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Timetables and Flight Information
apskip:
Chateau, you are quite right to do an extension to Salvador on Wednesday April 23. the flights in my timetable only went to Sao Paulo. The extensions gives the opportunity to take a fresh look at flights. Your combination UA843/LU750/G3 1830 for the United flight group looks fine.
There are two American flight groups, I am aware of, through Miami and through Dallas. The former is LAX MIA AA252 355 2142 connecting in Miami with AA995 GRU 2330 0830+1, then connecting in Sao Paulo with GRU SSA JJ3174 1035 1250. The other one through Dallas is LAX DFW AA2446 1250 1740 connecting in Dallas with DFW GRU AA963 1945 0750+1. This gives teams flight JJ3174 as a backup with the main chance being GRU SSA JJ3896 0830 1055.
So, my question to you is why a team would take a route through Rio de Janeiro that can do no better than arrive at approximately the same time as another route that could be 95 mintues earlier? With full information unless there were weather reports indicating delays at Sao Paulo and not Rio, it would not be a logical choice. The only possibility is that American Airlines had limited choices to offer teams. Your route's only advantage is that it does allow for the sighting of a few teams in the Rio airport.
Chateau d If:
Yeah, I was not very comfortable with the arrangement. I suspect there were disruptions in the flight schedules due to the Porto Alegre airport being closed on the morning of the 23rd. The spoiler-Cordoba flight was diverted away from Porto Alegre. And the tourist who blogged wrote that that flight was supposed to go on to Sao Paulo but went to Rio instead where he saw teams.
It's a bit of mess.
I only put in one AA group. Two AAs could well have happened. :duno:
We need some detective work on which teams were seen together and where. I suspect the UA group is not very happy and they get the bad times from 19 BC.
apskip:
The Salvador arrival time for the UA group being 4 hours later than the earliest possible AA group, I am sure that the UA group is really unhappy about it. Presumably those were the last or stupidest teams to arrive at LAX.
georgiapeach:
I can tell you that no filming permits were issued for Miami. However, they apparently should have also been issued for Chicago as well, and weren't, so this may not be helpful....
apskip:
EPISODE 3 FLIGHTS
I have taken a fresh look at the flights from Fortaleza to either Santa Cruz or LaPaz Bolivia for episode 3, based on looking at each leg through Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, and Lima. This is a very difficult route with long connections. Although the distances are not like Argentina to Moscow or Ushuaia to Maputo, it will take 12 hours or more to do this. Here are the possiblities for Fortaleza to Santa Cruz:
Best if pitstop release time is in the afternoon is JJ3849 FOR GRU 1515 1835 connecting in SaoPaulo with G37460 GRU VVI 2200 0115. There is a slightly earlier alternate fOR GRU - G31883 1440 1810.
The one most teams are likely to get is JJ3325 FOR GRU 0730 1130 connecting in Sao Paulo with 5L301 GRU VVI 1600 1730.
If a leading team is released by midnight, then they could get JJ3323 FOR GRU 0130 0500 connecting in Sao Paulo with AR1263 SRU EZE 0630 0925 and connecting in Buenos Aires with AR1362 EZE VVI 1115 1320.
Other routes from GRU to VVI through EZE are inferior; only this one above works for AR13.
For FOR LPB there are few options and the best is taking the middle option for get on 5L301 which goes GRU VVI and then continues on to LPB after a lengthy stopover, arriving at 2115; summarizing, it is 5L301 GRU LPB 1600 2115. In front of that you have JJ3325 FOR GRU 0730 1130.
Another option to LPB is to go through LIM. We start FOR GRU with JJ3325 0730 1130. Next is GRU LIM LP780 1450 1810. finally, we have 5L1405 LIM LPB 2130 0015 or 3 hours later than the prior combination.
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