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Chateau d If:
The head cloth on the seats indicates Singapore Airlines
This was capped as Teams boarded their flight from SUB. But that does not mean this is the plan they flew out of SUB on!
We already know from race-time spoilers that they were on CI 752 SUB to SIN on June 2nd. That aircraft was an Airbus 330-300 under China Air. The key point of the screen cap is that the flight from SIN to DAC now has to be Singapore Airlines SQ 446 leaving at 8:37 pm and arriving at 10:35 pm. And that flight was also an Airbus 330-300. The wide body seating configuration of the 330-300 matches what we saw in the show.
My guess would be that they all had to wait inside the airport until the morning of June 3rd. It has to be the morning because Abbie's wrist watch says 10:50 as they are hunting for the fish at the Kawran Bazaar Shootkir Market.
DrRox:
Good eye on the head cloth, Chateau. Your conclusions are pretty much what I had decided. I wonder why the production ruse at the travel agency with the talk of the 10:00 am flight? I dont really get that. I have my own theories about the midnight travel agencies we see all the time in TAR.
Keeping teams at the Dhaka airport is certainly a possibllity....but why not just take them to a hotel for the night and then back to airport for fake exit the next morning. It was pretty obviously going to be a very long day and TAR has practice teams do the course before real teams arrive. It was not far from sundown when Gary/Will checked in with Phil. The shot over Phil's shoulder has a great shot of the sun, very low on the horizon. This was certainly not one of the 3-4 hour legs.
No hotel in the terminal, but the Dhaka Regency is 2-3 minutes away and the Radisson is 4-5 minutes from terminal.
maf:
--- Quote from: DrRox on October 23, 2012, 07:58:29 AM ---Good eye on the head cloth, Chateau. Your conclusions are pretty much what I had decided. I wonder why the production ruse at the travel agency with the talk of the 10:00 am flight? I dont really get that. I have my own theories about the midnight travel agencies we see all the time in TAR.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the travel agency sold them the 10.00 flight because it made the whole flight cheaper and didn't affect their ultimate arrival time. But when teams arrived at the airport and saw an earlier flight they all switched to that. This is howerver pure speculation.
/MaF
apskip:
--- Quote from: DrRox on October 22, 2012, 07:56:17 AM ---Lots of interesting things in Leg 5 episode.
1) The pit stop release appears, to me, to be in Surabaya.
2) Another late night travel agency. Seems the racers, at least the first two teams, went to the same one.
3) There is no 10 o'clock Singapore Airlines flight from Surabaya to Singepore. There is a Silkair, MI221, that is also listed as a codeshare for Singapore Airlines. It did arrive in Singapore with time to make the early Birman Banglasesh flight connection to Dhaka.
4) It looked to me that all of the TAR team, racers and crews, were allowed to pre-board. The airliner is a wide body jet. You can tell by the two aisles.
5) Both the Birman Banglasesh and Singapore Air flights from Singapore to Dhaka were wide body jets.
6) Only the very early China Airlines (CI752) flight at 6 am from Surabaya to Singapore was a wide body aircraft. The 10 am Silkair MI221 fight (Singapore codeshare) was a small body, single aisle, aircraft.
7) The interior of the jet the teams were seen entering seemed pretty austere to me. It did not look like what I would think a Singapore Airlines aircraft would look like. It seemed pretty bare bones, as a matter of fact, which I would think would suggest another airline.
There was a sign highlighted for just a second, just before Abbie/Ryan exited their cab at the travel agency. Maybe some of the screen grabbers will find that sign and we might be able to locate the travel agency.
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I think that all teams were on MI221 SUB SIN 1000 1304 connecting to BG85 1515 1635 on June 2. T^his is what the travel agency people said, so why would that be jury-rigged? Sunset in Dhaka on June 2 was at 1935, which gave 3 hours to complete the tasks.
georgiapeach:
Here are two caps, see if they help:
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