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Old Jul 25, 2019 | 8:34 pm
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Originally Posted by DominicB
As a Brit now living in the USA, if BA made such announcements using the 24-hour clock, they would confuse all their US clientele. I have been amazed to see highly intelligent and educated Americans struggle to understand this way of telling the time.
Yes indeed. I remember some years back talking with a gate agent in Dallas about my 1605 flight. She was adamant there wasn't one although she knew there was one at 4:05pm!

In Aberdeen this is of course "the back of 4".
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