Anybody have any idea what flights they took? I've some possibilities over here.
http://fellowshipbrethrensg.freeforums.org/amazing-race-australia-australia-vs-new-zealand-t9-10.html
The flights are a bit confusing as according to the episode they flew two flights via Melbourne and Sydney.
The only practical flight to Melbourne from Christchurch is on NZ 891 departing at 6:05am and arriving at 7:20am.
From Melbourne to Sydney there is a host of flights. Jetstar JQ 504 departs at 9:05am and landed at 10:52am with a 22-min delay. It's possible that this flight was overbooked, leaving some times to get on either Virgin Australia or Qantas which departed at 10am and landed at 11:26am and 11:35am respectively.
We know from RFF they then flew via Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap.
What I don't understand is why teams flew such a roundabout route, as they were flights from Melbourne to Singapore and Bangkok to Siem Reap. They could have even flew to Auckland and from there take a flight via Singapore (they flew Auckland - Singapore - Siem Reap in TAR 13).
Okay firstly
FLIGHTS: CHC → REP via SYD, SGN
VH772 SYD-SGN, VH815 SGN-REP
here
secondly according to
this, you are wrong and SGN is the closest and why on earth would Bangkok/Singapore be the closest the flight schedules are basically going back over eachother and SGN is more streamlined
ALSO
SIN-REP=13 flights weekly
(3 Jetstar Asia, 13 Silkair)
BKK-REP=56 flights weekly
(21 Cambodia Angkor Air, 35 Bangkok Airways)
SGN-REP=48 flights weekly
(28 Cambodia Angkor Air, 20 Vietnam Airlines)
HOWEVER this in no way means there is an advantage of SGN over BKK BECAUSE VN/K6 codeshare widely (because K6 is owned by VN) and that does not happen to the same extent in BKK