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AR19 Primary TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS
theschnauzers:
Production might have decided to provide the tickets; that's another possibility that hasn't been raised. Especially with the Thailand legs likely being the emergency replacements.
apskip:
theschnauzers,
You could very well be correct. However, there would not be a private jet for a 5000+ miles trip, so there must be combinations of flights that the teams take even if they do not control which ones they are on.
redskevin88:
--- Quote from: apskip on October 27, 2011, 04:42:40 PM ---theschnauzers,
You could very well be correct. However, there would not be a private jet for a 5000+ miles trip, so there must be combinations of flights that the teams take even if they do not control which ones they are on.
--- End quote ---
apskip, ever heard of chartered flights? or provided tickets?
apskip:
redskevin,
Let me repeat:
"You could very well be correct (about provided tickets). However, there would not be a private jet for a 5000+ miles trip, so there must be combinations of flights that the teams take even if they do not control which ones they are on."
Since you don't understand what I said, I will go through the logic of this. While it is true that there are very occasionally chartered flights, THERE WOULD NOT BE A PRIVATE JET FOR A 5000+ MILE TRIP. The reason is simple economics of operating a jet for long distances. There are economies of scale which demand that 200+ passenger planes make flights of that length. That is my opinion and you are free to disagree with it. We'll see who is correct. If there is ever a flight segment where a private plane makes sense, it is Johannesburg to Lilongwe because of the low frequency of weekly flights. Even there, World Race Productions elected to go with commercial flights.
apskip:
I want to mail the lid on the coffin for this. Here is the list of the 4 charter flights in the entire history of the U.S. Amazing Race:
AR1, Cape Aviation Business Centre, teams had to sign up for one of two charter flights to Walvis Bay, Namibia at 9:00 am and 12:00 pm Capetown to Walvis Bay 794 miles
AR2, Adelaide (National Jet Systems Terminal) to Coober Pedy (Coober Pedy Airport)
Adelaide to Cooper Pedy 435 miles
AR5, Nairobi (Jomo Kenyatta International Airport - Z. Boskovic Air Charters) to Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Nairobi to Kilimanjaro 126 miles
AR6, Addis Ababa (Bole International Airport) to Lalibela (Lalibela Airport) Addis Ababa to Laibela 208 miles
Since AR6, no charter flights that I can locate.
In other words, these are all flights of well under 1000 miles.
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