of the university compliant student medical insurance for a special rate. This is the first time A-I has tied up for such kind of insurance.
All US universities of higher education require their students to be covered for medical insurance. This insurance, when purchased at the university cost in the range of $1,000 or about Rs 45,000. ICICI Lombard issues tailor-made student medical insurance, according to the university requirement.


Such tailor-made policies which comply with the university requirements can be purchased by the students from ICICI Lombard for a cost in the range of approx. Rs 13,000. This gives the student a cost savings of over Rs 30,000.


The ICICI Lombard policy offer cashless hospitalisation services worldwide to the student through a 24X7 helpline number. It, in addition to the medical coverage, also offers 8 non-medical covers like passport loss, baggage loss, personal accident cover, bail bond, compassionate visit, sponsor protection, study interruption and personal liability. All these additional benefits are included in the same policy premium.


The ICICI Lombard Student Medical Insurance covers the student from India, to the time the student comes back to India, and anywhere in the world which when compared to the US insurance plans that typically cover the student only within the US and not for any holiday trips that the student may take outside of the US.


The policy can be taken for 1 year from the start and can be extendable to the second year, covering the student for the entire period of study.
 



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Damas ‘Back to Home’ competition winners announced
[Thursday, August 3, 2006 3:50:00 pm] 



Damas has announced winners of its ‘Back to Home’ contest which saw 100 couples win free flight tickets to their home country.


The contest was open to all customers who made jewellery purchases worth AED 1000 and above at any of the Damas outlets. To enter the contest, eligible customers had to do pen their most cherished childhood memories and writers of the best 100 messages would receive 2 return tickets to their home country on Etihad Airways or Indian Airlines, depending on their destination.


“We got over 12,000 entries and it was a difficult task to choose the winners as all the messages were pretty impressive, “said Tawhid Abdullah, Managing Director, Damas.


“We are happy to give away the tickets to the 100 lucky couples, all of who are now looking forward to their trip. Contests like this help us to show our appreciation to our customers for their loyalty and support.” 52 of the winning couples will fly Etihad Airways to various Arab countries including Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Syria.


One of the winners, Fatima Ahmed Wedad Deeb, a Syrian national said, “I was planning to visit my family and now I can make my trip without worrying about the travel cost. Damas has made my wish come true.”


43 other winning couples will travel to 15 different destinations in India by Indian Airlines and 5 Pakistani couples will fly home by Etihad Airways.


 


A huge boost for IA which is going to town with this in the Gulf. 



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If im not wrong then this topic was started as a thread of those umbrellas that IT was offering its pax


Now where it has reached



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Its called TRIVIA!!!


So anything goes here if it doesn;t fit in elsewhere and related to aviation.



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IC-976 is Sharjah-Kochi-Coimbatore-Chennai. Nice flight!!


Indian Airlines passengers suffer 22-hour delay
By Riyasbabu

6 August 2006




SHARJAH — About 150 passengers of an Indian Airlines flight scheduled to leave Sharjah for Cochin were stranded at Sharjah International Airport for over 22 hours following a technical snag.


The flight, IC 976, scheduled to leave for Cochin at 9.30 pm on Friday night, left at 7.30 pm last evening.


According to the passengers, “we have been left in a lurch as airline officials failed to give us any proper reply regarding our flight status.”


"When we arrived at the airport on Friday, airline officials informed us that the flight was delayed and it would take off on Saturday morning at 10am. However, they refused to give us any reason for the delay and asked all passengers to return only the next morning,” a passenger disclosed prior to boarding his flight last evening.


Another passenger pointed out that some passengers were on visit visa and were thus forced to spend all night at the airport, as they could not exit the airport after having checked in.


He disclosed that when the passengers returned to the airport last morning, the airline officials once again informed them that the flight was further delayed and that it would leave for Cochin at 2.15 pm. Finally we boarded the flight in the afternoon. But just the aircraft started to taxi the pilot applied the brakes suddenly, according to one passenger.


He added, "We were asked to deplane and informed that the flight would leave in the evening at around 7 pm. We waited at the airport not knowing what to do or how long we would have to wait before our ordeal could end."

An Indian Airlines official when contacted confirmed the delay. He claimed that the flight was delayed because of a technical snag.


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http://www.hindu.com/2006/08/08/stories/2006080818140300.htm
MNC engineer uses fake e-ticket to enter airport


T. S. Shankar


Aug. 8, 2006


Alert CISF Sub-Inspector of Police latches on to the accused He was able to dupe security personnel by displaying the company identity card, which matched the name mentioned in the e-ticket. 


CHENNAI : E-ticketing may be fast catching up among the air travelling public. But, on Sunday evening, an airline e-ticket was "artificially created" by a senior executive engineer working for a South Korean automobile giant to gain entry to the Kamaraj Domestic Terminal (KDT) since the Airports Authority of India had banned entry of visitors for "security reasons".


