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georgiapeach:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Neobie:
Latest news: Brad and Victoria can still save themselves if they move fast, but not too fast!

KL553/RO102 leaves Amsterdam at 9.00pm and arrives in Bucharest at 6.15am, connecting through Cairo. (Brad/Victoria missed the flight leaving at 8.20pm.) That's five hours behind the (previously) trailing teams. If hours of operation and train schedules work to their favour, they may still be able to climb out of that ditch.

MA669/MA856 through Budapest is an even faster flight combination, leaving at 8.30pm and scheduled to arrive at 1.25am, just one hour after our main pack. But God is in the works - the Amsterdam-Budapest gets delayed too, leaving teams with an impossible 11min to connect! The next Budapest-Bucharest flight is MA850 (0740-1005).

puddin:

--- Quote from: Neobie on February 23, 2009, 09:17:38 PM ---Latest news: Brad and Victoria can still save themselves if they move fast, but not too fast!

KL553 leaves Amsterdam for Cairo at 9.00pm, arriving at 2.23am. (They missed the flight leaving at 8.20pm.) RO102 leaves Cairo for Bucharest at 3.25am, arriving in Bucharest at 6.15am, five hours behind the (previously) trailing teams. If hours of operation and train timetables work to their favour, they may be able to climb out of that ditch.

There is an even faster flight combination scheduled to arrive at 1.25am, just one hour after our main pack. Brad and Victoria will have to race to get on MA669 to Budapest (2030-2230), then connect to MA856 to Bucharest (2310-0125). But... the Amsterdam-Budapest flight gets delayed too! It landed at 10.59pm, leaving them 11min to connect. They'd be missing their flight again. °_° The next Budapest-Bucharest flight is MA850 (0740-1005).

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I have confidence that they can fight their way back! They are there to win! Thanks Neobie .. now i need a drink :wine: .. and passes a few on .. Cheers!

apskip:

--- Quote from: Neobie on February 14, 2009, 01:35:32 PM ---
--- Quote from: walkingpneumonia on February 13, 2009, 02:42:49 PM ---Here's another option for getting to Bellinzona if you land in Malpensa. The MalpensaExpress is a train that runs from the airport to Saronno and the central train station in Milan.

Doesn't explain Chiasso unless you mess up the transfer between the Como stations...
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That's it, Walkingpneumonia! That's how Preston/Jennifer miss their train! Working backwards from when they're stuck in Chiasso gives us a schedule a little later than the one you posted on the Ep 1 thread...

The train pulling into Chiasso Platform 7 at 4.52pm can only be EC172. Preston/Jennifer get on this train.

The quickest way to get between Malpensa Airport and Locarno, from 1.24pm to 2.23pm:
Malpensa Express to Saronno, 1353 to 1413 or 1423 to 1443
R149 to Como Camerlata, 1504 to 1532
Change to Albate-Camerlata or Como S Giovanni
S10 to Giubiasco, 1550 (AC) / 1555 (CSG) to 1656 OR
S20 to Locarno, 1704 to 1727

There's an alternative route on the 1.53pm Malpensa Express through the city getting into Locarno at 1713. However, it involves the tricky transfer between Milano Cadorna and Milano Centrale stations, which doesn't pop up on electronic searches.

Preston/Jennifer mess up the connection and end up:
Arrive in Albate-Camerlata after 1550 or Como S Giovanni after 1555
R10860 to Chiasso, 1632 (AC) / 1638 (CSG) to 1643
EC172 to Bellinzona, 1700 to 1750 (train in previews)
IR2177 to Locarno, 1754 to 1813

The couple loses 46 minutes to this mistake.
It is likely that they "check-in" at the Locarno semi-Pit Stop last.

All this means that teams are ready to leave Malpensa Airport from between 1.24pm to 2.23pm. Any earlier and there would be a better route, any later and Preston/Jennifer won't be in Chiasso at 4.52pm. That suggests the Milan 4's flight was:
TN22 or AF75 from Los Angeles to Paris: 1145-0845 or 1500-1030, then
AZ307/AF9806 from Paris to Milan Malpensa: 1125-1305

So it looks like teams have the choice of arriving in Zurich at 12.55pm or Milan at 1.05pm. Malpensa is 60km (37 miles) from Locarno, Zurich 146km (91 miles). Given it took us bloody forever to figure out the best routes to Locarno, what would you do?

:spoiler:
Correct answer: Zurich will get you into Locarno at 4.57pm if you don't mess anything up. Milan gets you in at 5.27pm. However, if it's a later connection arriving in Zurich at 2pm, you'd arrive in Locarno at 5.57pm. Preston/Jennifer's mistake will put them at the back of the pack, arriving in Locarno at 6.13pm.

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Neobie, my independent work on flights led me to the same conclusion that you arrived at. The Frankfurt-connecting flight arrived at Zurich at 1255pm and the Paris-connecting flight arrived in MIlan-Malpensa at 155pm.

You are correct on the best schedule from Zurich being arrival in Locarno at 457pm. However, my work shows that you can get to Locarno from Milano-Centrale (which I believe they reach by airport bus and not by train, but it doesn't matter). Here is the schedule:

Milan dep.1510 arr.Lugano 1609 dep.1612 arr.Bellinzona 1634 dep.1654 arr.Locarno 1713

If I had time to research in on the Internet in LAX, I would have picked the flight to Frankfurt/Zurich with the longer train ride because of the gaps in the schedule from Milan. However, no team had time to do that before selecting their flight. Their thinking in episode 1 obviously involved guesswork and second-guessing.

TARAsia Fan:
Those are definitely tight connections. I'm not sure if they continue. But then again, if Amanda & Kris lose their passports ..... There's a lot of if's in this episode!

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