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DrRox:

--- Quote from: georgiapeach on February 27, 2011, 08:23:21 AM ---Oh okay! Pretty sure the spoiler guy in Broken Hills at the airport said charter as well.

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I have been thinking about this. There is a flight out of Broken Hill to Adeladie at approx 630pm with a makeable connection from Adelaide to Sydney late night. If those production people were not needed in Sydney at the train station, then they could connect with JL772 to Narita on the morning of Nov24 at about 920am. I would think this group would be production people that supervise setting up the detour-route markers. As soon as they got their assignments cleaned up and any gear stored and out to the airport. Also I would think the people in charge of doing the post leg confessionals would have plenty of time to complete their task and catch the 630 flight. I would think the only production people left in Broken Hill would be the production assts that were assigned to herding around the racers and they would ride the train too. I would think that any production personal that were going to take care of the Pit Stop release at the Sydney train station would just ride the train, but, as mentioned above, they could have flown through Adelaide.

I would think that people like BVM, etc would have made the 125pm flight with Phil to get to Japan with a 24 hour head start to make sure the set ups, for the Japan leg, were complete.

Since it appears the tasks in Japan cover a pretty fair amount of distance, I would think that Phil would hit the ground running and do his standups while the teams are in Sydney waiting for their flights. That way Phil could then get a good nights rest at a hotel fairly close to the Japanese Pit Stop and wouldnt really have to leave till notified of teams approaching the Pit Stop. After the last team checks in, he could head to Narita for flights to Kunming or Lijiang if he is not needed for any standups in Kunming. If time is availabe between flights, he could possiblily do some of his Kunming standups before even going to Lijiang to do his standups there. 

Neobie:
Following the sighting by Tombc52, the analysis by Apskip and DrRox, and a trip I just took to both Liechtenstein and Zermatt, here's the itinerary I'm confident LaKisha/Jennifer were on the afternoon of 7 Dec:
IR 1776 from Sargans to Zurich, 1239-1348
IC 826 from Zurich to Visp, 1402-1602
R 249 from Visp to Zermatt, 1625-1734

Sargans is one of the two Swiss Rail stations that serve Liechtenstein, but the other one, Buchs, would not involve the sisters travelling on the Chur-Zurich train on which they were sighted.

If there was a normal Pit Stop (as opposed to a rolling Pit Stop or a TBC) in Vienna, teams would necessarily have flown to get to Liechtenstein. Herbert/Nathaniel were seen racing in Vienna at 11.30am on 6 Dec. If there is a normal Pit Stop that lasts 12h or more, they will not be able to make the last train to Feldkirch (Austrian jump-off point to Liechtenstein) at 11.56pm. The first train option for the next day is a direct, from 7.14am to 1.49pm. However, this is incongruent with the sisters leaving Liechtenstein more than an hour before, before 12.39pm. Teams in this scenario therefore must have flown between Vienna and Liechtenstein.

The first possible itinerary is:
AA 8094 from Vienna to Zurich Airport, 0736-0846
IC 716 from Zurich Airport to Zurich, 0913-0923
IC 565 from Zurich to Sargans, 0937-1032

Prophet:
Good work, Neobie! :hearts:

apskip:
Neobie,

You are assuming that LaKisha and Jen had complete information and took the most efficient route. since I believe that the Buchs route must be essentially the same the way through Zurich, I believe that if they did what the eyewitness reported (and I am not disputing that). My analysis assumed a start from Feldkirch at 1130am has them arriving Zermatt based on this:
POSTAL BUS arrives Buchs 1200
IC train departs Buchs 1212
train arrives Zermatt 1734

georgiapeach:
DrRox...sorry I am swamped at work and have not been able to search for the BHills email. But I THINK there was info that "production" including Phil was flying out that afternoon (while the teams were waitng for the train} and IIRC it was in two flights.

Will see what I can find but prob not until Thurs.

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