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AR17 Flight Information
apskip:
I want to go back to leg 4 and the connection in Frankfurt and how that apparently allowed some teams to get ahead at least 2 hours and others to fall behind. The official connect times (quite absurd according to my experience for international to international) for FRA are:
Domestic to Domestic - 45 minutes
Domestic to International - 45 minutes
International to Domestic - 45 minutes
International to International - 45 minutes
That means that all travel agents, particularly Lufthansa ticketing agents in the Accra airport, would have been allowed to book the connection between LH567 (scheduled arrival 630am June 1) and SK3000 (scheduled departure 0735) of 65 minutes. that is 20 minutes more than the minimum. Now, I personally would never book a flight through Frankfurt assuming a 65 minute connect time due to my personal experience there of slow connection, but if it is a legal connection then the Amazing Race teams certainly should have tried to, and been allowed to.
georgiapeach:
I would be afraid to try that as well in Frankfurt!! Thanks!
maf:
I always assumed that at least Nat & Kat (and who else booked via the net) would have kept their original tickets (with the slow connection in Frankfurt) and then just bought extra tickets for the fast connection. That way they would have been safe.
I would also assume that Gary & Mallory and Kevin & Michael did not have double tickets since they seemed to have a Lufthansa agent change their tickets.
But I do not know if the race rules allows that kind of behavior. But I remember team Guido stating that in Season 11 they were allowed to hold tickets on multiple connections.
redskevin88:
--- Quote from: maf on October 27, 2010, 11:10:34 PM ---I always assumed that at least Nat & Kat (and who else booked via the net) would have kept their original tickets (with the slow connection in Frankfurt) and then just bought extra tickets for the fast connection. That way they would have been safe.
I would also assume that Gary & Mallory and Kevin & Michael did not have double tickets since they seemed to have a Lufthansa agent change their tickets.
But I do not know if the race rules allows that kind of behavior. But I remember team Guido stating that in Season 11 they were allowed to hold tickets on multiple connections.
--- End quote ---
Here is the exact quote from Reality TV World
--- Quote ---Somewhere around The Amazing Race 4 or 5, they changed the rules where you could buy tickets -- keep buying fully-refundable tickets -- and you could buy as many tickets as you wanted going from one place to another. So as a result, say when we were in Johannasburg, you're just buying and buying and buying and buying tickets trying to get to Dar Es Salaam... we spent 28 hours in the Johannasburg airport before we finally got out. Believe it or not, I had more than $50,000 worth of airplane tickets in my backpack. We had maxed out two people's Visa cards just buying tickets trying to get out of there.
--- End quote ---
apskip:
I had in post #1 above in this thread the following:
leg 5 KRN ARN
Note: I expect this to be on 6/3, not one day later
6/3 SK1307 1435
leg 6 6/3 local transportation around greater Stockholm area
followed by extended pit stop??
leg 7 ARN LED 6/5
SK732 1311 1632
leg 8 6/6 LED Moscow SVO or DME there are almost hourly flights, so pick one arriving well before the below ongoing flights
SU569 SVO DXB 2018 0103+1 or
EK134 DME DXB 1745 2244 or
6/7 EK132 0038 0528
6/7 EK866 DXB MCT 0333 0447 or for connection for line above EK862 DME DXB 0830 0930
Based on what we now know, there are several problems with that. Teams start from Narvik and are not likely to go back through Narvik. The are likely to go through Oslo and then get a connecting flight through Stockholm's Arlanda airport to St. Petersburg. That gives us roughly the following:
leg 5 6/3 Harstad-Narvik airport (EVE) to Oslo OSL), choice of
0641 0824 SK4079
0649 0828 DY233
1059 1235 SK1103
1106 1240 DY235
1505 1638 DY227
1704 1837 DY119
1754 1928 SK4095
1853 2028 DY237
OSL ARN 6/3 potential same-day connecting flights are:
0911 1009 SK484
1102 1154 SK864
Note: these below will not connect and there are others later which won't either
1350 1435 DY808
1407 1504 SK874
1512 1602 SK496
1602 1654 SK882
1657 1745 DY816
1730 1821 SK890
1824 1915 SK1484
1830 1915 DY3779
ARN LED 6/3
SK732 1310 1635
most of leg 5 6/3 and 6/4 will be around St. Petersburg and either leg 5 or 6 should have an extended pit stop of perhaps 36 hours. All teams should make the the flight connections as long as they are on one of the first two flights. from Harstad-Narvik airport to Oslo.
leg 6 around St. Petersburg on 6/5 or 6/6
leg 7 6/7 St. Petersburg to Muscat:
LED SVO Aeroflot or Rossiya hourly connecting to SU519 SVO DXB 2018 0103+1 connecting to EK866 DXB MCT 0253+1 0348+1 or
LED DME S7 Airlines or Rossiya hourly connecting to EK134 DME DXB 1745 2244 connecting to EK866 DXB MCT 0253+1 0348+1 or
LED DME S7 Airlines or Rossiya hourly connecting to EK132 DME DXB 0038+1 0528+1 connecting to 6/8 EK862 DXB MCT 0909+1 1007+1
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