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The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation
georgiapeach:
More info about our Singapore sighting of Geoff and Trish on the way to Cochin:
Mrs Shrek brought us the info about the original blog post HERE.
The EXIF data from the photo suggested that the date was 5/31.
I wrote to Aravind about his blog shortly after that, and he has just returned from vacation and has very kindly has answered all of my (and others) questions about time and date and flight info in a new BLOG UPDATE.
In summary, Aravind says that they saw the teams on June 1, not 5/31 as we suspected.
The flight was Cathay Pacific # CX739 which departed HK approx 11:20 AM on June 1.
In Singapore, our racers booked the next Air India flight from Singapore to Cochin, which was scheduled to depart in approx 3 hours from either Terminal 2 or 3.
Many many thanks to Aravind for taking the time to help us out! :yourock: :thankyou:
I am double checking the dates just to be sure.... :angel: (see below)
georgiapeach:
Checking airline data:
Cathay Pacific's flight 739 is listed as having an arrival time of 15:05 into Singapore.
When I do a search for Sunday flights (ie June 1) I get this info which does NOT correspond with "leaving 3 hours later"...
Air India Singapore--Cochin is
But checking Sat flights (ie May 31) I found this which does correlate:
Note the arrival time of one day later in Cochin, as well.
Based on the EXIF data saying 5/31, and Aravind's info of the teams leaving 3 hours later with no flights showing for me with the later times on Sundays (note that I am doing a future search and not a search of the actual date since Airwise is down), I believe that the date may well have been May 31 and not June 1, so will attempt to confirm that w/ Aravind.
georgiapeach:
Okay, we are back to JUNE 1 as being correct!
Aravind replied:
--- Quote ---The current info I posted was obtained from my boarding ticket which said Jun 1. So it is highly likely that it is correct. May be I heard wrong and it wasn’t 3 hours at all (although I am pretty sure it was).
I don’t have my itinerary with me anymore so I cannot confirm for sure. So it is possible that it was indeed the 31st of May! But again Air India could be showing some wrong data.
Btw, I think the camera timings are a bit off (they get the date correct though – I think). In fact, I am not even sure if the time is accurate for any timezone. So I wouldn’t give that too much weightage.
Shall let you know if I get anything more.
Best,
--Aravind.
--- End quote ---
Since I can't dispute the boarding ticket info, I double checked with Air India. The flight listed as AI 7408 is actually a code share w/ Singapore Airlines and upon checking there that flight was available on June 1 (went to 6 days a week on June 22 :lol:).
But I have no idea on getting them onward to Cochin if they go via Delhi first so will need apskip's help. Or maybe there is another way entirely?
But anyway, June 1 it is, which means that Macau must be an extended pitstop.
It also means that maybe Allen Wu could have possibly had time to fit in that family visit where he was seen with his family on 5/30.
georgiapeach:
Hmmm...apskip has also pointed out to me that a leg in Singapore is possible here, not just an extended pitstop in Macau.
If they dep early AM from Macau on the 31st then guess they could have time to arr Singapore, do tasks there, pitstop there night of May 31 and leave there June 1 for India.
So guess either is possible!
Thanks apskip!
oopsie--forgot they were on the HK to Singapore flight too!
apskip:
Referring back to my post on July 6, the last date on this Timeline specified SilkAir468 (Singapore Air codeshares it) from Singapore to Cochin. It had a later departure and arrival there, but the one currently showing is SIN COK 2020 2215. That could fit with the eyewitness information only if SilkAir did not open its ticket counter until about 1730 (which is logical since the first flight I can find in a late afternoon time frame was at 1900), then the remaining ARA3 teams could have gone to the Air India ticket counter and purchased a SilkAir or Singapore Air ticket there.
Now, with an expected May 31 morning departure from Macau (much more probable to me than another extended pitstop soon after one I have projected in Vietnam), the obvious solution to the time gap is an actual leg in Singapore. There is time between a noonish arrival and the following day evening departure to Cochin for such a leg. I have heard the objection that it would be difficult to have a leg without the ARA fans in Singapore hearing about it, but there are occasions when the producers of ARA3 achieve secrecy (although it appears that it is not often).
The fact is that there needs to be 11 to 13 legs in ARA3. We have only identified 10 through Cochin if Singapore is the 9th leg. If Singapore is not the 9th leg, then what could the two to four legs after Cochin be and why haven't we heard any tidbits about them?
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