Giving details of the misuse of modern tools of Information Technology, airport sources told The Hindu here on Monday that Soma Raju, a resident of Anna Nagar West, gained entry through the main entrance of the KDT by flaunting a faked Indian (formerly Indian Airlines) e-mail ticket to see off his parents who were bound for Hyderabad.


At the first entry point, Raju was allowed to enter, on showing the paper e-ticket.


He was stopped at the second checkpoint before the departure check-in area, where he was able to dupe security personnel by displaying the company identity card, which matched the name mentioned in the e-ticket.


However, Raju finished all the pre-departure formalities for his parents and saw them off before the security hold area.


At this juncture, a vigilant Sub-Inspector of Police of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Kesavan, saw this person and wondered how he gained entry into the terminal building.


As suspicion arose, the CISF Sub-Inspector intercepted and questioned Raju about where he was going.


Raju started fumbling and said he was going to Bangalore and started running towards the newly created Departure-II module.


Hot chase



After a hot chase by the CISF personnel, Raju was caught. On perusal of the "e-ticket", the CISF authorities found that it was "faked" and did not have the Passenger Reference Number.


The CISF then handed over Raju to Meenambakkam airport police, who registered cases under IPC sections of 448 (punishment of house trespass), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 421(dishonest or fraudulent removal or concealment of property to prevent distribution among creditors) and 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating).


Raju has been remanded to custody.


 



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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1706862.htm Indian scam targets would-be airline workers

Police in India have arrested a group of conmen for pretending to launch a new airline and tricking hundreds of would-be employees into paying expensive job application fees.


The elaborate fraud began in January with the announcement in newspaper advertisements of the launch of a new airline called FA Airways.


Then followed recruitment promotions on a well-designed website and invitations to attend job interviews at a Mumbai office building.


Police say the perpetrators of the scam collected fees of up to $1,000 each from around 400 hopefuls seeking a career in India's fast-growing aviation sector.


It is not clear how the plan unravelled but five men are now being held by for cheating and forgery.


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Conman floats airline, hundreds taken for a ride
S Ahmed Ali
[ 3 Aug, 2006 0316hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
 
 
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MUMBAI: It was a perfect con. First came the advertisements in January this year: business tycoon Narendra Goyal was set to launch a new airline called FA Airways. Then followed ads announcing recruitment for numerous posts.


For details, candidates were asked to write to fa-airways@net. The website had been designed with attention to every detail.


On an appointed date, Goyal, the executive director of FA Airways, then strode into a plush office at Twin Arcade on the Andheri-Kurla road where applicants were anxiously waiting for their interviews.


Satisfied with their qualifications, he handed out over 200 appointment letters, but not before charging Rs 25,000-50,000 per candidate.


Today, even as MIDC police unravel the scam, they have estimated that the amount of money swindled would go up to Rs 15 crore.


"The number of complaints could go up to 400, more and more who got appointment letters are coming forward," said investigating officer Pascal D'souza.


The brain behind it all was Mohsin Ismail Mullah, who is now cooling his heels in the MIDC police lock-up along with his four associates.


They have been identified as Irfan Mullah, his son, Abdul Kasam Shaikh, Alex Daniel and Nissar Ahmed Pirzade. All have been arrested on charges of cheating and forgery.


Mullah had planned the con down to the last detail. He had even adopted a fictitious name that bore a similarity to a leading personality in the aviation industry, Naresh Goyal.


He opened courses for candidates aspiring for jobs in the aviation industry to train them in various ground and air services including ticketing and hospitality.


Many of them were promised jobs as pursers and air hostesses in his airlines. One of the candidates, Sachin Koli, said, "I had just completed my ticketing diploma last year. Goyal interviewed me and promised me a starting salary of Rs 8,500. I was so happy but my dreams shattered when I learnt in June that I was one among several who were duped."


The fraud was finally brought to light in mid-June by Mullah's acquaintance Anil Tripathi. Tripathi was a milkman in Vasai who was lured by Mullah to invest in a business.


When Tripathi found that his funds were being misused, he approached the cops. According to the police, Mullah has several cheating and forgery cases against him at Vasai, Virar and Thane. 
 






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'Smoking airline' plan, as hotels stub out
By Julie Clothier for CNN



Tuesday, August 1, 2006; Posted: 9:26 p.m. EDT (01:26 GMT)


From September, smoking will be banned from Marriott hotels in North America. 
(CNN) -- As more and more hotels go completely smoke-free, a German entrepreneur is bucking the trend by launching an airline for those determined not to kick the habit.


From September, smoking will not be allowed in all 400,000 Marriott hotel and corporate apartment rooms in the U.S. and Canada.


Marriott says the ban has been spurred by public demand and will cover all guest rooms, restaurants, lounges, meeting rooms, public space and employee work areas.


Westin hotels in Australia and the Pacific region are also 100 percent smoke free from July 31 after the company's 77 North American hotels became smoke free in January this year.


But it is not all bad news for those determined to keep smoking.


Former German investment banker Alexander W. Schoppmann hopes his new airline, Smokers' International Airline (Smintair), will begin daily services on March 26 between Dusseldorf in Germany and Tokyo's Narita airport.


