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georgiapeach:
What day are you using?
georgiapeach:
--- Quote from: apskip on March 25, 2012, 09:49:06 PM ---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.
--- End quote ---
Using Dec 7 I get this:
IST Istanbul TK 1636 Turkish Airlines
Scheduled Departure: Scheduled Arrival:
6:20 PM - Wed 07-Dec-2011 9:55 PM - Wed 07-Dec-2011
Actual Departure: Actual Arrival:
6:36 PM - Wed 07-Dec-2011 10:02 PM - Wed 07-Dec-2011
So a tight but not impossible connection for TK 338:
DEPARTURE ARRIVAL
Scheduled Departure: Scheduled Arrival:
11:30 PM - Wed 07-Dec-2011 4:10 AM - Thu 08-Dec-2011
Actual Departure:
11:35 PM - Wed 07-Dec-2011
apskip:
Peach you are right. I pulled the wrong number from a table. It should be actual departure of 2335 from Istanbul. However, we agree on the departure from Munich of 1836 arrival Istanbul 2202. This gives ample time for a connection.
apskip:
The release time of Art/JJ at 848am is another example of World Race Productions engineering the pit stop time to assure a bunching at Munich airport. I believe this to be a 21 hour pit stop. The effect it had versus a shorter one was to prevent Art/JJ from having the time to drive for 4 hours to Frankfurt for the nonstop flight leaving at 1330. Since the next-earlier flight to the one they ended up on was at 1115 from Munich, they could not even make that. They had to wait at Munich airport as all the other teams arrived.
There is some fascinating reading in the arrival/departure of flight connections through Moscow. Here is a connection through Domodedovo:
Dec. 7 MUC DME 1305 1920 connecting DME GYD J2853 2338 0228+1. None of the other teams could have made this, but Art/JJ certainly had a shot at it.
Plaidmoon:
--- Quote from: apskip on March 26, 2012, 07:26:24 AM ---The release time of Art/JJ at 848am is another example of World Race Productions engineering the pit stop time to assure a bunching at Munich airport. I believe this to be a 21 hour pit stop. The effect it had versus a shorter one was to prevent Art/JJ from having the time to drive for 4 hours to Frankfurt for the nonstop flight leaving at 1330. Since the next-earlier flight to the one they ended up on was at 1115 from Munich, they could not even make that. They had to wait at Munich airport as all the other teams arrived.
There is some fascinating reading in the arrival/departure of flight connections through Moscow. Here is a connection through Domodedovo:
Dec. 7 MUC DME 1305 1920 connecting DME GYD J2853 2338 0228+1. None of the other teams could have made this, but Art/JJ certainly had a shot at it.
--- End quote ---
Even if Art and JJ had gotten the earlier flight through Moscow, they still would have been held up by the HOO at the Temple Ateshgah, although I suspect that was arranged by the TAR production staff just to be doubly safe.
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