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TAR13 Episode Timeline, Route, Schedule
Chateau d If:
Phil's Phlight: (in order to catch G3 1600 to Salvador)
Take American Airlines # 1520 leaving LAX at 12:00 noon and arriving in Miami at 7:50 pm.
Then take American Airlines # 905 leaving Miami at 11:10 pm and arriving in Rio at 8:15 am.
Neobie:
Thanks Chateau! So Phil scheduled for himself a 135min connection (8.15am to 10.30am). A non-break journey for contestants from Chicago to Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro to Salvador would give them 155min for international connection in Sao Paulo and 50min in Rio (domestic).
So I guess it's safe enough (using Phil's times as a gauge) for the flight to happen on the 23rd?
Apskip's right - the connection through Rio is at best the fourth quickest flight that reaches Salvador, and half the teams are diverted there? Looks a bit strange for contestants to find that themselves... Did production force them onto it through charter flights?
(Wait, weren't the teams spotted on the morning of the 24th at the elevator? Doesn't that kind of make the whole argument of 23rd versus 24th moot?)
A compiled version of everyone's posts for easy reference; the flights we're looking at - if the 23rd holds true - are:
Contestants' flight from Los Angeles to Sao Paulo
UA 843 from Los Angeles to Chicago, 2.05pm to 8.05pm
UA 843 from Chicago to Salvador, 9.32pm to 10.05am
Contestants' Rio flight from Sao Paulo to Salvador
LA 750 from Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, 12.40pm to 1.45pm
G3 1830 from Rio de Janeiro to Salvador, 2.35pm to 4.30pm
Contestants' flights from Sao Paulo to Salvador
leaving later than our Rio connection and arriving earlier
G3 1978, 12.50pm to 3.05pm
JJ 3172 / AF 6341 / LA 5962 / UA 9835, 1.30pm to 3.50pm
G3 1884, 1.50pm to 4.05pm
Phil's flights from Los Angeles to Salvador
AA 1520 from Los Angeles to Miami, 12.00pm to 7.50pm
AA 905 from Miami to Rio de Janeiro, 11.10pm to 8.15am
G3 1600 from Rio de Janeiro to Salvador, 10.30am to 12.30pm
apskip:
Let me note a few things:
1. Rio is northeast of Sao Paulo and so Salvador is northeast of Rio.
2. It makes sense for Phil to take a shorter route through Rio. It has much longer connect times and makes it less likely he will miss a connection or be delayed.
3. I haven't seen anything to nail down any AR13 teams going through Rio. It makes little sense when there are ample nonstop flights from Sao Paulo to Salvador. It is easy for observers to confuse the entourage Phil travels with with the racers themselves.
puddin:
--- Quote from: apskip on July 01, 2008, 08:56:38 AM ---Let me note a few things:
1. Rio is northeast of Sao Paulo and so Salvador is northeast of Rio.
2. It makes sense for Phil to take a shorter route through Rio. It has much longer connect times and makes it less likely he will miss a connection or be delayed.
3. I haven't seen anything to nail down any AR13 teams going through Rio. It makes little sense when there are ample nonstop flights from Sao Paulo to Salvador. It is easy for observers to confuse the entourage Phil travels with with the racers themselves.
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:duno: Still unsure if were looking at 2 sets of girl/girl team but thats for another topic.
Anyway......
LAX~two blondes wearing hot pink sweatsuits
ORD~Blondes in Pink
Bangkok, Thailand~2 girls, both from Texas, one blond, one brunette
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on May 16, 2008, 11:17:59 AM ---From newman 44 at this forum :
My friends have been living in Brazil for the last few months and this is an excerpt from her blog posted on April 26th:
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For those of you who are unfamiliar with the reality TV show, The Amazing Race, it is a competition where people travel all over the world in a hectic rat race to come in first and win the big prize. I..m actually not all that familiar with the show myself but I..m pretty sure they were on my airplane.
This situation happened completely by chance. From Cordoba, we were to have a stop over in Porto Alegre another stop in Sao Paulo and then arrive in Salvador in the afternoon. Because of fog, the airport in Porto Alegre was closed, so we had to detour to Rio and from there, fly to Salvador, which was actually much more efficient and convenient.
At the airport in Rio, we noticed several film crews and people in teams of two, often wearing matching outfits. These two girls from Texas (according to their t-shirts anyway) were wearing matching black biker shorts, bright pink tank tops and a ton of make-up. I think the t-shirt was pretty accurate. Anyway, we noticed them being interviewed by the film crews, acting out dramatic situations and so-on. When it came time to board we talked to some of them and lent one of them our brazil book, although they didn..t give us many details about what they were doing. There was a delay in taking off and one team asked if they could move closer to the front. As soon as they did, all the other contestants tried to do the same. It was kind of annoying becuase I think it delayed our take-off even more. Anyway, at that point, we were pretty confident that if it wasn..t The Amazing Race, it was an amazing race of some sort.
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Chateau d If:
--- Quote ---I haven't seen anything to nail down any AR13 teams going through Rio.
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This where we say "Read the thread".
On Phil's flight G3 1600 Rio to Salvador, we don't really know that it is on April 23rd. I looked at the whiteboard shot and the date is rubbed out or missing. Just a little bit of a "4" shows up for April. As in: nn/4 Where we can't see any "nn".
Many production folk listed out on the right side of the board are on this flight. Why can't it be 24/4 ? BVM etc are on the left side of the board and the date is clear: 23/4.
I'm still believing that Teams have to fetch something in Sao Paulo. When they went through LAX would they be asking for tickets to Sao Paulo but really knowing that they were going to Salvador and just not feeling like telling the ticket agents that they want to get to Salvador? Why wouldn't they tell the agents what their destination was? Did they think that the agents could not book the flights for the final leg to Salvador? It seems hard to swallow. Maybe it's just me? :duno:
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