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Coutzy:
To clear up any confusion (sorry about that) here is what I was told.


NOTE: THIS IS NOT PROVEN!

My mom's friend saw the racers in Thailand.

The team she contacted was the orange team.

They told her to "Trip the dwarves, they aren't nice people"

Now, given what we have seen previously on TAR "The Dwarves" may very easily be a nickname used by the racers (Similar to "The Freaks" for Kynt and Vyxsin.)

And sorry for any confusion that I caused.

apskip:
walkingpneumonia,
I appreciate the research you have done on the weather in the correct time frame. Your airline information needs a bit of updating. There are no direct flights form Irkutsk to Bangkok, nor are there any from Novosibirsk. Those cities, which I agree with you are probably the most logical of those on my list above, require complex flight combinations involving 2 or more airlines and flights from Novosibirsk and 3 or more airlines and flights from Irkutsk to reach Bangkok. The other Siberian cities would probably be the same, although I have not checked them. None of those places will have a direct flight to Bangkok. There just isn't the combination of income and demand to support that.

apskip:
peach, you said
--- Quote ---Teams were stuck on long local bus rides, had long tasks in each place, and were exhausted from that, and I certainly never ever missed any airport drama.
--- End quote ---
I find long bus rides (of the 10+ hour variety, certainly not local) to be the most boring part of Amazing Races that have them. Witness the ride from Bangkok to Chiang Mai in Episode 1 of ARA3.  Contrast that with long train rides. Because of the different interior layout of trains vs. buses, train rides allow teams to socialize and "mingle". Airplane flights are quite boring, but the drama at the travel agent or the airline reservations agent can make that the most compelling drama of the three modes of transportation, although frequently it too is boring.

walkingpneumonia:

--- Quote from: apskip on January 05, 2009, 09:24:06 PM ---walkingpneumonia,
I appreciate the research you have done on the weather in the correct time frame. Your airline information needs a bit of updating. There are no direct flights form Irkutsk to Bangkok, nor are there any from Novosibirsk. Those cities, which I agree with you are probably the most logical of those on my list above, require complex flight combinations involving 2 or more airlines and flights from Novosibirsk and 3 or more airlines and flights from Irkutsk to reach Bangkok. The other Siberian cities would probably be the same, although I have not checked them. None of those places will have a direct flight to Bangkok. There just isn't the combination of income and demand to support that.

--- End quote ---
According to this: http://www.s7.ru/en/flight_info/our_cities/index.html S7 flies from Irkutsk and Novosibirsk to Bangkok - has this flight been discontinued? Its only once a week (Mondays) from Irkutsk so its probably not practical for TAR purposes - but its 3 times a week from Novosibirsk.

apskip:
My airline information source requires specification of specific dates, not a range, so I did miss the information you have develoepd.  I stand corrected. Your information about the Siberian Airlines flight Novosibirsk to Bangkok is right, walkingpneumonia. There are 3 flights a week at very odd hours:

Thursdays and Sundays 0205 1020
Fridays 0330 1135

Now, the date of travel would have been Nov. 16, a Monday, or possibly Nov. 15, a Sunday, so we cannot rule it out. However, Sunday would have them pausing for almost 24 hours(although maybe there was a Bangkok leg slipped in there). The WRP coordination to make sure teams could make one of these flights would have been massive.

From Irkutsk to Bankgkok your information that there is one direct flights is correct. The only flight I find to Bangkok starts on a Monday (such as Nov. 16) at 505 and arrives Bangkok at 1105. That is likely to be OK.  We need more information about when things happened in Phuket to be sure.

With what I know I actually believe that AR14 did use one of those flights. They are too weird for it to be just random. See what I am about to write about Siberia.

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