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Neobie:
It was a evil ploy by the producers to get everyone snagged on the hours of operation.

Releasing Margie and Luke at 9.36am is perfectly timed for them to miss TG668 leaving at 9.50am, arriving in Guangzhou at 1.30pm. In a shorter Pit Stop and with nothing to lose, teams would then try for CA4382 (2.20pm-3.20pm) to Guilin. It's a tight connection that teams would probably miss, but if they made it they'd make Phil very unhappy.

Banning the Macau and Hong Kong flights on top of the Pit Stop shift makes it impossible for teams to arrive before 9.30pm, giving Phil an entire day to slack around in Guilin. (Yes - I'm a small government kind of person!)

I've got a time of 6.20pm-10.00pm for Mark/Michael's CZ364 from Bangkok to Guangzhou (teeny bit earlier than Apskip's timing), which would allow them to try for CZ3234 (11.05pm-11.55pm) onward to Guilin. That's where we get our baggage claim sighting at around 11pm, when they're exiting International and headed for Domestic. They apparently missed it - and I've got an earliest flight of ZH9637 (7.40am-8.45am) the next day. The leg might have turned out very different if they caught it!

Guess we'd have to plan for mandatory connection cities in the future, huh?

puddin:
So you agree the Hours of op is where we would have seen......?

--- Quote ---The Folded Brocade Mountains
aka Diecai Shan, aka Di-Tsai Mountain, aka Peak of the Luminous Moon, aka Bright Moon Peak, aka Mingyue Feng
--- End quote ---

Looking forward to the insider clips .....

DrRox:
Ms Puddin, I just think it was an isolated "holding pen," similiar to the church in Locarno, where TPTB took all the teams to pass the night. I will have to go back and look at my DVR, it is seemed to me that the first 4 teams all landed in Guilin in the dark, but it was light when they walked out of the airport to get taxis.

puddin:
Drums of life ............
http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,18620.msg390259.html#msg390259

Neobie:

--- Quote from: DrRox on April 24, 2009, 03:14:09 AM ---The evening flights from Guilin to Beijing on Nov 18th were at:

CZ 3287   17:10-19:50  (5:10 pm-7:50 pm)
CA 1226   21:05-00:05 (9:05 pm-12:05 am)

Morning of Nov 19th flights were:
CZ 3281   9:00-11:25
CA 1312   11:45-14:35 (11:45 am-2:35 pm)

Since the activities appear to be all at night, that would (to me) preclude the morning flights on Nov 19th. So I think that TPTB will give us a shortened pit stop this episode, in order for the 4 teams to make the last flight to Beijing and another bunching point.
--- End quote ---

Maybe not a shorter than 12h Pit Stop, but an extended one, with teams racing Beijing I on the evening of the 19th? Gives Phil the entire day to film his exposition, and there's still enough time after that for us to complete the race.

With Mark/Michael arriving in Guilin at 8.45am and checking in half an hour behind Jaime/Cara, taking even the most generous estimates we would require the teams to have only an 8h break to be able to make the 9.05pm flight to Beijing (with 0.5h between the airport and the city, 2h for the Guilin tasks, and 0.5h check-in requirement).

So far only Stechelberg and Phuket were the standard 12h, and Bran and Novosibirsk 36's (both so Phil can get ahead).
Salzburg was ~20h for an unknown reason.
Krasnoyarsk was ~24h to bunch teams on the night train.
Jaipur was ~24h to let Phil fly one day ahead.
Phuket Bangkok was ~22h, a very calculated timing to bunch teams at the Folded Brocade Mtns. (Thanks DrRox.)

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