AR13 TIMELINE(modified Nov. 25 to take out theoretical flight possibilties and show only real flight choices)
Depending on when they arrive at LAX, teams have choices of 3 flight combinations to Salvador:
4/22, leg 1
teams were directed to:
LAX MIA AA252 1355 2142 connecting in Miami with MIA GIG 2310 1050+1 connecting Rio de Janeiro with GIG SSA G31600 1115 1220
LAX GRU UA843 1405 1005+1 with a stop in ORD from 2005 to 2132 connecting in Sao Paulo with GRU SSA JJ3154 1200 1425
tasks in Salvador; then Hours of Operation(sleeping in a tent at an army base to await staggered transportation)
4/23 tasks in Salvador
4/24 We know the elevator task in Salvador is this morning followed soon after by a pitstop.
4/25 leg 2, choices of flight from Salvador to Fortaleza was:
SSA FOR G31642 0645 0945
followed by tasks in Fortzaleza that are complete around 1pm or slightly later;
36 Hour extended pitstop in Fortaleza ends 4/27 from about 1am to about a half hour later
4/26 pitstop continued
4/27 leg 3 FOR LPB JJ3325 FOR GRU 0730 1130 connecting in Sao Paulo with 5L301 GRU VVI 1600 1730, then connecting in Santa Cruz with 5L211 VVI LPB 1900 2000 then teams get from Lapaz airport to outdoor sleeping area
4/28 tasks in Bolivia starting around 7am;
36 hour extended pitstop
4/29 pitstop continued
4/30 pitstop release just after midnight; start of leg 4
LAN 965 LPN SCL through Iquique 1245 1745 or
5L300 LPB VVI 0715 0815 connecting SantaCruz to 5L210 VVI EZE 1015 1500 connecting Buenos Aires to LA450 EZE SCL 1550 1710
LAN801 2245 0355+2 SCL AKL, the trans-South Pacific Crossing
5/2 leg 4
Teams do tasks on the North Island of New Zealand from 4am until pitstop checkin from 1030am until about 7pm.
5/3 and 5/4, leg 5
Teams return with a 2 hour drive to Auckland International Airport and fly out in multiple bunches from early afternoon until midnight. Choices of routes from AKL to REP (Siem Reap) are:
AKL SYD QF114 1350 1510 connecting with QF319 SYD SIN 1635 2145 and then 3K595 SIN REP 0600+1 0700+1
AKL BNE EK433 1655 1835 this then continues on the same flight to Singapore with BNE SIN EK433 2045 0150+1 and then SIN REP 3K595 0600+1 0700+1
Another route is AKL MEL 1300 1500 NZ2725 or 1615 1815 QF134
One late team(Aja/Ty) on AKL SIN 2355 0645 SQ282 connecting there with SIN BKK SQ970 0845 1010 then BKK REP PG905 1100 1220
5/4 continued
tasks in Siem Reap area, then extended 36 hour pitstop
5/5,
pitstop
5/6 start of leg 6
Siem Reap to Bangkok airport
PG904 REP BKK 0950 1045 .
Choice of this nonstop flights from BKK to DEL:
IC854 BKK DEL 1330 1615
arrival into downtown Delhi would be around 1800.
5/7
Delhi tasks and start of pitstop(either 12 or 36 hour)
5/8 or 5/9 leg 7 begins, Delhi area tasks;
pitstop (either 36 or 12 hour, the opposite of the length of the 5/7 pitstop)
5/9 leg 8 begins in the afternoon; Delhi to Almaty Kazakhstan
there were 3 different routes chosen, inexplicable to me based on what should have been an easy connection through Dubai that would have arrived at 1630:
Nick/Starr, Toni/Dallas and Ken/Tina
DEL FRA LH761 0225 0710 connects FRA ALA LH648 1320 2350
Dan/Andrew
DEL DXB EK513 0415 0630 connects DXB ALA KC898 2255 0515
Terence/Sarah
DEL SVO SU536 0430-0930 connects with TK1414 SVO IST 1350 1555 connects with TK1352 IST 1725 0150+1
5/10 Almaty area tasks; pitstop
5/11 leg 9 begins; fly KC871 ALA SVO 0615 0800;
tasks in Moscow area;
extended 36 hour pitstop
5/12 pitstop continued
5/13 leg 10 begins; tasks in Moscow area; regular pitstop
5/14 leg 11, the FINISH LINE in The Rose City, Portland Oregon
0705 0825 LH3189 DME FRA
0945 1120 LH468 FRA PDX, then tasks until FINISH LINE
For any teams who are too late (due to retrieval of lost documents or due to not having enough money for the taxi ride) to make the 0705 flight, then the next best alternative is the combination
KL3105 SVO AMS 1010 1200 connecting with KL6033 AMS SEA KL8067 1315 1435 connecting with SEA PDX 1600 1650
The connections on this flight are reasonably tight, so there is no possiblity of any other flights on the same routes to shave time. It starts 3 hours after LH3189 and it has one more connection, causing on-time arrival in Portland to be 5.5 hours behind LH648.