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AR19 Primary TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS
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Peach,
Your first request is more well-defined and easier to answer. Here are the flights from Lilongwe to Johannesburg for yesterday 30 June:
QM201 LLW JNB 0905 1125
SA171 LLW JNB 1340 1550
KQ724 LLW NBO 1315 1625 connecting to KQ764 NBO JNB 2040 2350
For today 1 July, here are the flights:
a Kenya Airways 0230 combination through NBO not arriving until 1705 which no team would want
QM201 LLW JNB 0905 1125
SA171 LLW JNB 1328 1542
KQ722 LLW LUN 1035 1145 connecting to KQ63 LUN JNB 1340 1545
Since you added a new request for flights to Nairobi while I was doing the above, here they are:
For today 1 July here are the only two options for LLW NBO:
KQ734 LLW NBO 0230 0540
KQ722 LLW NBO 1035 1625 (note- this flight stops in Lusaka first)
For tomorrow 2 July KQ731 LLW NBO 1200 1510
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The flight possibilities for Phuket to Johannesburg are really much simpler than I expected. Kuala Lumpur drops out of the equation due to not flying nonstop several applicable days of the week. Connecting in Bangkok requires departure from HKT on 28 June Tuesday night's last flight HKT BKK BR3926 2230 2355 connecting with nonstop TG703 BKK JNB early Wednesday 29 June 0115+1 0730+1, but this does not work for early Thursday morning There is also a connection through Nairobi BKK NBO KQ887 0035+1 to KQ260 NBO JNB 0700+1 1005+1 doesn't work for that date because it is after the departure of SA170 at 1000 to Lilongwe. So, either of the possibilities from Bangkok require leaving almost a full day in the Johannesburg area open, where they might have been used for a South Africa leg (WRP, how about a safari aadventure?).
The better alternative is 29 June Tuesday night MI757 HKT SIN 2010 2255 or 3K538 2205 0050+1 connecting with nonstop SQ478 SIN JNB 0210+1 0700+1. That connects easily with SA170 on Thursday morning.
Chateau d If:
Here's my stab at Phuket to Johannesburg:
* We assume they complete the Phuket leg at 1:00 pm on Saturday the 25th.
* We assume that they are standing in JNB airport at 9:00 am on Thursday the 30th.
Naturally they will want to go to the mountains of Nepal after the Beaches of Phuket. Right? Make sense to me! :lol:
Here is a quick way to get to Kathmandu, Nepal on Sunday the 26th: (takes 6 hours and 15 min)
TG 226 leaves HKT at 7:25 am and arrives BKK at 8:50 am
TG 319 leaves BKK at 10:15 am and arrives KTM at 12:25 pm
Teams spend the next 72 hours racing and resting and racing and waiting (one leg) and are standing at Kathmandu airport at 12:25 pm on Wednesday the 29th.
Here is a quick way to get to Johannesburg by 9:00 am on Thursday the 30th: (takes 20 hours and 15 min)
TG 320 leaves KTM at 1:30 pm and arrives BKK at 6:15 pm
MH 781 leaves BKK at 7:40 pm and arrives KUL at 10:50 pm
MH 203 leaves KUL at 1:20 am and arrives JNB at 6:00 am on the 30th
You can substitute SIN for KUL in getting to JNB and still make this happen.
georgiapeach:
We no longer need a Lilongwe to Joburg option since we know they just came from there.
We do need the Phuket to Joburg options, both with and without an intermediate stop in Nairobi (spec), or somewhere else, or even Katmandu! (total spec)
Looking ahead, we need to look at options leaving Lilongwe, since Joburg is now out of the equation, that pretty much leaves connecting via Nairobi. I would suggest looking at 7/3....
theschnauzers:
Peach, there's nothing saying that there might be a Jo'Berg connection to use to get out of Africa altogether. It wouldn't be the first time teams have had to go back through a city they just left to get somewhere on another continent, so we'd have to see what windows and areas might open up as a result.
I seriously doubt they'll be headed to North Africa, or Greece, so it points to anywhere else in Europe or South America, on paper; but I'd be worried about the Chilean volcano acting up again. I do suspect that the teams will be feed producer supplied air tickets just to make sure they can get out of Africa without 24 hour delays.
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