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Re: TAR 20 Transport
« Reply #200 on: May 07, 2012, 01:50:11 PM »
I am going to comment separately on the two major points Dr. Rox has made. First, that the reason teams were on the second flight is that Phil and the WRP staff were on the earliest one. I say that Phil and WRP staff were about 24 hours ahead of the F3 in departing from Osaka. There were these flights:

DL278 2057
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JL78   2124

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Re: TAR 20 Transport
« Reply #201 on: May 07, 2012, 02:08:11 PM »
My second comment is on Dr. Rox's assertion that teams flew Kochi to Singapore to Shanghai to Hiroshima. I agree with the first 2 legs but say that it difficult to tell about the third leg. To get the schedule we are seeing (departure Dec. 16 on SQ467 COK SIN at 2345 0742+1), there is a choice of Shanghai versus Seoul as the next connecting point. My opinion (at this point it is only that) is that Seoul was the connection. that means that the flights were SIN ICN  SQ16   0932+1 1647+1  to  ICN HIJ  OZ162 1836+1 1958+1. This arrived essentially at 8pm.

The combination one can infer from Dr. Rox's proposal starts with SIN PVG and that can be on any of several flights leaving from 9am until 1039am. That is where the inconclusiveness starts. Normally flight information is available on when flights depart and arrive. however, for that date and flight MU293 the listing if for departure at 1746+1 and arrival at 1548+1. Hmm, that's quite a bit impossible, particularly since Hiroshima is in a time zone one hour ahead of Shanghai. The normal scheduled time of arrival is 810pm, which is the only piece of data lending credence to Dr. Rox's hypothesis. Maybe he's right and teams flew through Shanghai, maybe he's not. It cannot be determined without further evidence. 
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Re: TAR 20 Transport
« Reply #202 on: May 07, 2012, 02:27:00 PM »
I am going to comment separately on the two major points Dr. Rox has made. First, that the reason teams were on the second flight is that Phil and the WRP staff were on the earliest one. I say that Phil and WRP staff were about 24 hours ahead of the F3 in departing from Osaka. There were these flights:

DL278 2057
HA450 2104
JL78   2124

Just so I make sure I understand what you are saying, apskip, are you saying that Phil and WRP crew left Osaka on the evening of Dec 18th and NOT the evening of Dec 19th as I believe to be the case? I am taking about the calendar date in Japanese time, btw, not Hawaiian time.
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Re: TAR 20 Transport
« Reply #203 on: May 07, 2012, 03:47:14 PM »
I am going to comment separately on the two major points Dr. Rox has made. First, that the reason teams were on the second flight is that Phil and the WRP staff were on the earliest one. I say that Phil and WRP staff were about 24 hours ahead of the F3 in departing from Osaka. There were these flights:

DL278 2057
HA450 2104
JL78   2124

Just so I make sure I understand what you are saying, apskip, are you saying that Phil and WRP crew left Osaka on the evening of Dec 18th and NOT the evening of Dec 19th as I believe to be the case? I am taking about the calendar date in Japanese time, btw, not Hawaiian time.

All my dates as reported in this thread are in local time. What point would it be to translate that to US East Coast or Central time?

I believe that the flights from Japan left Osaka around 9pm Japanese time on Dec. 19 and arrived in Honolulu on either side of Dec. 19 Honolulu time. This is of course possible because Japan time is UTC+9 AND Honolulu time is UTC-10. The total difference of 19 hours gives flights ample time to "arrive" before they "departed". Another way of saying this is that when you cross the International Date Line eastward you push your clock back one day.

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Re: TAR 20 Transport
« Reply #204 on: May 07, 2012, 03:57:33 PM »
I am going to comment separately on the two major points Dr. Rox has made. First, that the reason teams were on the second flight is that Phil and the WRP staff were on the earliest one. I say that Phil and WRP staff were about 24 hours ahead of the F3 in departing from Osaka. There were these flights:

DL278 2057
HA450 2104
JL78   2124

Just so I make sure I understand what you are saying, apskip, are you saying that Phil and WRP crew left Osaka on the evening of Dec 18th and NOT the evening of Dec 19th as I believe to be the case? I am taking about the calendar date in Japanese time, btw, not Hawaiian time.

