I've just received an email saying my flight from DOH to HKG has been re-timed and will be departing 50 minutes later than originally scheduled.
Bizarrely however the arrival time at Hong Kong has not been changed, so the flight time is now shown as 7 hours 35 minutes rather than 8 hours 25 minutes.
Looking at Google Flights, this revised timing seems to continue through to May 1st, but then the flight times and durations revert to what seems to be the norm.
Looking at actual flight timings over the past few days, it looks like the scheduled departure time has been maintained, but the flight has been arriving in Hong Kong up to an hour earlier than scheduled.
No doubt this is due to the current strength of the jet stream, but I've not heard of an airline temporarily adjusting its schedule to take advantage of this effect before. Or is there something else at play?
Bizarrely however the arrival time at Hong Kong has not been changed, so the flight time is now shown as 7 hours 35 minutes rather than 8 hours 25 minutes.
Looking at Google Flights, this revised timing seems to continue through to May 1st, but then the flight times and durations revert to what seems to be the norm.
Looking at actual flight timings over the past few days, it looks like the scheduled departure time has been maintained, but the flight has been arriving in Hong Kong up to an hour earlier than scheduled.
No doubt this is due to the current strength of the jet stream, but I've not heard of an airline temporarily adjusting its schedule to take advantage of this effect before. Or is there something else at play?