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".