Explain these flight times for 10 points.?

Question

I'm on Ultimate Fares and I'm trying to book a flight from Cairo to Tananarive.

Click the link here to see what I see:

Look at Flight 187. How comes it leaves Mauritius at 11:10 AM and arrives in Tananarive at 10:55 AM ?

That would make the flight almost 24 hours long and that can't be possible because an airplane can't hold so much fuel.

Answer 1

Heh heh.

Answer 2

You're flying back across time zones and landing where it is an earlier tim zone than when you left. If you left Mauritius at 11:10 and the flight was 1:45, you would be landing at 12:55 if you landed in the same time zone, however as you move west into a new time zone that changes and now you are landing a 10:55 Tananarive time (12:55 Mauritius time)

Answer 3

Madagascar is two time zones (GMT+3 - DST not observed) behind Mauritius (GMT + 4 winter, GMT+5 Summer).

You are flying for a total of 1 hour 45 minutes - they are both islands off the African coast... It will not take 24 hours, but instead less than 2.

Hope this makes sense.