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The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation

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apskip:
As I neared completion of the work below, the prior post from Peach indicates that the whole notion of arrival on May 31 is wrong. That makes the information below valuable only for reference purposes as it is moot for ARA3.

Below is the list of places you can fly from Singapore to on Saturday May 31 and return on Sunday June 1 prior to the sighting in Singapore airport that afternoon. I developed it by looking at the main airlines serving Singapore and trying to figure out which ones have flights of under 2 hours from Singapore (and presumably back to Singapore) for those days of the week. I analyzed the route map of Singapore Airlines to come up with Kuala Lumpur and Penang:

SIN KUL 3 one hour flights departing 0710 to 0950
KUL SIN many flights 0805 to 1200

SIN PEN SQ182 0805 or SQ5652 1105 1230
PEN SIN SQ191 1025 1150 or SQ5653 1315 1435

Silk Air adds Phnom Penh, Phuket, Langkawi, and Medan:

SIN PNH MI602 0800 0855
PNH SIN MI841 0950 1250

SIN HKT MI642 0805 0955 or  SIN HKT MI754 1115 1305
HKT SIN MI753 1455 1740

SIN LGK MI362 0840 1005
LGK SIN MI9337 1530 1700

SIN MES MI292 0730 0755
MES SIN MI233 0840 1105

When you add in Malysian Airlines you get a lot less than expected. Malaysian's route system centers on its hub in Kuala Lumpur, so going anywhere else except Penang cannot be done in under 2 hours. Malaysian Air does have several morning flights to add to the Singapore Penang route and about 4 each way between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

I also went to Jet Airways but did not come up with much as their international routes are primarily designed to bring people to India. I know there are many more international airlines that fly to Singapore, but my criteria makes it impossible for places not in Malaysia or Indonesia to qualify (except for southern Thailand and southern Cambodian places like Phuket and Phnom Penh).

So, what does all this mean? The places above represent the resonable universe of cities that ARA3 could have flown to from Singapore on May 31 and arrived back from to Sinapore Changi Airport in time June 1 for an afternoon sighting before ticketing for Cochin.

apskip:
Peach,

The only Cathay Pacific flights departing HKG for SIN on Sunday mornings are CX717 0850 1230 and CX739 1120 1505. There are several Singapore Airlines flights.

georgiapeach:
thanks apskip!

The flight that Trish and Geoff  were on was  Cathay Pacific # CX739 which departed HK approx 11:20 AM on June 1, according to Aravind.

What flights the trailing teams would have to take is what we could use now.

apskip:
Those flight possiblities for th afternoon departures that arrive before 800pm are:

CX711 415pm
CX735 215pm
SQ863 130pm

All take about 3 hours 40 minutes.

georgiapeach:
Perfect, thanks! :waves:

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