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Old Oct 4, 2018 | 8:48 pm
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Originally Posted by LapLap
I was wondering this, but Japan doesn’t change the clocks. I thought China didn’t either.
Correct, neither country changes clocks. Sounds to me like MU is adding padding for ATC delays and FM isn't, for whatever reason. I don't know how integrated they run their operations. Padded schedules are very common at PVG, PEK, and HKG.
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