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AR19 Primary TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS
apskip:
Peach,
Why does a flight that takes only 3 hours 10 minutes from Lilongwe nonstop to Nairobi take 5 hours 50 minutes direct? The answer is that KQ732 continues from Lusaka to Nairobi.
DrRox:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on July 03, 2011, 08:16:51 PM ---My chart shows that 732 goes to Lusaka.... I was just struggling with this as well.
KQ 732 Flight Information Route: From (LLW) Lilongwe, MW to (LUN) Lusaka, ZM
--- Quote from: apskip on July 03, 2011, 08:07:48 PM ---How did teams get from Lilongwe to Nairobi to connect with KQ116 to Amsterdam there?
There are two decent possibilities direct and some really awful connections. Here are the direct flights LLW NBO:
KQ731 July 2 1200 1520
KQ732 July 2 LLW NBO 2355 0545+1
The latter is much more likely.
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KQ 732 is certainly an "odd" flight. I checked a week after the July2/3 time frame and a week before.......and the flight does not appear. I suspect it is a WRP "charter" or maybe a "semi-charter" flight. The aircraft is an Embraer 190 which is equivilent to a Boeing 737 in capacity. After further research, it is just a regular weekend intinerary for Kenya Airlines.
I found for KQ 732.......
July 2, 2011
NBO to LLW 9:45 pm to 10:55 pm
LLW to LUN 11:55 pm (July 2) to 1:05 am (July3)
July 3, 2011
LUN to NBO 2:05 am to 5:45 am.....
It appears to be a circle route out of Nairobi.....I could see WRP negociating with an E African airline for a "special" flight after the mess in TAR11. Also they could move teams that way, without having to spend time waiting in airports to make connections back to Europe.
The 0545 arrival time will give them 2 hr 20 minutes to make the KQ116, 0810 flight to Amsterdam from Nairobi.
edited to add additional information....
theschnauzers:
That would be consistent with my suggestion that teams would be given tickets for their flight to get out of Africa.
Chateau d If:
And here along I was thinking that our Tweeter was on the KLM flight KL 566 that arrived at 5:40 am :lol:
The reasoning being that his flight from Amsterdam to Nairobi 12 days before was on KLM flight KL 565 based on his tweet made June 20th:
--- Quote ---I'm in Amsterdam, Leaving for Kenya in 8. Must sleep.
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apskip:
Chateau has presented his educated guesses about where in extended Europe AR19 will depart from:
Madrid
Dubai
Tel Aviv
Odessa
Istanbul
Kuwait
Amman
Damascus
Riyadh
Doha
Beirut
Jeddah
Muscat
Baku
I have different educated guesses, which I base on an analysis of East Coast (plus Atlanta) airports. I did an exhaustive but not absolutely comprehensive search of all flights (except a few where I could not read my handwriting) from extended Europe nonstop to Boston, New York JFK, Newark, Philadelphia, Washington IAD, Charlotte, Atlanta, Orlando and Miami airports since it was only on all flights today. Here is that analysis:
Boston - Munich, CDG, Munich, Frankfurt, LHR, Amsterdam, Zurich
JFK - AMS, Tel Aviv, Luxembourg, FRA, CDG, Liege(?), LHR, Helsinki, Madrid, Moscow, Brussels, Keflavik, ZRH, Dublin, Valencia, Milan, Nice, Vienna, Madrid, Manchester, Stockholm, Munich, Geneva, Athens, Budapest, Rome, Amman, Istanbul, Venice, Copenhagen, Pisa, Shannon, Barcelona
EWR - LHR, Keflavik, FRA, TLV, Copenhagen, Shannon, Dublin, Glasgow, AMS, Cologne, Berlin, Stockholm, Edinburgh, Brussels, Geneva, Manchester, CDG, Paris-Orly, Munich, Stuttgart, Milan, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Athens, Warsaw
PHL - LHR, TLV, Lisbon, Manchester, Dublin, Glasgow, Frankfurt, CDG, ZRH, Venice, Munich, Rome, Athens
IAD - LHR, MAD, Vienna, Brussels, Vienna, AMS, CDG, Rome, ZRH, Manchester, CDG
CLT - Dublin, MAD, CDG, FRA, Munich
ATL - Athens, Leipzig (?), AMS, Dusseldorf, FRA, Barcelona, MAD, Munich Stuttgart, Milan, Moscow, Dublin, Rome, Venice, CDG, LHR
MCO - AMS, Dublin, Edinburgh, FRA, Glasgow, London-Gatwick, MAD, Manchester, CDG
MIA - Budapest, MAD, Venice, Milan
So, what does all this mean, as it could be any one of the above 37 extended European departure points (or it could be a connecting-in-the-US flight which would destroy my logic)? I happen to like the places where past Amazing Race seasons have bypassed. The most prominent of those are Munich, Dusseldorf, Brussels, Madrid or Copenhagen, since I exclude Glasgow, Edinburgh and Manchester for being off the continent proper, Valencia for having only 1 flight and Leipzig and Liege for having 1 weird flight each. I think it could be any of the most prominent 5. We'll see.
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