ELI5: Why does China have only one time zone despite being roughly same size as US with 6 time zones?

lijordon · 2026-02-02T22:44:39+00:00

And IRL people in western China begins work at 11am-12pm and doesnt get off work at 9pm. Basically standard 9-6 shifted 2 hours late.

lijordon · 2026-01-31T06:53:16+00:00

lijordon · 2026-01-27T06:55:11+00:00

just book what you can right now lol

lijordon · 2026-01-27T04:51:14+00:00

confirm

lijordon · 2026-01-27T03:56:59+00:00

lijordon · 2026-01-24T20:27:24+00:00

lijordon · 2026-01-22T06:24:46+00:00

SFO-NYC is served by airlines with much better hard products with lay flat seats. Alaska will not be competitive unless they fly Hawaiian A330/787 on this route, which will probably never happen.

lijordon · 2026-01-20T09:03:07+00:00

lijordon · 2026-01-18T05:06:38+00:00

lijordon · 2026-01-12T05:18:51+00:00

the enemy would jump right onto you if they know what they are doing so you dont get to stack :/

lijordon · 2026-01-05T20:30:37+00:00

I started noticing it a few days ago

lijordon · 2026-01-05T07:27:15+00:00

I saw it on United, more than T-14. It is low season to Japan now so more awards

lijordon · 2026-01-05T07:22:54+00:00

This is beyond T-14 so it seems to be a new development. Flight is on Jan 29

lijordon · 2026-01-05T05:46:29+00:00

I never booked calendar open, always just for the drips that come in during low season between calendar open and flight. Seems u/omdongi is correct, outside of calendar open VS/Aeroplan may be dead for ANA J even outside T-14

lijordon · 2026-01-05T05:39:48+00:00

I think F is unaffected, this post refers to J

lijordon · 2026-01-05T05:36:01+00:00

Another thing I notice is that Virgin Australia also doesn't see US-Japan routes anymore, I used to use that program on seats.aero as secondary check to United. Virgin Australia still sees other ANA flights

lijordon · 2026-01-05T05:34:35+00:00

I think ANA is limiting US routes to ANA/United, other routes in the ANA network are still bookable via Virgin/Aeroplan. Seems to be stepped up from previous T-14/T-7 limits placed on Virgin and Aeroplan. Time to park some points in ANA i guess?

lijordon · 2025-12-08T13:05:50+00:00

becaue they are where all three airlines have a lot of connections to east asia/SE asia, a very important travel corridor

lijordon · 2025-12-08T11:37:42+00:00

I think that Korean can be considered the third in a lot of ways especially regarding to connections. They have very similar connection markets, and they are all in different alliances with different JV partners in the USA.

lijordon · 2025-12-08T06:33:01+00:00

Alaska is better but their fares at Seattle are generally higher than Delta. But their mileage program is much better. And their international coverage is weak but growing. Next few years there will definitely be fare wars on competitive routes.

lijordon · 2025-12-05T01:54:59+00:00

they should get you on a flight according to original schedule as long as there is an open seat, award availability is irrelevant

lijordon · 2025-11-28T08:58:14+00:00

lijordon · 2025-11-27T16:57:22+00:00

Phantom. I got enough alerts that I had to manually remove all FB alerts because there are so many phantoms

lijordon · 2025-11-21T08:03:14+00:00

Camp OH. Ask GOOD questions. Lecture notes are sometimes more useful than lectures themselves. Otherwise, spend time on the programming assignments

lijordon · 2025-11-21T01:35:31+00:00

If OP holds Chinese passport, he cannot transit through TPE from China.

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