How early can you bag drop? Syd domestic

[baggyred]

Have a flight from Syd to Perth in J in a few weeks.

I arrive into Sydney on the train from out of town about 11am and my flights isn't until 7.45pm that evening.

Am I going to be able to use the automated bag drop that early? With liquids etc - I don't particularly want to have to clear security with my main bag.

I rang Qantas and wasn't exactly confident in their answer. The Qantas support person was simply looking up the website for the answer (which i had already done).

The web talks about check in opening 3 hours before - but I will have already checked in on my mobile and simply want to bag drop.

Anyone have experience with this?

 

[JohnK]

If your flight is open then you should be able to use the automated bag drop. Worse case and you go to the bag drop queue.

I do vaguely recall someone mentioned you can use the check in kiosks around 6 hours before flight so that limitation may be there for the automated bag drop too.

 

[TheInsider]

Bag drop for domestic flight opens around 7-6.5hrs before the scheduled departure.

 

[lathiat]

When I did this recently I had to use a check in counter - couldn't use the kiosk until I think 3 (maybe 4) hours before the flight. A quick google suggests there are varied answers for bag drop.. some say 6-7 hours like the previous poster. I think I checked in about 5-6 hours early m yself.

One answer on Facebook claims "Same day" which the official qantas reply then agreed to.. so that's a good sign it may be correct (new user so can't post the link, probably not hard to google though)

 

[codash1099]

When I did this recently I had to use a check in counter - couldn't use the kiosk until I think 3 (maybe 4) hours before the flight. A quick google suggests there are varied answers for bag drop.. some say 6-7 hours like the previous poster. I think I checked in about 5-6 hours early m yself.

One answer on Facebook claims "Same day" which the official qantas reply then agreed to.. so that's a good sign it may be correct (new user so can't post the link, probably not hard to google though)

Welcome to AFF, lathiat. Great to see a first post that provides some information. You'll find a lot of that here.

Perhaps you could introduce yourself more formally in the Introductions thread.