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flying time plus 3 hours on the ground at Anchorage, Alaska and Shemya (Aleutian Islands) plus 8 hours time change.
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before 8 a.m. at the earliest or after 8 p.m. in the
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27 October but can, I understand, cancel your two engagements
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Leave Edinburgh or Prestwick at about midnight
27/28 October arriving in Peking at 9 a.m.
on Sunday, 29 October. Under this arrangement
you would have the first night in the 'plane
between take off and arrival in Alaska 91⁄2 hours
later. You would arrive in the Aleutian Islands
during the day and have another night in the 'plane
before arriving in Peking at 9 a.m.
Leave Edinburgh or Prestwick at 8 a.m. on Saturday,
28 October arriving in Peking at 5 p.m. on Sunday,
29 October. This would mean 2 days and one night
en route.
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