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TAR 20 Transport
apskip:
I am trying to reconcile the information presented in this telecast to real-time flight information for Dec. 8, 2012. Previous information assumed Dec. 7 but if you count out the days of the race that cannot be true. I cannot quite get the first one to match but it's only a half hour off and has no impact on when teams reach Nairobi.
From Baku there are two flights to Istanbul possible (note - I also checked Dubai, Doha, Muscat and Cairo but none had any flights):
TK337 0800 0915
J2 75 1000 1038
Both streams of teams meet up and got on the same Dec. 8 flight from Istanbul to Nairobi:
TK607 1843 0223+1
So then they wait around for about 5.5 hours for the first Precision Air flight to Arusha, PW724 0800+1 0900+1.
DrRox:
--- Quote from: apskip on April 09, 2012, 11:18:17 AM ---I am trying to reconcile the information presented in this telecast to real-time flight information for Dec. 8, 2012. Previous information assumed Dec. 7 but if you count out the days of the race that cannot be true. I cannot quite get the first one to match but it's only a half hour off and has no impact on when teams reach Nairobi.
From Baku there are two flights to Istanbul possible (note - I also checked Dubai, Doha, Muscat and Cairo but none had any flights):
TK337 0800 0915
J2 75 1000 1038
Both streams of teams meet up and got on the same Dec. 8 flight from Istanbul to Nairobi:
TK607 1843 0223+1
So then they wait around for about 5.5 hours for the first Precision Air flight to Arusha, PW724 0800+1 0900+1.
--- End quote ---
The flight you have teams on from Nairobi to Kilimanjaro International, PW724, is a daylight flight. How do you reconcile that with the episode when teams land at Kilimanjaor in the dark, take a taxi from there to the Arusha airport, sign in for charter flights from Arusha to Ngorogoro, still in the dark. Then they have an HoO waiting for charter flights at 930, 945, 1000?
There is/was no 830 departure to anywhere from Baku on Dec 8. If you noticed the travel agent computer screens, TPTB had them all fogged up so we couldnt see. I think they were trying to fool up. I think a much more likely itinerary was:
GYD to DXB J2 11 1005-12:39 pm
DXB to NBO EK721 305 pm to 715 pm
NBO to JRO PW728 1000 pm to 1100 pm
This fits more into what was seen on the televised episode.
apskip:
I expect that teams will be leaving on December 12 after an extended pit stop in between the 2 Tanzania legs. Here are logical flight connections to go from Kilimanjaro Airport to Nairobi to Mumbai to Trivandrum:
JRO NBO PW723 0600 0655 or PW721 0915 0935 or 5H452 1415 1500
connecting to:
NBO BOM KQ202 1730 0406+1
connecting to:
BOM COK 9W2111 0535+1 0738+1 or SG131 0830 1015 or a number of later flights
In order to reach the first flight out of Kilimanjaro International Airport, teams will probably have to take a taxi for 100 miles (just like AR5)
from the Kibaone area on the west side overlooking Lake Manyara. That will have to be done early enough to reach JRO by about 8am or 1pm, depending on which flight is possible. It [probably rules out the 6am flight for teams.
apskip:
There are a lot of trains on the Eranakulam (either the in-city station or the suburban Junction station) to Trivandrum Central station. Here are the ones that ran on Wednesday Dec. 14, 2011:
0055 0515
1725 2055
0755 1250
1050 1540
0625 1120
0945 1435
0255 0725
2125 0125
2252 0335
1625 2210
0500 0940
1257 1750
0550 1005
0130 0605
1415 1840
0002 0505
0440 1015
1010 1505
0235 0715
1620 2110
0345 0910
1330 1830
1350 1855
So that's 23 separate trains running at the average length of about 4.5 hours.
Bus will be an option for this 130 mile trip, but Indian National Railways will have the edge.
apskip:
I thought I would run find available schedules on buses Kochi to Thivurananthapuram. However, almost all the potential websites provide train schedules only. Although there is bus service, they won't reveal schedules. The only one I discovered was this:
depart Thrissur 2110
arrive Kochi unidentified (but since it's 40 miles and late evening it should arrive soon after 2200)
arrive Alappuzha unidentified
arrive Kollam unidentified
arrive Thiruvananthapuram 0310+1
The road distance Kochi to Thiruvanananthapuram is only 177 km (108 miles).
There is an alternate report that the distance is 205 to 225km (sources vary) and buses take 5 hours, which is what is shown above. It appears that buses move about as slowly as trains do in Kerala.
The India Rail Ministry has approved, but it will be a long time before high speed rail is available in this corridor. when that happens and the first phase of this proposed project is completed travel between Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram will be reduced to 45 minutes.
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