Landside arrival to Virgin (and Jetstar?) after rail

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I guess due to building works at Sydney Airport but my arrival on the train this morning to Virgin was rather coughbersome.

After an escalator from the platform up to ground level, directed right along the baggage carousel area to the far end and then a single long line of pax waiting to go through a single scanning machine (modern type) and then up the escalator to the airside food court area between the Virgin and Jetstar piers. There was a Jetstar bag drop before security but I didn’t see a Virgin one. They might have been a sign to go upstairs to check in, but I didn’t see it.

As luck would have it, right in front of me was a tour group of international travellers who it seems had never gone through airport security in their lives. Plus the scanner thing was giving false positives to just about every second passenger. 😡 Including me, who apparently had something concealed under his cotton shirt on his shoulder.
 
I've used that downstairs security screening many times, but never with luggage to check in. I'm surprised you were "directed" there, but that terminal is such a scmhozzle at the moment that you're not the first person I've heard from who's been given incorrect directions by staff.

I'm not sure that the downstairs screenng is a timesaver any more, now that the new screening is in place upstairs. Or are you saying that this morning the entire upstairs (departure level) screening zone was out of action?
 
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