All my dates as reported in this thread are in local time. What point would it be to translate that to US East Coast or Central time?

I believe that the flights from Japan left Osaka around 9pm Japanese time on Dec. 19 and arrived in Honolulu on either side of Dec. 19 Honolulu time. This is of course possible because Japan time is UTC+9 AND Honolulu time is UTC-10. The total difference of 19 hours gives flights ample time to "arrive" before they "departed". Another way of saying this is that when you cross the International Date Line eastward you push your clock back one day.

I am really sorry to be a pain, but exactly just who flew to Hawaii on the evening of Dec 19. Was it the teams or was it Phil and the WRP crew? If you mean that the teams flew on the 19th........then you must mean that Phil and the WRP crew flew on the 18th......per your 24 hours lead time statement above? None of your flight schedules have departure dates in them so it is very hard to understand just exactly what you mean.
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Re: TAR 20 Transport
« Reply #205 on: May 07, 2012, 04:02:38 PM »
apskip........

Here is your Kochi>Hiroshima itinerary, but there is no date to this schedule. What day do you propose it occuring?

Flying to Hiroshima appears more probable now. I would not do a round-trip on the bullet train from Osaka to Hiroshima and back UNLESS there were bad flight connections into Hiroshima. the one above is OK except for leaving in the evening. I have another here that also leaves in the evening but gets there 4 hours elapsed time quicker than any of the best Cochin to Osaka flights I have found: 

COK SIN SQ267 2345 0742+1
SIN ICN  SQ16   0932+1 1647+1
ICN HIJ  OZ162 1836+1 1958+1

However, due to the evening departures, I believe that the flight combination starting in Cochin will be the one actually used because it departs and arrives in the morning and the one above does neither and earlier one in my prior post in this thread depart in the evening.

I would like to give kudos to jacobsk68 who hypothesized that Singapore would be a connection on the route. That will be true if teams fly this route through Singapore and Seoul to get to Hiroshima.

Here is your Osaka>Honolulu itinerary.....again there is no date mentioned........

I am going to comment separately on the two major points Dr. Rox has made. First, that the reason teams were on the second flight is that Phil and the WRP staff were on the earliest one. I say that Phil and WRP staff were about 24 hours ahead of the F3 in departing from Osaka. There were these flights:

DL278 2057
HA450 2104
JL78   2124

So what are the departure dates for these two flight itinerairies?  That is if you dont mind posting them?
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Re: TAR 20 Transport
« Reply #206 on: May 07, 2012, 05:48:35 PM »
Let me remind you that I have essentially volunteered to do the work normally part of the    
The Amazing Race 20 » Timeline & Spoiler Summary.

I previously in this thread carefully tracked the dates through the departure in India, which would have been Dec. 16 (actually Dec. 15 at 2345 for the first flight of the combination to Hiroshima) or Dec. 17 (actually Dec. 16 at 2345). The difference is an extended pit stop in the Kochi area. I believe this happened, so the departure Dec. 16 at 2345 relates to that.

Going forward, arrival would be the evening of Dec. 17 in Hiroshima and arrival Osaka the afternoon of Dec. 17. With an extended pit stop, I see teams as heading for KIX early afternoon Dec. 19. The flights are the evening of Dec. 19 and arrivals in Honolulu the morning of Dec. 19. That's my timeline.

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Re: TAR 20 Transport
« Reply #207 on: May 07, 2012, 05:51:43 PM »
The Pitstop time in Osaka was TWO hours. :)
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Re: TAR 20 Transport
« Reply #208 on: May 07, 2012, 06:37:01 PM »
I'm in the midst of rewatching the finale from the I Tunes download, and there are quite a few time cues in the first part of the Hiroshima-Osaka leg that help point to the flights taken by the final four teams.

First, we're told about Rachel-Dave's release time in Cochi, 1:51 pm. Since teams in India have to purchase their tickets from a travel agency (this goes back to TAR 1, remember) before they arrive at the airport that should help narrow down when the teams left. It should also provide information as to when Phil and his camera crew left Cochi because of the daylight for Phil's stand ups in Japan (He had none in Hiroshima and his first one was the game show in Osaka). The travel agent for Rachel-Dave quite clearly says that their arrival in Hiroshima would be at 8:10 the next evening, and that it was the fastest flight available.

