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TAR 16 Timeline Thread
Neobie:
I believe these are our flights from the Seychelles to Penang. Not too many alternatives between the two!
Phil
EK 708 to Dubai: 12 0145-0615
EK 342 to Kuala Lumpur: 1030-2125 (sighting)
MH 1194 to Penang: 2320-13 0010
Teams
EK 706 to Dubai: 13 0815-1245
MH 157 to Kuala Lumpur: 1855-14 0605
MH 1138 to Penang: 0915-1015 (sighting)
There are earlier Kuala Lumpur-Penang flights, but I guess the team sighted didn't make it.
ZBC Company:
--- Quote from: Neobie on January 21, 2010, 02:20:10 PM ---Agreed. Eight countries means no Paraguay. It was a well-researched hoax though. Too bad they didn't follow through.
We can also now fill in Phil's flight from the Seychelles to Dubai on 12 Dec:
EK 708 to Dubai: 0145-0615
EK 342 to Kuala Lumpur: 1030-2125
MH 1194 to Penang: 2320-0010 (13 Dec)
With 13 Dec being his stand-up day, and the 14 being the race day.
This also means that the Seychelles leg took place on the 11th. If it had ended on the 10th Phil would have been able to get to Penang one day earlier using:
HM 61 to Johannesburg: 0810-1125
SQ 479 to Singapore: 1330-0600 (12 Dec)
MI 352 to Penang: 0805-0930
Working backwards, teams from Paris on 10 Dec would have taken:
HM 7 to Mahe: 1930-0805 (11 Dec)
--- End quote ---
i could how say zip zip around the world this is a zip zip around the world
Neobie:
--- Quote ---Totes ran into the Amazing Race today on the way to Bariloche, gave a team my map, now i don't know where the [bleep] i am.
--- End quote ---
The blog from Jeber, discovered by ob-la-di-ob-la-da, was posted on the evening of 2 Dec. We know that the Puerto Varas Pit Stop was on 1 Dec, so this must be the teams on their third leg. It looks like Phil and the teams are going to be racing this one out, with no extra day for Phil to film his stand-ups. Hence we have...
Leg
Phil
Teams
Comments
Valparaiso
29 Nov
29 Nov
First leg
Puerto Montt
30 Nov
1 Dec
Bariloche
2 Dec
2 Dec
Short leg
The Argentinean article tells us that Germany is next, and Phil can easily make this the next day:
AR1681 to Buenos Aires: 1110-1313, then AF 417 to Paris: 1800-1100, then any flight to whichever city in Germany.
No matter how late he arrives, he would have 5 Dec to himself before teams arrive (at the latest) on the 6th.
Leg
Phil
Teams
Comments
Germany
5 Dec
6 Dec
Latest Case Scenario
Now let's work backwards from the sighting of Phil on the flight from Dubai to Kuala Lumpur, departing Dubai at 10.30am on 12 Dec. This means that Phil left that morning from the Seychelles on EK 708, departing Mahe at 1.45am and arriving at 6.15am. The Seychelles leg would have ended on the 11th. (If it had ended on the 10th, Phil could get to Penang via Johannesburg and Singapore on the 11th.)
For long-distance legs, Phil usually gets an extra day to film his stand-ups. This means he would have arrived on the 10th, departing Paris (any other airport would work within the same time frame) on the evening of the 9th:
QR 20 to Doha: 1505-2325, then QR 702 to Mahe: 0045-0640
Leg
Phil
Teams
Comments
France
8 Dec
9 Dec
Seychelles
10 Dec
11 Dec
Penang
13 Dec
14 Dec
You guys see the space that suggests an extra leg between arriving in Germany and leaving France? (The extra leg appearing in the Seychelles could work as well.)
georgiapeach:
--- Quote from: Neobie on January 22, 2010, 02:28:08 PM ---
The Argentinean article tells us that Germany is next, and Phil can easily make this the next day:
AR1681 to Buenos Aires: 1110-1313, then AF 417 to Paris: 1800-1100, then any flight to whichever city in Germany.
No matter how late he arrives, he would have 5 Dec to himself before teams arrive (at the latest) on the 6th.
--- End quote ---
Thanks Neobie!! I love seeing it all spelled out...
Why do you call Bariloche a short leg though? Does it HAVE to be?
If the teams have to get all the way to that estancia on those roads, I am starting to wonder if maybe we could have two legs in Argentina?? Is there anything that says for sure they couldn't?? ???
That would take up that extra day as well. But why the 6th as latest case scenario for Germany? Couldn't the extra time be used up in Argentina instead of Europe?
Just wondering... :colors
apskip:
I have been a proponent of 2 legs in Argentina for a while. The second one does not have to be in Buenos Aires.
My comments on using Sao Paulo (GRU) rather than Buenos Aires (EZE) as the transatlantic crossing apply. There would be a narrow time window when it would be appropriate to not go from EZE to GRU for the puddle jump, but most of any 24 hour period would be optimal to go from GRU (even with the 2 hour flight from EZE to GRU factored in).
It seems quite likely that the German city of arrival will be Hamburg. If so, flights from South America will not be connecting in Paris to get there. The preferred alternatives are Munich, Milan-Malpensa and Frankfurt, all of which have prompt flights to Hamburg after arrival.
A similar line of reasoning applies for Paris to Mahe, the main international airport in the Seychelles. I recommend the nonstop flight for CDG arrival after 10am (the drop dead time for the flight to Doha Neobie likes) until 6pm. Earlier or later than that, the connection in Doha is preferred.
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