Originally Posted by
atcer28
We are travelling to Cancun on BA from LGW in March. The flight time out says 12 hours on MMB but 11 hours when I click on the flight for more info. The general blurb on BA.com says 8.5 hours and coming back MMB says 8 hours then 9 hours under more info.
Originally Posted by
atcer28
I have now checked and Cancun changed to central mexico time on 1st Feb 15 meaning it is 6 hours behind the UK. This means unless the take off and landing time are totally wrong ( I know they always overestimate a bit) the actual times are:
LGW-CUN deps 0705 cancun time lands at 1905 therefore 12 hours
return CUN deps at 2050 cancun time lands at 0455 cancun time which makes it 8 hours.
You're looking at flights on Saturdays, right?
Looking at ExpertFlyer, the scheduled LGW-CUN times are 1305-1905, and the CUN-LGW times are 2050-1055.
More than one source gives the current time in Cancun as GMT-
5 hours - see
timeanddate.com,
24timezones.com,
worldtimezone.com and
worldtimeserver.com. (So whatever was quoting GMT-6 hours may be wrong.)
As there are no scheduled daylight saving time changes between now and the last Saturday in March, that means that the Cancun times for the flights are 0805-1905 (11:00 duration) and 2050-0555 (9:05 duration). These are the durations given by ExpertFlyer, too. That's consistent with what MMB tells you when you drill down (which I think draws information from the GDS like EF does). So the only thing wrong on MMB is the superficial first glance information, which I suspect may suffer from a similar "sticky" problem to the "sticky" problem with aircraft type when there's been an aircraft change.
FWIW, the current scheduled durations to MEX are 11:40 and 10:00, so what you see there for CUN isn't inconsistent.