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apskip:
I have some ideas on where the next leg could be. The one major city in Europe never visited by an Amazing Race is Madrid and another is Seville.
The major destinations from Mallorca are Germany, the mainland in Spain and the United Kingdom. Air Berlin holds the majority of destinations at the airport, including Alicante, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Madrid, Valencia, Seville and Murcia. Air Europa offers flights to Granada, Malaga, Paris-Orly and Rome-Fiumicino, and Iberworld flies to Aberdeen. Easyjet and Ryanair, two very popular low-cost airline companies offer a number of destinations from the airport as well. Other prominent airline carriers departing from Palma de Mallorca Airport include Lufthansa, Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomson Airways, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Bmibaby, Jet2 and Vueling.
When I look at today's departures (yesterday's would be similar), I found only 2 nonstop to Seville, although you can connect in Madrid to get there. These nonstops were at 1515 this afternoon and at 2215 tonight.
To Madrid there are a wealth of flights:
0636
0820
0929
1015
1235
1240
1515
1540
1905
2025
2130
DrRox:
Since they are in Spain....I started researching flights "Across the Pond." There are lots of them to many destinations......but two just sort of stuck out to me.......they might not stick out to anyone else, fwiw
US 743 Barcelona to Philly.......arrives at 1 pm.....plenty of time to run a leg after that.
US 741 Madrid to Phily ...........arrives avg between 2-3 pm.......lots of light.
June 21 is longest day of the year.....and as the_schnauzers has posted already......the higher the latitude.......the longer the day.
Plus it would be fun to watch the TAR winners run up the "Rocky Steps!!"
Won't happen....but would still be fun.
dpe:
--- Quote from: DrRox on June 15, 2012, 08:05:27 AM ---Since they are in Spain....I started researching flights "Across the Pond." There are lots of them to many destinations......but two just sort of stuck out to me.......they might not stick out to anyone else, fwiw
US 743 Barcelona to Philly.......arrives at 1 pm.....plenty of time to run a leg after that.
US 741 Madrid to Phily ...........arrives avg between 2-3 pm.......lots of light.
June 21 is longest day of the year.....and as the_schnauzers has posted already......the higher the latitude.......the longer the day.
Plus it would be fun to watch the TAR winners run up the "Rocky Steps!!"
Won't happen....but would still be fun.
--- End quote ---
Lots of East coast speculation, which I think would be interesting, but lots of other options.
11:55 am → 2:15 pm MAD-ORD S M T W T F S Iberia 6275
1:00 pm → 4:30 pm MAD-DFW S M T W T F S American 37
to mention a few
apskip:
dpe,
Yes there are flights to the Midwest (ORD and DFW) from MAD, but my personal bet is that it is long overdue for an East Coast destination from Europe to be the way teams teams. So, here is a comprehensive list of times for Madrid departures to the major East Coast airports, except for Orlando which has no nonstop flights from Madrid:
BOS - on Sunday 1355
JFK - on Saturday: 1225 1350 1650; on Sunday, same + 1730
EWR - on Saturday and Sunday 1135
PHL - on Saturday and Sunday 1220
IAD - on Saturday and Sunday 1100
ATL - on Sunday 1100
MIA - on Saturday 1100 1200; on Sunday same + 1425
I know that World Race Productions likes to bring teams home as early as possible in the day, due to traffic and making spotting them more difficult. My conclusion is that Washington is the most probable destination, having never had either an Amazing Race first or last leg.
dpe:
Washington would be a very visible location don't you think? plus, this time of year it's packed with visitors, but most of the big cities will be packed. would make an interesting ending city.
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