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Timetables and Flight Information
sunnyca:
--- Quote from: apskip on August 20, 2008, 05:19:55 PM ---It's time for a new updated timeline. Key new assumptions are that Delhi tasks will end on 5/7, making the release from the pitstop Thursday May 8, and that the missing pitstop is Astana, Kazakhstan. The Delhi day of the week is extremely significant because there is a nonstop flight once per week flight from Delhi to Almaty, Kazakhstan but only on Saturday night. AR13 teams did not wait around for 2 days to get there more directly.
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5/8 leg 8 begins
Delhi to Almaty Kazakhstan
This is one of the most interesting set of flight choices ever, all late at night and all taking more than 22 hours to reach ALA:
LH767 DEL FRA 0225 0710 connecting in Frankfurt with
LH646 FRA ALA 1305 0110+1 after a brief stop in Astana
BA142 DEL LHR 0210 0655 connecting in Heathrow with
BA7591 LHR ALA 1330 0140+1
AI310 DEL ICN 2315 1225+1 via Hong Kong, connecting in Seoul-Incheon with
Asiana577 ICN ALA 1810 2155
All of these are late night departures and late night arrivals. It is conceivable that to save monstrous airfares, WRP may have gotten a chartered jet.
5/9 teams arrive in Almaty in the wee hours or just prior to midnight; tasks take all day; then pitstop
5/10 leg 9 begins with choice of flights (not a long railroad trip) from Almaty to Astana:
KC751 0615 0810
KC851 0940 1125
KC813 1255 1440
KC818 1610 1755
KC878 1810 1955
KC855 1910 2055
followed by tasks in Astana area after arrival; pitstop (could be 24 hours)
NOTE that this leg is SPECULATION at this point. It is the most logical possibilty, but there are many ways to get from Almaty to Moscow.
5/11 leg 10 begins; fly Astana to Moscow KC873 TSE SVO 2100 0220+1
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ok, i'm just absorbing all this, so pardon me if you covered this - but isn't it possible to get to almaty from delhi with just one stop via dubai? this would explain the dubai sighting and not take 2 days..
you mentioned the flight getting into to dubai from delhi at 9.30 or 9.45 on thurs 5/8, then there's a flight they can catch to almaty leaving at 11.20am?
http://www.centralasiatourism.com/PDF-files/Almaty.pdf
this timetable says effective june 8, though, so maybe it was somewhat different in may...
apskip:
sunnyca, your observation is right on. I did forget about the flight combinations via Dubai that do not come up in standard flight information systems because Air Astana is not a recognized carrier in them. By going back in this thread to probably early May, there is a post by me on the flight possiblities. None of the nonstop flights from Delhi ot Dubai seem to fir in conjunction with KC896 DBX ALA 1120 1740 beacuse none arrives by 1030 into Dubai. So, it is necessary to look at combinations to get to Dubai in time. The best one is Qatar 233 0500 0620 DEL DOH connecting with Qatar 100 0755 1000 DOH DXB, which I recall is a bus because that short distance can't take 2 hours in a plane.
Put all 3 of the above flights together and yuo hav departure at 0500 from Delhi and arrival in Almaty at 1740. You also get maybe an hour where teams could be spotted in Dubai airport.
The only hitch with this is whether teams could get into their pitstop in Delhi the afternoon of May 7 well before 4pm so there is time to get to the airport after release from the Delhi pitstop.
I have modified my most recent Timeline accordingly.
sunnyca:
cool!! :yess:
yep, there's probably many ways to get into dubai from india - popular destination! - including the one in your may post -
Delhi to Dubai nonstop flights:
AI9897 DEL DXB 0745 0945
i just checked - this one's still running too, except it leaves at 7.50am now.
apskip:
sunnyca, I missed AI9897 because it shows up on Air India and on broad-based flight information systems as having no flights on Thursdays in August through to near the end of September. However, I have discovered that the reason for this is that those flights are already completely booked and therefore do not show up when a search for applicable flights is made. It is likely that AI9897 was flying on May 8, so it can be used as a preferred alternative to the Qatar Airways flights on my Timeline.
Chateau d If:
Here are the flights that I think we will see the teams use to start the first leg. This is a concoction of some flights we already know about and some new ones. The re-working of this flight info comes about from the new understanding gained from the previews that teams do not stop for activities in Sao Paulo after all. I was told that they flew to Sao Paulo by a United gate agent who was on hand when they sold them tickets to Sao Paulo. I guess he did not know about the rest.
The United Airlines Group:
UA 116 leaving LAX at 12:55 pm arriving ORD at 6:55 pm
or UA 843 leaving LAX at 2:05 pm arriving ORD at 8:05 pm
Then UA 843 leaving ORD at 9:32 pm arriving GRU at 10:05 am
Then G3 1978 leaving GRU at 12:50 pm arriving SSA at 3:05 pm (canceled or missed)
Doing this instead: LU 750 leaving GRU at 12:40 pm arriving GIG at 1:45 pm
Then G3 1830 leaving GIG at 2:35 pm arriving SSA at 4:30 pm
The American Airlines Group:
AA 252 leaving LAX at 1:55 pm arriving MIA at 9:42 pm
Then AA 905 leaving MIA at 11:10 pm arriving GIG at 8:30 am
Then G3 1600 leaving GIG at 10:30 am arriving SSA at 12:30 pm
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