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apskip:
I have had a difficult time reconciling the arrival time in Novosibirsk. Thanks to the latest newsletter by Edward Hasbrouck, I think I now have it straight. The problem is that I could not find a 2226 departure train in the TransSiberian Railway schedule. With airlines schedules and most train schedules, local time is used. However, the TransSiberian Railway stays on Moscow time. So 2026 is really 1826 Moscow time, when there is a train departure. It arrives Novosibirsk at 0647 Moscow time, which is 947am local time. That is a 12 hour 21 minute run, among the fastest trains on that route.

To make a rough estimate of what that means for episode 5 timing in Novosibirsk:

Arrive Novosibirsk 0947
Go across town to clue with DETOUR, taking maybe 15 minutes
Russian Brides would require a 20 minute self-drive, then a 10 minute(if done correctly) drive to the church, then a 20 minute self-drive back to the Bioblioteka or
Russian Snowplow would require a 10 minute delf-drive, then maybe 20 minutes for both teammates to complete, then 20 minutes self-drive back to the Biblioteka
To be ready for the run took 10 minutes and to do it no more than 10 minutes
To find Phil inside the State Academy, 5 minutes
I estimate total time of 70 minutes using either DETOUR (unless a team went to the wrong church or had navigational difficulties)

Slowhatch:
Maybe, despite what the producers say (what blizzard?), it wasn't a Trans-Sib train. I found a Russian Rail schedule (train 085, I used a Wednesday)  that matches the times you posted. Also, according to this site, you have to book TS in advance, but RussianRail tickets can be purchased at any rail counter.

apskip:
Slowhatch, you may be right. The schedule I am using says train #"055 bl" and train name Enisey. That does not tell us much.

apskip:
The flight information indicated that after the 0700 flight OVB to SVO, there was "a flight to Delhi". There were 2 ways to do this. One is the nonstop flight SVO DEL SU533  1620 0050 that Neobie proposed. What I have shown for Nov. 12 but not 11 is this combination through Almaty:
KC872 SVO ALA 0920 1645
KC907 ALA DEL 1805 2115
This one gets teams to Delhi about 3.5 hours earlier so it is what I would do in the same situation.

I found the mandate that teams must fly through Moscow a bit unusual, as that is typically done for first episodes only.



 

Neobie:
According to the Insider videos (thanks TARAsiaFan!), Tammy/Victor and Mel/Mike worked together transferring from one Moscow airport to another. One was in the far south (Domodedovo; there are no flights to Vnukovo), and one was in the north (Sheremetyevo). Victor says they had 5 hours to make the transfer.

This fits nicely with the following schedule, which involves three separate flights from Novosibirsk to Moscow:

Jaime/Cara, Margie/Luke, who are "consoling" Tammy/Victor at the Novosibirsk airport
SU810 to Sheremetyevo Intl Airport, Moscow: 0700-0815

Tammy/Victor, Mel/Mike
S7178 to Domodedovo Intl Airport, Moscow: 1000-1120 (5h connection time, which confirms the Delhi direct flight)
Metro to Sheremetyevo Intl Airport

Mark/Michael, Jennifer/LaKisha, Jodi/Christie
SU1440 to Sheremetyevo Intl Airport, Moscow: 1055-1210 (this is the next and only remaining flight that can make the Delhi direct)

Everybody
SU533 to Delhi Intl Airport, India: 1620-0050

Tammy/Victor and Mel/Mike were trying to avoid the Domestic<>International transfer in Sheremetyevo! Was this a wise decision?


Hmm, teams were seen on a morning 15th flight from Bangkok to Phuket, no? If teams arrived in Jaipur on the 13th and checked out early the next morning, wouldn't they have too much time to be stuck in Bangkok? I mean, examples could be:

6E207 to Kolkata: 0750-1010, 9W66 to Bangkok: 1145-1605, TG223 to Phuket: 1820-1940 OR
IC612 to Mumbai: 0735-0910, SQ7879 to Bangkok: 1120-1705, TG227 to Phuket: 1915-2035 OR
Heck, any of Apskip's flights would deny the Bangkok sighting.

Do we have a mandatory "travel to Phuket via Delhi", or do we have a slightly-extended Pit Stop again?

Here's one way Phil could escape after eliminating Jodi/Christie on the 13th:
IC895 to Delhi: 1815-1855
TG316 to Bangkok: 0005-0535
TG203 to Phuket: 0730-0850, giving him a day over the racers

Phil doesn't need a 36-hour Pit Stop to get ahead, unlike in the previous leg. Between Jaipur and Novosibirsk, it's still likely Russia was the extended Pit Stop. Now we just need to look for direct evidence!

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