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littlewop:

--- Quote from: apskip on March 23, 2012, 04:26:36 PM ---I have taken a deeper look at the flights from Frankfurt or Munich via Istanbul or Moscow to Baku. My starting assumption is that teams will be bunched reasonably close together, so World Race Productions would have no need to slow down the lead teams with unusual pit stop length. I am estimating teams might have finished leg 5 around 11am to noon and been released from the pit stop between 11pm and midnight. It takes perhaps 4 hours to drive to Frankfurt and perhaps 2 hours to Munich, so what would they find?

Here are the better flights from Frankfurt to Istanbul to Baku:
TK1598 0745 1128 TK334 1500 1945
LH612 1330 2100 nonstop

Here are the better flights from Munich to Istanbul to Baku:
TK1638 0730 1103 TK334 1500 1945
TK1636 1155 1736 TK338 2230 0410+1

Here is a flight from Munich to Moscow-SVO to Baku:
SV2323 1225 1730 SV1852 2335 0025+1

This suggests that unless a team is released after 5am (making the TK1638/TK334 combination untenable) they should go to Munich because that combination is equivalent to TK1598/TK334 from Frankfurt, with less risk from driving half as long.

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In the previews it shows Vanessa/Ralph reading the pit start clue.  It does not look like it is 11pm to midnight.  How does this new info fit into the transportation estimations?

apskip:
littlewop,

If trains are used, you can see that the first one at 601am toward either Frankfurt or Munich should not be impacted unless the pit stop time is longer than 18 hours.

If self-driving is used, then here are the implications:
if Vanessa/Ralph do not get released on or before 2am, they will not make the first flight combination from Frankfurt to Baku.
If they do not get released on or before 4am, they will not make the first flight combination from Munich to Baku.

Jimmer:
Apskip,

A while up, you said that teams checked in between 1100-1200, but Dave and Rachel said they were getting a 12:50 tour for Hohenschwangau Castle, so I think you initial estimates were wrong.

apskip:
JImmer25,

You are right and I have to be off by about 2 hours for the later teams. I think Art&JJ will still be before 12 noon.

apskip:
I am having some problems with the flight combination cited on this telecast. The connection in Istanbul to TK338 2230 0410+1 was identified earlier. However, the flight from Munich to Istanbul does not have proper connect time:

TK1636 1836 2202

There are no alternatives for either flight that get teams to Baku before daybreak.

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