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TAR 35 (formerly "36") Transportation
maf:
Looking at the flight from Vietnam to India it seems teams flew on an Malysia Airways plane for at least one leg.
Zack.:
In previous races, teams leaving Vietnam had to go to a travel agent to get flight reservations and tickets to their next destination (even if they were on the same flight, as what happened this ep). Factoring in that and the 4 hour cab ride from Can Tho to SGN, my best guess is
MH759 SGN KUL 1640 1940
MH198 KUL HYD 2130 2310
6E658 HYD JAI 0520 0720 (+1)
Zack.:
Possibly?:duno: Working backwards, they can connect via BOM on
MH-194 KUL BOM 1935 2215
I5-761 BOM JAI 0655 0840 (+1)
(one of several options; I think Air Asia India is either a member of Oneworld with Malaysian Airlines or else codeshares with them in some way so that would be my pick)
Getting to KUL, we know teams started the leg between 0700 and 0736 assuming no funny business. If they went to a travel agent to get tickets as per usual for legs departing Vietnam, I doubt a travel agency would put them on flights of separate alliances (which would exclude Vietnam Airlines flights). The amount of time it would take to get reservations, taxi four hours to SGN and clear immigration/security means teams could fly on either
AK-529 SGN KUL 1240 1540 (less likely), or
AK-527 SGN KUL 1325 1625
The primary issue regarding the second flight is I'm going off of schedule data vs actual flights perhaps Santa will put a Gold membership in my stocking for Christmas and can't confirm if AK-527 existed during the time of filming and actually flew that day. A secondary issue is I think an extra 45 minutes in this context is trivial, especially if production wanted all teams on the same flight. If a team missed the two flights above, the connections via KUL and HYD are the best bet still.
redskevin88:
--- Quote from: Zack. on November 01, 2023, 11:15:57 PM ---(one of several options; I think Air Asia India is either a member of Oneworld with Malaysian Airlines or else codeshares with them in some way so that would be my pick)
--- End quote ---
AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines are rivals.
Zack.:
Alternatively, teams can fly via IndiGo and arrive early enough to be held at the Amber Fort-
6E-5052 0505 0640
For efficiency's sake I haven't accounted for things like triple connections (say, SGN-KUL-BOM-DEL-JAI or SGN-KUL-SIN-BOM-JAI) or production pre-booking the same flight for all teams.
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