Business or hopefully First Class to SIN - help me pick a flight?

[tania73]

Am late to this thread but EK have F from BNE-SIN. The SIN - BNE flights leaves at 3.45 pm and arrives into BNE at 12.40am so great for not mucking around your body clock. You could fly out of MEL/SYD going (or BNE in J) and then use the EK flight on the way back. Just note though, between March - October this year, flight is suspended due to BNE runway closing at 12.00am. Also, you get CD on the EK flight.

 

[RichardMEL]

Sorry, how does that differ from Melbourne?

You're right, but you don't have to wait for the bus. Since AP mentioned SYD in particular I was thinking of that scenario, but obviously applies to BNE (where transfers are just as sucky, and in fact a bit more complex since you have to exit the terminal) and MEL (but at MEL at least one can walk the 5 or so minutes from QF departures level out past (dom) security, then turn right and head over to international and again through security and immigration.

It has often perplexed me why QF/VA (and AN prior) did not manage to get airside connections working - specially at MEL, though I suspect it is a combination of feeding pax into immigration and that the respective terminals at MEL are leased, not owned.

At least with the airside BUS from AA T4->TBIT you are spared a 2nd security check even if the bus probably takes a little longer than walking the short distance between T4 and TBIT - but I digress. Of course this is possible since US has no physical outbound immigration(emmigration?) check so it is much easier. But I digress