Something to think about.........
Teams finished Leg 7 in Varanasi about sunset on Dec 3, 2110.
Phil flew to Vienna on Dec 4, 2110. It was too late to fly out of Varanasi on Dec 3 for him. He arrived in Vienna the morning of Dec 5, which gives him the day to film his standups.
There were 4 flights from Varanasi on Dec 5, between 1340-1615 that teams could use to fly from Varanasi to Delhi. It all depends on when teams were released from the extended Pit Stop.
Cowboys were seen about midnight of Dec5/6 in the food court of the Delhi airport. They were obviously waiting for OS34, 0230-0600 (0549). It did arrive 21 minutes early. If one would project 1 hour to deplane and clear custom/immigration, then Cowboys could have been on the road at about 0649 on Dec 6th.
No other teams were observed traveling on this leg.
But........................................
There is another flight to Vienna from India. It is OS 36. BOM (Mumbai)-VIE, 0125-0535 (0504), arriving 31 minutes early.
There was only 1 flight from Varanasi to Mumbai that day, Dec 5, 2110 IC 195 1345-1545. That seems like a pretty hard flight to catch unless teams were released to simulate a old fashioned 12 hour pit stop.
But if teams were to do a Mirna/Charla and fly from Varanasi to Delhi.......then there were 15 flights from Delhi to Mumbai from about 1800 to 2330.......plenty of time to catch the OS 36 @ 0125. This could explain a couple of things....
1) no other teams were spotted in the Delhi airport, only the Cowboys.....
2) could explain the Cowboys comment coming out of that castle....they are head of at least one team with an approximate 40 minute headstart on arriving in Vienna........
3) Could mean the pack is trying to separate itself from the Cowboys and left them alone in the Delhi airport.