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Timetables and Flight Information
Chateau d If:
Thanks Neobie. :tup: Now I don't have to feel bad for speculating in the spoiler thread. ;)
puddin:
--- Quote from: Neobie on May 11, 2008, 10:57:47 PM ---
Conclusion? Phil is probably racing to La Paz with the teams; which makes Santa Cruz the previous leg?
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Sounds good to me Neobie, thank you!! Gosh the dates are so tight....
Just checked the weather underground and sure enough it looks like out Santa Cruz blogger did not mix her days up.
April 29th @ 9:00 AM Thunderstorms and Rain
Neobie:
One problem cropped up... when is the Santa Cruz Pit Stop? Is there even one?
If the teams have checked into Santa Cruz by Monday night, Phil could easily have taken the Tuesday 7am flight to La Paz instead of waiting until noon. It hasn't started raining then according to Andrew & Michelle.
But if Phil was waiting around in Santa Cruz for the teams to check in on Tuesday morning, that means teams check out twelve hours later in the evening, and won't the setting up of tasks in La Paz (on Tuesday) be one day too early?
What if it were a continuous "Bolivia" leg that involves both Santa Cruz and La Paz (28/29/30 April)? Even if Sao Paulo/Salvador was one continuous leg as well (22/23/24 April), we'd still have three full days of 25/26/27 April to run Legs 2 and 3, totally possible since the distances are not far...
apskip:
--- Quote from: Neobie on May 11, 2008, 10:57:47 PM ---Let's assume Phil wants to get from La Paz to the Asia/Pacific; flight-wise it makes sense - a connection through Santa Cruz is one of the best options.
The thing is, there are no flights on Tuesdays from La Paz to either Santiago or Buenos Aires.
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There are such flights, although they technically land after midnight. I did not bother to mention them because they are not reasonable compared to the route of flying back to SantaCruz to get on to Santiago. Also, I do not subscribe to your Buenos Aires route although I pointed it out a long time ago, since there are too few teams in the race at this point to warrant having two separate transSouthPacific flights. I believe all teams will be bunched on one flight.
One of the flights from LaPaz to Santiago is on American Airlines and via Miami, which is the long way to do it. It leaves at 0645 and arrives at 0625 the next morning. The better option is TACA to Lima: TA38 0855 0945 LPB LIM TA33 2145 0205 LIM SCL
apskip:
With a little time to spend on refinement of prior data, I have developed the case of where that is new teams might have gone if they were just connecting through Dubai airport. To the best of my knowledge, right now we don't know whether they stopped in Dubai (which has been done multiple times already) or went right on (more likely). There are 5 incoming flights I have listed:
0945 AI nonstop
2155 AI nonstop
2245 AI nonstop
1000 QR connection
0245 9W connection
I expect that an allowance of just over 1 hour is appropriate for an international connection in Dubai. That would give 5 time slots lasting for up to 3 hours each. Under each one I am listing the flights to places never before visited by the Amazing Race or flights to Gatwick(35 miles south of London) and CDG (12 miles northwest of Paris) where you could easily jump off to places other than London or Paris.
0000
Harare 0030
Lampaca 0035
CDG 0100
Nairobi 0105 I made an exception for Nariobi as I want to see AR13 go there
Baku 0110
0400
Alexandria, Egypt 0415
Beirut 0440
Addis Ababa 0445
Riyadh 0445
1100
Zaragoza Spain 1105
Nairobi 1120
CDG 1140
Tashkent 1230
Beirut 1255
CDG 1255
1200
repeat last 3 above
Perm, Siberia 1345
CDG 1350
Manchester 1435
Khartoum 1440
Gatwick 1500
CDG 1500
2300
See those for 0000
This does not mean that AR13 can't go to Frankfurt, Zurich, Rome, Vienna, Athens, Moscow, Istanbul, Cairo, Johannesburg, Amman, Amsterdam, Newcastle, Damascus, Abidjan, Casablanca, Nice, Munich, Milan, Birmingham, Seychelles, Entebbe, CapeTown, Hamburg, Jeddah, Lagos, Venice, Luton, Dusseldorf, or Asmara. It certainly can, although I hope that it won't(except for the new places that in the wrong time slots) and will go to one of the new places in the right time slots.
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