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patlini:
Hi all

today is a good day to check departures from Santiago as it is exactly a week from when the teams were spotted.

Peach  when Justin said teams were gone by 7ish did he mean to their flights, or into the departures lounge.

I am agreeing that the flights to either Sydney or Auckland seem the most feasible.

Attached is a list of flights leaving santiago tonight

redwings8831:
According to the list above, are we sure that they are leaving South America from Santiago. Couldn't Santiago just be the departure city, as they could have flown to Lima or Buenos Aires before leaving South America. Los Angeles could be a long shot also, but it seems like that would take way too long.

Neobie:
Looked up Wikipedia (you know how reliable that is)...

No flights from Rio, Lima or Florianopolis to the Asia/Pacific. Sao Paulo has a flight to Tokyo through New York, and a flight to Beijing through Madrid, but these are probably too far-fetched?

(Going to get some rest. :zzz See y'all in the morning!)

apskip:
No, Neobie, actually not too far-fetched but inefficient. Here are some diverse flight information that relates to the many questions before us:

1. How long from Auckland to Bangkok? Can it be done without stopping in Australia? 14 hours(starting from when the most efficient routing leaves Auckland, not when the connection coming in from Santiago would ideally be ready to support) and NO.

QF190  AKL SYD 1225 1450
QF 301 SYD BKK 1655 2315 Note that this gets in way too late to connect in to Siem Reap. a layover until morning is required.

If you combine this with the 4am arrival of LAN801 into AKL(13 hours flying time), you have an 8 hour layover, then the 14 hours here and the total is 35 hours.

2. What is another fast way of getting from South America to Bangkok?

That would be the Buenos Aires to CapeTown to Johannesburg to Kuala Lumpur routing:

EZE CPT 2020 0900
CPT JNB 1015 1215
JNB KUL 1340 0540
KUL BKK 0750 0900

This takes 25 hours in transit.
If you add in Santiago to Buenos Aires at the front end, then you add SCL EZE 1410 1705 and another 6 hours for a total of 31 hours.

Due to the layover needed in Auckland, the efficient connections of this route make it quicker than the trans-SouthPacific route.

3, What about a transNorthPacific route? This can be done from either EZE via JFK or SCL via DFW and on to Tokyo-Narita. The times are:

EZE JFK 2020 0605
JFK NRT 1150 1430+1

SCL DFW 2115 0610
DFW NRT 1225 1505+1

then either one goes NRT BKK 1850 2355

This is 40 hours from Buenos Aires or 39 hours from Santiago, neither one of which is remotely competitive. Scratch these as possibilities.

4. My Conclusions:
If the goal were to get from Santiago to Bangkok in the quickest possible way, then they should have gone via South Africa. However, I think Bertram van Munster wanted to do something daring and unexpected, something that nobody would ever think he could do. The transSouthPacific route means that criterion perfectly and that's why I think it's what was actually done. I actually envisioned a leg in New Zealand or Australia. Who knows? It may have happened. If they went straight through to Bangkok, then I can say one thing with high probability. World Race Prodcutions will have scheduled in a REST DAY on either side of the Pacific so that teams are not totally burned out. It may have been in Santiago or just before it and it may also have been in Bangkok. I doubt that it was in Siem Reap where it is harder to get lost in a crowd.

Mrs Shrek:
Are flights to Cambodia only possible via Bangkok, or could Singapore be another possible transit point on the way to Siem Reap?

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