Archive > The Amazing Race 18 Spoilers and Speculation
AR18 Transportation Primary Options
DrRox:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on March 01, 2011, 09:29:05 PM ---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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Dont worry Peach. I think the two flights are worked out. I do not think they were charters. There are no strange flights in the system, like the two flights getting to Broken Hill. They can actually use scheduled flights to get back to Sydney.
First one is ZL863 BHQ to SYD @ 125 pm arriving in Sydney at about 6 pm. This would have Phil and his personal crew, BVM and other top dogs and probably the task supervisors......They arrive in Sydney in plenty of time to catch QF21 at 1000 pm to Narita. Gives them 24 hours lead time to do standups and make sure the tasks are set up correctly. This flight time really matches the midday/early afternoon sun in Phil's diary video.
Second one is ZL4883 BHQ to ADL @ 605pm, then XM7053 ADL to SYD @ 815pm. They can then catch JL772 to Narita@ 915am, arrving @ 456pm. I would suspect the lower level production crew on this one. For instance, the guys that film the confessionals and any other crew that would not be needed for the Pit Stop release @ the train station in Sydney.
Train to Sydney @ 630 pm. Race teams and their camera/soundman, 2 or 3 production assts to keep the racers corraled and maybe a couple of battery techs to make sure the batteries are all charged. This could also be done while teams are hanging out all afternoon at that cafe.
So looks good to match your info on "two flights." Just not charters, but regularly scheduled flights.
georgiapeach:
Oh very nice!! Looks good to me!
Neobie:
Got to see lots of Hong Kong Airport being passed off as Kunming today! :lol:
Here are the flights and trains teams took:
Zev/Justin, Gary/Mallory, Ronald/Christina, LaKisha/Jennifer, Herbert/Nathaniel, Jet/Cord, Margie/Luke, Jaime/Cara
NQ 909 (0951-1355) to Hong Kong Intl Airport, Hong Kong
HX 247 (1705-1855) to Kunming Intl Airport, Kunming, Yunnan, China
Taxi to Kunming Train Station, Kunming
Ronald/Christina
L9032 (2050-0538) to Lijiang East Train Station, Lijiang, Yunnan
Zev/Justin, Gary/Mallory, LaKisha/Jennifer, Herbert/Nathaniel, Jet/Cord, Margie/Luke, Jaime/Cara
K9606 (2216-0633) to Lijiang East Train Station
Kent/Vyxsin
OZ 103 (1530-1756) to Incheon Intl Airport, Seoul, Korea
MU 2004 (2210-0135) to Kunming Intl Airport
MU 5951 (0701-0743) to Lijiang Airport, Lijiang
DrRox:
--- Quote from: Neobie on March 14, 2011, 08:03:02 PM ---Got to see lots of Hong Kong Airport being passed off as Kunming today! :lol:
Here are the flights and trains teams took:
Zev/Justin, Gary/Mallory, Ronald/Christina, LaKisha/Jennifer, Herbert/Nathaniel, Jet/Cord, Margie/Luke, Jaime/Cara
NQ 909 (0951-1355) to Hong Kong Intl Airport, Hong Kong
HX 247 (1705-1855) to Kunming Intl Airport, Kunming, Yunnan, China
Taxi to Kunming Train Station, Kunming
Ronald/Christina
L9032 (2050-0538) to Lijiang East Train Station, Lijiang, Yunnan
Zev/Justin, Gary/Mallory, LaKisha/Jennifer, Herbert/Nathaniel, Jet/Cord, Margie/Luke, Jaime/Cara
K9606 (2216-0633) to Lijiang East Train Station
Kent/Vyxsin
OZ 103 (1530-1756) to Incheon Intl Airport, Seoul, Korea
MU 2004 (2210-0135) to Kunming Intl Airport
MU 5951 (0701-0743) to Lijiang Airport, Lijiang
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The Hong Kong connection really meshes with the spoiler girl that said she was on a flight to Bali with connection in Hong Kong. She said she interacted with team(s) from Amazing Race. Plus the 3 hours in Hong Kong would certainly give them time to research flights and trains to Lijiang. I dont know if they all took taxis from the airport to the train station. Jenn and Kisha said they ran in the extra videos. They said there werent enough taxis at the airport
Goldeneye:
I checked the current train schedules for China and it seems that the L9032 train that Ron and Christina took no longer exists, and this was a very recent change in schedules for Chinese trains.
Note that the 'L' in front of the train number means "temporary slow train," and I am not surprised that the L9032 no longer exists in the current train schedule.
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