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AR19 Primary TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS
Chateau d If:
Apskip, I think your identification of AMS as the incoming flight may be the winner after all :-[
I had ignored the tweet found by Plaidmoon that places the Teams in Helsinki because I was filtering for an early morning start:
--- Quote from: Plaidmoon2 on July 09, 2011, 06:24:39 AM ---Here's an interesting tweet. Hope it's true!
Omg the amazing race is in Helsinki!!! I love that show, wish they would still show it in the uk!!! #fb
48 minutes ago
http://twitter.com/#!/cyberskatergirl
--- End quote ---
With that tweet in mind we can imagine that the route taken by the Teams was:
KL 1164 leaving HEL at 6:35 am and arriving AMS at 8:05 am
DL 175 leaving AMS at 9:00 am and arriving ATL at 12:55 pm (actual time was 12:19 pm)
apskip:
I failed to detect that the international to international minimum connect time for AMS is 50 minutes, not the 1 hour I assumed. That resulted in my not picking up a 805am arrival time in AMS from Helsinki and several other places (Basel WX5200, Strasbourg YS 5284 and Stavanger KL1976) as OK for connecting to DL175. That is a connection that I personally would not book for Schiphol Airport if I depended on it. If teams had to make it and missed, they would have to take either:
DL239 which arrived ATL 234p or
KL621 which arrived ATL 845p
Pillowpal, ATL is not the final city until we actually spot F3 teams there. AR19 is not over for RFF until it is over.
Plaidmoon:
--- Quote from: Chateau d If on July 10, 2011, 09:21:56 PM ---Apskip, I think your identification of AMS as the incoming flight may be the winner after all :-[
I had ignored the tweet found by Plaidmoon that places the Teams in Helsinki because I was filtering for an early morning start:
--- Quote from: Plaidmoon2 on July 09, 2011, 06:24:39 AM ---Here's an interesting tweet. Hope it's true!
Omg the amazing race is in Helsinki!!! I love that show, wish they would still show it in the uk!!! #fb
48 minutes ago
http://twitter.com/#!/cyberskatergirl
--- End quote ---
With that tweet in mind we can imagine that the route taken by the Teams was:
KL 1164 leaving HEL at 6:35 am and arriving AMS at 8:05 am
DL 175 leaving AMS at 9:00 am and arriving ATL at 12:55 pm (actual time was 12:19 pm)
--- End quote ---
I was kind of discounting Helsinki myself, as I figured that the TAR production staff would want to have the teams arrive in the morning rather than in the afternoon. As Apskip pointed out, if you miss the tight connection on that set of flights, there are a couple of flights arriving around 2:30 - 3:00 PM and everything else arrives after 5:30 PM, which would probably ensure a sundown low light conclusion to the race and I doubt if they wanted that. However, since the teams arrived at around the right time for the 12:55 PM flight, I think Helsinki remains a possibility, though probably only about a 30%-40% possibility.
It's too bad that the tweeter in Helsinki isn't responding to my questions. A little information from her could clear this up quickly.
Prophet:
I think Chateau is working on that and probably has a better feel for it but these are the options that I personally found:
DL 15 from Frankfurt
DL 109 from Madrid or
DL 11 from London.
georgiapeach:
Chateau will be the man...but there was a possible Paris flight as well...
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