Flying and Arrival Times

Airports and airline operators show times of departures and arrivals on their websites. A very useful feature of the website for Cairns International Airport are the pages showing the flying time to a number of destinations (the time it actually takes to travel to that destination).

• Click here to view this information for International or Domestic flights.

In this activity you are to prepare a report that shows the local arrival time at each of six different destinations, departing from Cairns.

• Click here to view current departure times from Cairns.

To complete this activity you will also need to know the time zone of your destination, so that allowance can be made for gaining or losing time as you travel.

For instance, the local time in Darwin is a ½ hour behind Cairns. If you leave Cairns at 11:00 a.m. to fly to Darwin (a flying time of 2 hours and 45 minutes), it will be 1:45 p.m. Cairns time when you arrive in Darwin. This will make the local Darwin time 1:15 p.m. allowing for the ½ hour difference. In 24-hour time, 1:15 p.m. is written as 13:15.

Use headings similar to these in your report. The first one is set out as an example for you to follow.

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Local Times of Arrival

Depart from	Destination	Time difference	Flying time	Local departure time and date	Local arrival time and date
Cairns	Darwin	½ hour behind Cairns	2 hrs, 45 mins	11:00, July 8	13:15, July 8

• Write two or three sentences to explain how you calculated the local arrival time.
• Show all your times as 24-hour time. This avoids confusion between a.m. and p.m.
• You should include dates to show if you arrive at your destination on the same day, the following day, or even the previous day (how might this happen?).
• Choose destinations that are in a range of different time zones.