It's a good time to take a hard look at when teams reached the Bayon Temple pitstop and when they will likely be released, all for the purpose of estimating which flights they might get to Bangkok and then on to Delhi. So here is my take on it starting with 0700 arrival on flight 3K595:
Time to Do Each Task Efficiently-
With Camerman and Soundman, Get Through Customs speedily 30 minutes
Taxi from Siem Reap Airport to Gas Pump task 20 minutes
Gas Pump Task 10 minutes
Be driven in back of truck to Siem Reap Dock 15 minutes
Be driven in motorboat to Kho Andeth 30 minutes
DETOUR at Kho Andeth 30 minutes
Same boat back to land near Angkor Wat 20 minutes
Tuk Tuk to Angkor Wat, inlcuding entry formalities 15 minutes
Find the Echo Chamber 30 minutes
Transportation to Bayon Temple and find pitstop 15 minutes
Fudge Factor needed to balance underestimatesof tasks 60 minutes
GRAND TOTAL 275 minutes, or 4 hours 35 minutes
That translates as follows:
Nick/Starr - ran a near-perfect leg and finished around 1135am
Toni/Dallas - ran a fine leg and finished around 1140am
Terence/Sarah - had bad luck with the boat and lost 15 minutes as a result; finished around 1155am before the half-hour speeding penalty
Ken/Tina - were near the front of the pack until Tina had trouble finding the Echo Chamber; finished maybe 1200pm
Kelly/Christy - were burned by from airport taxi driver not knowing the location; finished maybe 1205pm
Anthony/Dan - screwed up big time on not knowing how to operated the gas pump when no other team had trouble, but made up some time finding the Echo chamber; finished maybe 1215pm.
Decent flight alternatives are:
PG904 REP BKK 0950 1045 connecting to IC854 BKK DEL 1330 1615
It looks like the alternate flight connection for any lagging teams(of which none are seriously so) is:
PG906 1250 1400 REP BKK connecting to TG315 1745 2045 BKK DEL
It looks like there is an extended pitstop of at least 24 hours. Since there are no flights between 850pm and 950am, it is logical to rule out either a 12 or 36 hour pitstop. So teams will be released late evening and have a long time to wait until Siem Reap Airport will be open for morning arrivals. It looks to me that all teams will be on the best flight combination above.
