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TAR13 Episode Timeline, Route, Schedule
Zack.:
apskip, many countries have only had one leg to them - Japan (both times), NZ in TAR5 (though I think we're going there in this race), India recently. It's not a hard and fast rule (though I would love two legs in Kazakhstan).
Other possibilities? more of the Baltic states, Bulgaria, Crete (probably flying from Athens), Romania, Albania.
apskip:
The possibilities are practically infinite. However, I do know that flights nonstop from Europe to PDX arriving in the morning are exactly two. The first is LH468 from FRA as indicated above(0945 1120). The flights from AMS do not arrive PDX until NW91 1030 1155. Either one of these can be the answer.
There are no non-stop flights from Toronto to Portland. However, there are good connections in the right time frames involving United Airlines:
UA1101 YYZ ORD 0625 0707 connect with UA257 ORD PDX 0801 1023
AC8497 YYZ DEN 0845 1020 connect with UA369 DEN PDX 1117 1255
UA1103 YYZ ORD 0800 0842 connect with UA1103 ORD PDX 1020 1236
The problem with Toronto is that coming in from FRA there are 6 nonstops, but all arrive in the afternoon. From AMS it's one afternoon and two evening nonstop arrivals for a total of 3.
From Vancouver, the fundamentals are marginal to start with. The distance from Europe to YVR is about the same as to PDX. Flights in to YVR include no nonstops from AMS; there are 2 single-connection in LHR flights. From FRA there is one nonstop into YVR, LH492 1310 1420 but it is not in the right time frame. That arrival is too late to get a full set of tasks done that day and its too early to transfer teams to flights that leave the next morning. I cannot rationalize Vancouver as a transit point or leg stopover for AR13.
gingerman28:
--- Quote from: puddin on May 13, 2008, 11:18:54 PM ---Like you apskip's, I would love to see the race go to Kazakhstan but wish we had some hard proof, still we can keep our fingers crossed. Its just beautiful from what I've seen :tup:
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That is where all the Russian space capsuls land. Maybe some kind of connection.
apskip:
Because there is a report that teams may have orginated in Moscow, I wanted to check it out. The flights cited in the my most recent post in the spoilers thread, LH 3169 DME FRA and LH468 FRA PDX are the only reasonable choice from Moscow due to minimal (15 hour) flying time in total and to appropriate arrival time (morning).
I also did the same type of analysis for Paris-CDG and for London-Heathrow and Madrid and none had any nonstop flights to PDX. I extended that analysis to several additional major European cities. None has any nonstop flights. That includes Prague, Helsinki, Stockholm and Lisbon. These cities can do a front end flight to connect into LH468 from FRA or NW91 from AMS even though they have no nonstop flights:
Copenhagen SA5639 0700 0840 CPH FRA
Warsaw KL1362 0645 0835 WAW AMS
Vienna UA8959 0635 0800 VIE FRA
Rome LH3853 0645 0845 FCO FRA or KL1596 0615 0845 FCO AMS
apskip:
--- Quote from: gingerman28 on May 14, 2008, 08:53:44 PM ---
--- Quote from: puddin on May 13, 2008, 11:18:54 PM ---Like you apskip's, I would love to see the race go to Kazakhstan but wish we had some hard proof, still we can keep our fingers crossed. Its just beautiful from what I've seen :tup:
--- End quote ---
That is where all the Russian space capsuls land. Maybe some kind of connection.
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GMAn, right you are. Its near Almaty which when I was growing up was called Alma Ata and there was a Russian space center there.
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