We don't get any help from the Amazing Red Line on the Bing globe, but we get some clues as to the arrival time based on the fact that teams had to buy tickets to take a shuttle bus to the train station to get to the island, and had to buy tickets at the train station (several edits tell us 10:20 was the next departure, and then a 21:55 (9:55 pm) time on a digital clock in the train station.) Then we also have the time of the last ferry departure that evening and the first departure the next morning; we ought to be able to work backwards from this to see if just one flight fits all of this together. (I personally suspect it does; and it should be possible to get an estimate of the time it takes the shuttle bus to get to the train station.) I'm basing this on what had to be done in other seasons at times to reconstruct timeline elements, but I think it likely it'll be possible to do it.

(I'm not going to rub it in over the teams flying into Japan at Hiroshima or Osaka...it made sense to me for them to do so this time, once we knew about the Osaka pit stop, since the show has a pattern in recent seasons to pick airline flights that have very few or only one option for the teams, and to manipulate the pit stop releases to force those options while giving production a head start to the next destination. It avoids a lot of bunch in mid-leg and artificial HOO.)
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Re: TAR 20 Transport
« Reply #209 on: May 07, 2012, 08:50:46 PM »
The Pitstop time in Osaka was TWO hours. :)
OK, Peach, I don't often question what you say and this is not one of those times. I do ask that you identify where in the timeline kept up by me in this thread the extra day happens (to replace the one that a 2 hour pitstop frees up). The only way that 2 hour pitstop and departure from Osaka on Dec. 19 in the evening can be reconciled is in Kochi with a much longer extended pitstop so that departure from there is actually 2345 on Dec. 17, arrival in Hiroshima is Dec. 18 around 8pm and the pitstop in Osaka starts late afternoon of Dec. 19. Is that your understanding of what happened? 


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Re: TAR 20 Transport
« Reply #210 on: May 07, 2012, 09:42:23 PM »
Thanks for posting the dates, apskip. Aren't we all volunteers here?

From eyewitness accounts, the Osaka Pit Stop started for R/D about 2 pm on Dec 19th. From the episode, it ended for R/D about 4:15pm on Dec 19.
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Re: TAR 20 Transport
« Reply #211 on: May 07, 2012, 10:26:29 PM »
How long was the flight from Osaka to Honolulu supposed to take?  I noticed Art/JJ saying they had a 12 hour flight and were going to get some sleep, but that doesn't add up.  The HA 450 flight (by the sign they show) departs at 2115 which would be 0215 in Hawaii.  Given from bspencer's pics D/R were at the towers at 1013, this points to a ~7hour flight.

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Re: TAR 20 Transport
« Reply #212 on: May 07, 2012, 10:35:29 PM »
No idea, apskip.

I am under the impression that the longest PitStop this season was about 16 hours, but :duno:
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Re: TAR 20 Transport
« Reply #213 on: May 08, 2012, 01:39:29 AM »
bcp19, I haven't gotten to that part of replaying the episode yet, but as I recall the teams were told they were booked on flights that arrived early in the daytime of the 19th (Hawaii time) my mind is saying after 6 am (6:30?, 6:50?) but there's always the possibility that teams went to an unaired route marker that was edited out of Phil's recitation of the pit stop release clue, and we have no idea one way or the other. However, if the teams had known before they arrived in Hawaii what they had to find, then we wouldn't likely have had teams asking their taxi driver if they knew what the place was that was described in the clue, and the teams likely would have had an address or a place name that would have gotten them there directly.

This season has been like an early season where a timeline had to be constructed after the season finished airing, and there were willing Racers to help reconstruct the timeline details.