He says smoking will be permitted in all 138 seats -- 100 in business-class and 30 in first-class -- onboard the airline's two leased Boeing 747 aircraft.


Most airlines have at least 400 seats in a 747 and some have up to 500 seats. Schoppmann said Smintair business-class seats would have 70 inches (1.77 meters) of legroom, while first-class seats would have 80 inches (2.03 meters.)


There will be no seats in the plane's upper deck, which will be used as a lounge.


Flights will cost 6,500 euros ($8,300) return for business-class seats and 10,000 euros ($12,800) return for first-class seats.


Schoppmann said he has had the idea for a luxury airline with all the services airlines offered in the 1960s for about 25 years. He has been actively working to make it happen for nearly a year and a half.


"I have been a traveler for the best part of 50 years. I have seen the level of service go down and the price go up," he told CNN.


He believes the route between Germany and Japan will offer a service to bridge Europe and Asia, and hopes to eventually extend the Dusseldorf to Tokyo route to Shanghai in China.


"It's not so much the idea of letting someone smoke, it's more the idea of letting people who are coming on board, who are making decisions every day, they don't want to be told off and we are giving them a feeling of being on a luxury airline."


Schoppmann, who has smoked for 40 years, said each passenger would be able to use onboard Internet and would have their own 15-inch (38-centimeter) television screen.



Smintair plans to start flying in March next year.Non-smokers will also be encouraged to fly with Smintair.


"Allowing our guests to smoke is one of the freedoms we are happily prepared to grant," says the company's Web site.


"Non-smokers will find the cabin air more refreshing than on any other flight with any other airline, as Smintair adds fresh outside air to the conditioning system."


Anthony Concil, spokesman for the International Air Transport Association (IATA), told CNN it was up to individual airlines to determine what their smoking onboard policy was and the association did not have a stance either way.


IATA represents 265 airlines accounting for 94 percent of international air traffic.


He could not confirm whether Smintair had applied for IATA membership, but could see no reason for refusing the airline membership if it met safety and financial criteria.


In order to begin flying, airlines need an operations certificate issued by the government of the country in which they are based to show they meet safety and financial criteria, Concil said.


Ian Willmore, spokesman for UK-based anti-smoking lobby group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), said he hoped Smintair would not go ahead.


"Hopefully it will hit the ground faster than a flightless turkey," he told CNN. "I hope that it will be stopped by the German government as they move towards a smoking ban in public places. I hope that onboard a plane is considered a public place," he said.


He welcomed the move by hotel chains to ban smoking and said an increasing number of countries were banning smoking in public places.


"All evidence clearly shows that the times has come that smoke-free public places are here to stay. They are obviously the way of the future," Willmore told CNN.


"More and more people don't want a hotel room smelling of smoke. It takes a long time for the smell to go away."


 



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Uganda: Country Gets National Airline


 
The Monitor (Kampala)


July 31, 2006
Posted to the web July 31, 2006


Joseph Olanyo
Kampala


Uganda will soon be able to boast of its own airline. Come October 1, Victoria International Airways, (VIA Uganda) will start flying to the East African region route.


VIA Uganda will replace the defunct Uganda Airlines national carrier, which went out of business in 2001. However, because Uganda Airlines, which went into receivership, is not yet liquidated, the airline cannot be called Uganda Airlines.


Announcing the new airline's operations, the Minister of State for Investment, Prof. Semakula Kiwanuka, said the airline project initiated by President Yoweri Museveni is a joint venture between the government, Mr Andi Kunz from Switzerland and businessmen from South Africa and Malaysia.


Government, which will own 25 percent of the airline shares, has already injected $250,000 (Shs463m) in the airline, Kiwanuka said a consensus to run the airline, which has been issued with a provisional licence, was reached on July 27, by the Finance Minister Dr Ezra Suruma and the businessmen.


"The business plan of VIA Uganda comprises three phases, starting with the servicing of regional routes and eventually flying international routes," he said.


VIA Uganda will open an office at the Airlines House on Kimathi Avenue.


The $1m (about Shs2b) investment, brings some hope to Uganda, which has had no flag carrier for long.


The venture is a Joint Public Partnership (JPP). Kiwanuka said the airline's potential clients will have sufficient insight not to fall prey to the temptations of what he called 'urealistic fares' offered by the competition in an attempt to reinstate their monopoly in the market.



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Will they be acquiring some B737s from IC and A310s from AI?

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Lufthansa is stepping into this area ina  big way.


After Virgin is successfully runing Virgin Nigeria, Lufthansa now realsies that big money can be made in aviation in Africa. It will help in the technical side in Uganda and is actively going to start running an airline for Tanzania.


Of course Africa's best airlines continue to be South Africa Airways, Ethiopian Airlines and Kenya Airways. The advantage all these airlines have is that their core manegement teams are all Western educated and know how to run the show having a lot of experience in management. More importantly is that there is hardly any government interference.   



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