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Timetables and Flight Information
georgiapeach:
Oh my bad...Tuesday was the 29th...
I do remember Chateau saying something about how it worked better if they actually got in on the 28th...but you are right, I don't think we have any concrete evidence for that--but I'll leave this to you spreadsheet guys!
How dare those archeologists go traipsing off to non-Internet connected lands and not be able to be reached ! :lol:
apskip:
--- Quote from: Neobie on June 10, 2008, 12:11:07 AM ---Well, since we've got from the 25th to the 29th of April to play with for Leg Two, could it be possible that teams travelled on land through to Fortaleza? It's a twenty-hour bus ride (not unheard of on TAR), and flights would allow production to gain on the teams...
Or is Fortaleza simply a connection point (for production) for somewhere in the jungle? (This is presuming that the chainsaw is for the use of production to clear unforeseen obstacles, and not the use of the teams. Having a logging task in the Amazon would be sacrilegous in this age of global warming and what not!)
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Politely, Neobie, there is NO WAY that AR13 teams took a 20 hour bus from Salvador to Forteleza. Why would they do that with time at a premium and the flights as short as 100 minutes? Production gains on the teams by leaving before teams are released from the pitstop. They don't need a boondoggle bus ride for the teams while they fly to get ahead. It's just basic scheduling which the WRP production crew is clearly excellent at.
On your "What do you guys think?", I think that we haven't got any clarity for Bolivia yet and it's too early to call it one way or the other.
Neobie:
Just wondering... They put in those loooong rides to drive the racers crazy!
Flo in Vietnam (80min vs 24h), Lucknow to Johdpur, South Carolina to Alabama...
Chateau d If:
Yes, I think TAR does like to have teams take the slow route. There are lots of valid reasons to do that. And they do it often.
Neobie:
Looks like Darren Bunkley could really just be connecting through Lisbon!
Darren found his way to Siem Reap after Lisbon. If he was headed there directly, here's the fastest combination I could find, which happens to include the TP156 he was on (33 hours of economy through four countries in three days! Aye-yi-yi!):
Salvador, Brazil to Lisbon, Portugal
TP156: Friday 5.45pm to Saturday 5.45am
Lisbon, Portugal to Paris, France
AF2125: Saturday 8.20am to 11.50am
Paris, France to Bangkok, Thailand
TG931: Saturday 1.45pm to Sunday 6.00am
Bangkok, Thailand to Siem Reap, Cambodia
PG903: Sunday 8.00am to 9.00am
Salvador has few other non-stop flights to Europe (most going through Sao Paulo or Rio first), and even if he left earlier, on Friday morning, to catch the LAN flight from Santiago to Auckland, by Sunday 9am he'd make it to Sydney at best.
Of course, this transit could actually make TPTB consider putting Sequesterville in Portugal, and Darren could easily complete the Lisbon-Paris-Bangkok-Siem Reap legs on a later day! (Fortaleza also has non-stop flights to Lisbon.)
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