I'm not surprised by the info Peach mentioned about the longest pitstop not having been more than 16 hours this season. I think teams had to have spent a lot of time this season in airport layovers (unaired) in order for the show to get teams into and out of South America, Africa, and India much less to Japan, and for many of these areas, there really weren't direct flights at all. And given the total time for filming.
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Re: TAR 20 Transport
« Reply #214 on: May 08, 2012, 09:43:26 AM »
How long was the flight from Osaka to Honolulu supposed to take?  I noticed Art/JJ saying they had a 12 hour flight and were going to get some sleep, but that doesn't add up.  The HA 450 flight (by the sign they show) departs at 2115 which would be 0215 in Hawaii.  Given from bspencer's pics D/R were at the towers at 1013, this points to a ~7hour flight.

You are pretty close, bcp19. It is scheduled as a 7 hour 45 minute flight. It was about a 7.5 hour flight for Dec. 19.

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Re: TAR 20 Transport
« Reply #215 on: May 08, 2012, 02:13:26 PM »
  Info from 12/19:
HA 450 Flight Information Route:    From (KIX) Osaka, JP to (HNL) Honolulu, HI, US   
Duration:    7h 16m 

Scheduled Departure: Scheduled Arrival:
9:15 PM - Mon 19-Dec-2011  9:35 AM - Mon 19-Dec-2011 
Actual Departure:  Actual Arrival: 
9:16 PM - Mon 19-Dec-2011  9:32 AM - Mon 19-Dec-2011 

 
 
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Re: TAR 20 Transport
« Reply #216 on: May 09, 2012, 02:26:43 PM »
I think a nice summary of all actual flight information for AR20 is warranted. Here it is:

Nov. 26 LAX MIA
AA276 2323 0648+1
or AA1804 0001 (actually Nov. 27) 0734+1

Nov. 27 MIA EZE
AR1303 0900 2024
or AA1961 1109 2150

Nov. 28 AEP SLA
AR2450 0625 0840
or 4M4150 0853 1101

leg 1 tasks leading from Salta to finish in Cafayete

Nov. 29 start leg 2 in Cafayete, 18 hour bus to Buenos Aires

Dec. 30 leg 2 tasks in Buenos Aires

Dec. 1 fly B.A. to ASU PU366 1149 1230   to Montevideo, PU705 MVD ASU 1345 1435, leg 3 tasks in Asuncion

Dec. 2 pit stop releases in the evening

Dec. 3 ASU GRU PZ716 0415 0701
GRU FCO AZ675 1715 0731+1 connecting with AZ1413 FCO TRN 0920+1 1048+1 (note-Mark/Bopper on AZ1429 1020+1 1142+1)

Dec. 4 Torino leg

Dec. 5 TRN to Ehrwald, Austria by train departures vary; all arrivals by morning of Dec. 6

Dec. 6 Fussen leg

Dec. 7 Fussen to MUC, MUC IST TK1636 1836 2202, IST GYD TK338 2335 0410+1

Dec. 8 Baku leg

Dec. 9 GYD IST J275 1000 1048, IST NBO TK607 1835 0135+1, NBO JRO PW724 0800+1 0900+1, charter flights to Ngrongoro Crater leave at 0930, 0945, 1000 with 2 teams each

Dec.10 Ngrongoro Crater leg

Dec. 11 Extended Pit stop (total is more than 24 hours)

Dec. 12 second Tanzania leg

Dec. 13 Vanessa/Ralph JRO NBO PW723 0600 0700 or PW721 0915 1015  NBO DOH QR535 1359 1915   DOH COK 9W555 2320 0605+1
Other teams JRO DAR PW435 0900  DAR NBO QR535 1138 1256  NBO DOH QR535 1359 1913  DOH COK 9W555 2320 0605+1

Dec. 14 Kochi area leg 9

Dec. 15 Extended pit stop

Dec. 16 Kochi area leg 10

Dec. 17 COK SIN MU467 2345 0645+1  SIN ICN SQ16 0932+1 1633+1   ICN HIJ OZ162 1839+1 2004+1
Or         COK SIN MU467 2345 0645+1  SIN PVG SQ828 0736+1 1246+1 (or 2 later flights)  PVG HIJ MU293 1748+1 2010+1 scheduled, actual unknown

Dec. 19 Hiroshima/Osaka leg

Dec. 19 minimal pit stop

Dec. 19 HA450 2116 0932
 
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Re: TAR 20 Transport
« Reply #217 on: May 16, 2012, 01:16:51 PM »
Thanks apskip!
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