A very technical question about operational information loaded onto the GDS, please.
When a flight is cancelled, a time is given for the cancellation, like this for example:-
Code:
DOBA1307/05JUL
* OPERATIONAL FLIGHT INFO * BA1307 -1 TH 05JUL18
CITY INFO HOUR (LOCAL)
ABZ NEXT INFO WILL BE AT 1200
ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE 0930
LEFT THE GATE 1054
AIRCRAFT RETURNING TO RAMP 1130
FLIGHT CANCELLED 0013
TECY
ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL 1252 LHR
Does anyone know which time zone is involved here? I had a recent cancellation of a LCY-AMS which took place just before 2.30 pm BST, and was listed as 0818 - suggesting that the time zone involved was either 6 hours behind London or UTC-5.
However the cancellation in the example above may have taken place at about 1913L or 1813Z (see
here). So far as time zones are concerned, that would be inconsistent with what I experienced a few weeks back.
Does anyone know? It's not just out of academic interest, because sometimes the reasonableness of what the passenger does or could do might depend on how much notice they'd had of the cancellation and therefore when it took place.