random832@fastmail.us said:
Yeah, but if you've got a flight that takes a set amount of time, and one of the endpoints switches zones and the other doesn't, you'd have to reschedule one of them anyway. Airlines are the one place I think it _would_ make sense to schedule everything in UTC. The only situation it wouldn't is if both endpoints make the same change (as when the whole US changed its daylight saving rules).
Do we have any airline people here who can comment?
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