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TAR 18 Finale speculation and discussion
FLFan:
--- Quote from: DrRox on December 19, 2010, 09:33:47 PM ---In this instance, in Miami, the airline does not collect/hold unclaimed checked baggage.......Customs does. Now, if they cleared customs with their baggage and just dumped it on the floor.....probably end up in someone's trunk or in lost and found.
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These days unattended luggage in or near an airport, even in a trash can, is grounds for calling the bomb squad. Heck, in my area, they blew up a large stuffed toy horse found in a neighborhood, just because it appeared "suspicious". It was one of those large, motorized walking stuffed horses, the x-ray was inconclusive, so they blew it up, just in case.....
DrRox:
--- Quote from: AmazingRace on February 05, 2011, 12:47:49 AM ---Jaime & Cara checked in their bags for the flight to their Final Destination City and just left the airport without them.
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This is true......but you can't compare TAR 14 with TAR18...it is apples and oranges. TAR14 Final 3 cleard US Immigration and Customs at the Honolulu airport, then connected to Maui on another flight. In this case, the airline would hold any unclaimed bags from the baggage carosel in Maui. In TAR18, the Final3 cleared US Immigration and Customs in Miami. If TAR18 team(s) checked baggage in Sao Paulo, it would be held in the Customs Hall. Again, I dont know if you could exit the Customs Hall without your checked baggage. If a team was going to abandon their stuff, I would think they would do it in Sao Paulo, before they got to the airport. In several TARs we have seen teams get rid of stuff before heading home.
In TAR5, Colin/Christie and Brandon/Nicole packed their stuff in boxes and checked it from Calgary, Canada to Dallas, Texas. How did they get away with this? Well I believe they cleared US Immigration and Customs at the Calgary Airport. Maybe some of the Canadian members can confirm this. At the time, Canada and US had different agreements about this. I am not sure if this is still possible now.
I have always wondered if teams showed up at the sequestor hotel before the race with just the backpacks. This didn't really seem feasible. So then, I wondered what WRP did with their leftover luggage. It was not till TAR13 when Bill and Mark showed up at Elimination Station and went to their room and, low and behold , there was their rolling luggage on their beds. So production takes possession of their extra luggage and returns it to them after they are elminated. I still dont know if production just sends all teams extra luggage to the elimination station or if they haul it along the race course and then gives it to the teams to take to elimination station. IF elmination station teams didnt want to mess with backpacks, then they could have packed all that stuff in their luggage and let production transport it to their after Finish Line hotel. We saw teams in TAR16 arriving in SF and none collected any luggage and none that I remember had any backpacks either. They were transported to Candlestick Park to the finish line. Production must have collected their at some point and tranported it to their hotel.
milanissimo:
I have a feeling that another female team will win ....
My prediction of final three teams:Kisha and Jen ,Marge and Luke and Gary and Mallory..
:waves: :waves:
apskip:
--- Quote from: DrRox on February 09, 2011, 11:55:22 PM ---
--- Quote from: AmazingRace on February 05, 2011, 12:47:49 AM ---Jaime & Cara checked in their bags for the flight to their Final Destination City and just left the airport without them.
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This is true......but you can't compare TAR 14 with TAR18...it is apples and oranges. TAR14 Final 3 cleard US Immigration and Customs at the Honolulu airport, then connected to Maui on another flight. In this case, the airline would hold any unclaimed bags from the baggage carosel in Maui. In TAR18, the Final3 cleared US Immigration and Customs in Miami. If TAR18 team(s) checked baggage in Sao Paulo, it would be held in the Customs Hall. Again, I dont know if you could exit the Customs Hall without your checked baggage. If a team was going to abandon their stuff, I would think they would do it in Sao Paulo, before they got to the airport. In several TARs we have seen teams get rid of stuff before heading home.
In TAR5, Colin/Christie and Brandon/Nicole packed their stuff in boxes and checked it from Calgary, Canada to Dallas, Texas. How did they get away with this? Well I believe they cleared US Immigration and Customs at the Calgary Airport. Maybe some of the Canadian members can confirm this. At the time, Canada and US had different agreements about this. I am not sure if this is still possible now.
I have always wondered if teams showed up at the sequestor hotel before the race with just the backpacks. This didn't really seem feasible. So then, I wondered what WRP did with their leftover luggage. It was not till TAR13 when Bill and Mark showed up at Elimination Station and went to their room and, low and behold , there was their rolling luggage on their beds. So production takes possession of their extra luggage and returns it to them after they are elminated. I still dont know if production just sends all teams extra luggage to the elimination station or if they haul it along the race course and then gives it to the teams to take to elimination station. IF elmination station teams didnt want to mess with backpacks, then they could have packed all that stuff in their luggage and let production transport it to their after Finish Line hotel. We saw teams in TAR16 arriving in SF and none collected any luggage and none that I remember had any backpacks either. They were transported to Candlestick Park to the finish line. Production must have collected their at some point and tranported it to their hotel.
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Dr. Rox,
I agree with you that Colin/Christie and Brandon/Nicole probably cleared U.S. customs in Calgary along with Chip/Kim. However, that is only a small part of the sad story that was the bizarre finale of AR5. Colin/Christie and Brandon/Nicole wanted to switch from their American Airlines reservations for Denver to DFW to United (where Chip/Kim had obtained scarce reservations to night before by arriving much later to Calgary airport as a result of their poor performance on the tasks), but I strongly believe that the American Airlines customer service rep who encouraged them to check their luggage through cost them a shot at winning AR5. U.S. airport regulations in effect then (and probably still today) prevented them from going on any flight except with the checked luggage (which was the slightly later American flight) and gave Chip/Kim the crucial lead of over 10 minutes into DFW that ultimately was about their victory margin.
DrRox:
--- Quote from: apskip on February 10, 2011, 09:50:15 AM ---
Dr. Rox,
I agree with you that Colin/Christie and Brandon/Nicole probably cleared U.S. customs in Calgary along with Chip/Kim. However, that is only a small part of the sad story that was the bizarre finale of AR5. Colin/Christie and Brandon/Nicole wanted to switch from their American Airlines reservations for Denver to DFW to United (where Chip/Kim had obtained scarce reservations to night before by arriving much later to Calgary airport as a result of their poor performance on the tasks), but I strongly believe that the American Airlines customer service rep who encouraged them to check their luggage through cost them a shot at winning AR5. U.S. airport regulations in effect then (and probably still today) prevented them from going on any flight except with the checked luggage (which was the slightly later American flight) and gave Chip/Kim the crucial lead of over 10 minutes into DFW that ultimately was about their victory margin.
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Yes apskip, one of many sad stories in the "Naked City" of the Amazing Race. One not to dissimiliar with the TAR6 ending, with Jon and Kriss being sabotaged by an AA agent in Honolulu. Here is an intersting thing about Colin/Christie. He no longer tags any of the few pictures of her on his FB page, when everyone else is tagged. On her facebook page, she is living in another city far far away from Corpus Christi and using her maiden name. Hmmmmm
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