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The newlyweds roll into the airport and play dumb about finding their earlier flight and let Joey & Meghan just wait around for their chosen airline gate to open. Cape Fear keeps it cool and just begin wandering around the airport like they are just killing time but they are in fact looking for a counter that will sell them their earlier tickets.

With the arrival of the brothers and the moms, all the teams are waiting for the Lufthansa agents to open the counter at 5 a.m. With Team YouTube at the first agent, they confirm that the airline’s first arrival in Scotland is 1 p.m. and they snatch those tickets up. The mothers have foregone waiting in the regular line and scoot one over to the first class counter to get assistance there. It’s a smart idea because they just can’t buy first class tickets but can still use that agent. They get the last tickets on the 1 p.m. flight. The others are resigned to the fact that the 4 p.m. arrival time is the next possibility and Caroline gives them permission to "do their happy dance."

As the moms and Team YouTube skip off down the hallway, the other teams visit other airlines to locate an earlier flight. Lo and behold, they ALL secure seats on the 10:40 a.m. arriving flight that Cape Fear spotted earlier. So in a matter of minutes, they went from being three hours behind to being two and a half hours ahead.

As the flight preps to leave at 6:45 a.m., Max & Katie are less than thrilled to see the blondes and brothers get on board. At this point, the distance would’ve been welcomed but they should at least appreciate the fact that there are still two teams two plus hours behind them.

Speaking of them, Meghan grins and tells us that they are on the first flight (to Joey’s credit he adds “We hope!”) and Beth explains that sticking together as an alliance until the final three was the plan since the beginning. They appear to have no sense of urgency or worry. If that persists, then they will both fall way behind time-wise and the cold reality of a double U-Turn is going to blow their minds.

The first batch arrives and rejoices in seeing that the other two teams just went with the flight for which they initially got tickets. I wonder if Joey & Meghan or Mona & Beth will notice that their cars are the only ones left when they land. Bates divulges their plan to U-Turn both of them and let them battle it out.

Friendly Amazing Race tip for future teams: Before leaving for the start of the Race, learn to drive a manual transmission car and remember that manuals have parking brakes that when engaged make it difficult to drive. I’m sorry that I never explained that before, which must be why Caroline was driving down the Scottish freeway with the parking brake on.

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