Topic: Very long Flight legs

[whoistheg]

I have done my fare share of travelling in economy and overnight/long
flights but when i saw Season 2 Episode 3 flight, from Brazil to South Africa
and how they all had to be routed via Europe my heart went out to them.

I cannot believe they could not just fly across the South Atlantic Ocean.

I especially felt really sorry for Peggy & Claire who's flight went

Brazil -> NYC -> Lon -> South Africa. I think that flight would of killed
me.

I'm constantly amazed how well everyone handles all the flights and lack of sleep.

We did 14 days in Japan and we were on the go most of the time and it was very hard

[theschnauzers]

At the time, the only direct flight out of Sao Paulo to South Africa was every other day; which was why all the teams except Peggy and Claire flew to Europe for connections to South Africa.

Peggy and Claire got done in by a weather delay into London, and security screenings (that Race was filmed just a few months after 9/11) which prevented them from making the connection that would have gotten them into Cape Town at about the same time as the other teams. The best they could get then was a flight 24 hours later.

Since then, the schedules changed, and when teams had to fly from South America to South Africa for TAR AS (I believe), they were able to get direct flights. The longest leg on record though, was the uber-leg in TAR 9, which had teams going from Patagonia in Argentina to Moscow to Germany on one leg.

[apskip]

At the time, the only direct flight out of Sao Paulo to South Africa was every other day; which was why all the teams except Peggy and Claire flew to Europe for connections to South Africa.

Peggy and Claire got done in by a weather delay into London, and security screenings (that Race was filmed just a few months after 9/11) which prevented them from making the connection that would have gotten them into Cape Town at about the same time as the other teams. The best they could get then was a flight 24 hours later.

Since then, the schedules changed, and when teams had to fly from South America to South Africa for TAR AS (I believe), they were able to get direct flights. The longest leg on record though, was the uber-leg in TAR 9, which had teams going from Patagonia in Argentina to Moscow to Germany on one leg.

I looked at this when we were attempting to track the leg after Paraguay. It is possible now to go to either Johannesburg (AR11 did exactly that) or Capetown nonstop from South America now, as the Schnauzers has indicated.

On AR2, leg 3 I have a rare disagreement with the Schnauzers. Peggy and Claire lost because the only flight they could get to connect in Europe was via New York City. The time delay in doing that is what prevented them from getting to South Africa on the day that all the other teams did.

[Hooky]

The longest leg on record though, was the uber-leg in TAR 9, which had teams going from Patagonia in Argentina to Moscow to Germany on one leg.

You mean from Brazil to Moscow to Germany, right? Or are you referring to Season 5?