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The Amazing Race 14 Speculation on Spoilers
patlini:
they could do England on Guy Fawkes night - Nov 5th
Chateau d If:
--- Quote from: Neobie on November 03, 2008, 06:25:49 AM ---The first spoiler of a season is always what gets me jumpy and breathless! You guys are great!
Hmm, a 7/4 split for the first flight?
The Portland > Frankfurt plane is simply the reverse of TAR 13's final flight, isn't it? That's LH469, departing at 1.35pm to 9.05am the next day, a flight duration of 10h 30min. Portland, Maine doesn't have a direct flight to Frankfurt - and it'd take a much shorter time too if it did!
Only Lufthansa and Swiss Air for the Frankfurt > Zurich leg, and it looks like they're running codeshare. Here're the possible options:
LH5052/LX1071, 1015-1120
LH3726/LX3605, 1200-1255
LH3728/LX3607, 1305-1400
And... There're plenty of trains (departure times differ by less than an hour) from Zurich Airport to Locarno, taking a little over 3 hours with a couple of connections. They'd be able to make it there the same day, albeit in the afternoon. First one gets them in at 1606, provided they can hop on by 1147.
Frankfurt is the airport serving the most destinations worldwide. Not much hope of finding where they start, eh? But if we assume it's straight from the US to Frankfurt, we have the following 21 cities as candidates, with all flights getting in before noon:
The good news? Looks like the LA flight gets in too late for the racers to be lounging around before Matty gets to Frankfurt!
Lufthansa: Atlanta (1810-0900), Boston (1635-0525), Chicago (1433-0545, 1545-0710, 1848-1015), Dallas (1620-0905), Denver (1715-1100), Detroit (1810-0755), Houston (1630-0905), Los Angeles (1435-1025), Miami (1605-0650), New York (1550-0525, 2145-1110), Newark (1810-0750), Orlando (2030-1125), Philadelphia (1635-0615, 1805-0805), Portland (1335-0905), San Francisco (1348-0945, 1430-1020), Seattle (1455-1005), Washington DC (1722-0710, 1750-0730, 1914-0915, 2155-1140)
*deep breath*
United: Chicago (1433-0545, 1545-0710, 1848-1015), San Francisco (1348-0945, 1430-1020), Washington DC (1722-0710, 1750-0730, 1914-0915, 2155-1140)
American: Chicago (1930-1105), Dallas (1445-0705)
Delta: Atlanta (1635-0740), Cincinnati (1925-0955), New York (1910-0930)
Northwest: Detroit (1710-0720)
Continental: Newark (1915-0915)
US Airways: Charlotte (2015-1050), Philadelphia (1635-0615)
Singapore: New York (2100-1050)
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It looks to me like the Teams would have arrived on either
1) UA 945 from ORD Chicago, arriving at 8:10 am
2) SQ 26 from JFK New York, arriving at 8:20 am
I'm looking at these early arrival times because Matty's flight from Portland was shown to have arrived quite early at 8:16 am (versus its 9:05 am scheduled arrival time)
Opps! :groan: I was looking at Frankfurt Departures :groan:
I'll re-post the proper analysis in the 'flights' thread.
Mrs Shrek:
--- Quote from: Neobie on November 03, 2008, 06:25:49 AM ---The Portland > Frankfurt plane is simply the reverse of TAR 13's final flight, isn't it? That's LH469, departing at 1.35pm to 9.05am the next day, a flight duration of 10h 30min. Portland, Maine doesn't have a direct flight to Frankfurt - and it'd take a much shorter time too if it did!
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Are there no other possible non stop flights with other airlines? The reason I ask is that it doesn't seem to fit with the evidence in the blog: The sister said "Matty left last night. We all went to the airport to see him off."
It would be a real stretch to describe a 1:35pm departure as 'night', especially as he would probably have had to say goodbye to them before heading thru customs, probably 1 hour before departure at least, so I would have expected her to use the words 'lunchtime', or similar. And from the photo of the family, the watch really does look like 1:50pm.
Also Matty mentions in his own blog that he was only "able to sleep for the first two hours of the flight". Even seasoned travellers would find it hard to dose off at midday in their own timezone at the beginning of their first flight.
The only reason it is impt either way is because it changes the window of time for when the racers would have been seen at Frankfurt. :duno:
georgiapeach:
Wait a second guys...
Are we totally confident in thinking that Frankfurt is the arrival from US city?
Since we aren't 100% sure of the departure date, don't we have to at least consider that it could be a second leg? :duno:
I agree that it probably isn't, but just want to throw this out there.
We saw Phil on TES on 10/29...so we have that tiny window of 10/30 onwards...
If they went somewhere like London first, they could be still be seen in Frankfurt on 11/1...
Just a thought.
Oh and it is definitely Portland, Oregon.....no doubts.
georgiapeach:
all good ideas topaz, but way premature....
Cape Town is in no way confirmed yet...
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