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TAR15 EP12: "Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound (Las Vegas)"
Boingo:
:lol: This may be the entrance used at the Casa de Shenandoah. ...tree lined path...going somewhere... ;D
another view ...note "pink" pavement ... whatever that means ???
puddin:
Boingo is back :jumpy: :jumpy: :yess:
Boingo:
:lol: if they came in the east gate, then they went this-a-way.... ;D
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--- Quote from: puddin on December 06, 2009, 08:11:43 PM ---For the flight peeps
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Several of these flight combinations from London to Las Vegas utilize that great airport Victoria train station (ZEP).
The huge questions are:
1. Why were all teams routed to London when there were alternate routes from Prague that would have landed them much earlier?
2. One example of that is Chateau's PRG MAD MEX LAS route, which would have arrived at 910am.
My guess is that World Race Productions wanted a late enough flight from Prague to assure that all teams could have a decent rest (from the 10 hour pit stop, which could have been more if the 3rd team arriving at the Prague II pit stop had done so earlier) and still get to the London flight on time. Once in London, they could have used AA99 connecting in Chicago with UA551 (Neobie's flight prediction, which Chateau later adopted too) arriving 28 minutes late while VS43 actually arrived 18 minutes early, which made it 15 minutes earlier than UA551. However, there would have been no way to predict that. One reason is identified in the list of flight possiblities. There was only one Y seat available for UA551 vs. 2 Y seats for VS43. Since we don't know when the list was printed and how the seats were reserved (I bet it was WRP prebooking the entire itinerary for 3 teams x 4 = 12 people months in advance) it is impossible to know what that exact situation was.
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--- Quote from: DrRox on December 07, 2009, 09:13:37 AM ---
--- Quote from: puddin on December 06, 2009, 08:11:43 PM ---For the flight peeps
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Trying to figure out the final flights. Looks to me that they flew from Prague to Heathrow on British Airways arriving around 6:30 pm on Aug 6th. Then transfer to Gatwick for flight to Las Vegas on Virgin Atlantic at approx 11 am on Aug 7. That means a rather long layover in London of about 18 hours. Arrival in Las Vegas was about 15 minutes early on Aug 7th.
Maybe someone asked them at TARcon just what they did. Thanks for the close-up, Puddin!!!
On Fancast today, M/C said the layover in London was about 12 hours and they spent it eating, sleeping and hanging out with the other teams.
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BA857 arrived at Heathrow airport at 1926 (24 minutes early) on August 6. Teams flew from Gatwick airport on VS43 actually leaving on schedule at 1125 on August 6. The only way to account for a 12 hour layover is Heathrow is roughly 1 hour from downtown London by subway and Gatwick is on a major train line 27 miles south of London. If teams stayed in a Gatwick airport hotel and the 2 hours transportation(including subway and train schedules not exactly matching the minimum possible times) and 1.5 hours are taken off for clearing security and boarding, you would have close to a 12 hour layover.
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