Why Can't iCal Handle an Event in Two Time Zones?

If I'm entering, say, a plane trip I'm taking that takes off in one time zone and lands in another, I can't enter this properly in iCal. Interestingly, if I'm entering this event in my iPhone's version of iCal, it works. That version of iCal has the option for separate time zones on the event's beginning and end. But not on the OSX version of iCal.
It would be great if Apple would fix this. It's an annoying problem. Especially for those of us who travel a lot, it's important to enter items in LOCAL time so when we land our iCal is displaying our events correctly.
This problem has at least one fascinating bug, which is that the trip I'm taking this week from China to the U.S. will not display on my iCal on my desktop at all, because the plane takes off on Friday at 5:00 p.m. (in Shanghai) and lands on Friday at 4:05 p.m. (in Chicago). The flight itself is, of course, 12 hours long, but iCal can't seem to figure out how to display a flight that lands before it takes off, if you're just tracking it in a single time zone.
I know there are workarounds for this, but don't make me do the calculations... Since the iPhone version of iCal can handle this, the desktop version should, too.

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