@airportunderbelly: Why Airport Departure Boards Show Multiple Times Simultaneously and What Each One Actually Means Airport departure boards display local time and gate departure times - while pilots operate exclusively on UTC, Coordinated Universal Time, regardless of which country they're flying over. Each time answers a completely different operational question for a completely different person in the building. The board that looks potentially confusing to passengers is actually multiple precise answers displayed in the same place simultaneously. Airport departure board times UTC aviation time Pilots UTC time zone Airport clocks different times Coordinated universal time aviation Departure board explained Airport time zones #aviation #flightfacts #travel #behindthescenes #airportlife

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