Qantas Club Darwin - available in International Transit?

[SIA1A]

I will be transiting in Darwin in a few weeks time. I understand that my flight leaves from my capital city's International terminal, stops in Darwin for a couple of hours (where I might change planes) then proceeds overseas.

I will presumably be confined to the international transit lounge while in Darwin because I will have completed immigration formalities before arriving there.

Is there a Qantas Club airside at the Darwin International terminal?

 

[Mal]

Nope. The domestic and Int terminals are one and the same. Passport control is through a corridor into smallish waiting area with a duty free store and I think a coffee place.

Qantas club is outside the corridor in the domestic section.

 

[luckydog]

I travelled Sydney to Mumbai twice last year.
Each time we a technical stop in Darwin to refuel.
We were ushered into the lounge Mal mentions which had 3 things:
a) duty free store
b) tourist refund desk (to get back your GST)
c) small coffee shop selling drinks and snacks (but no hot chips).

There were also smoking lounges, which were sadly the only way you could get 'fresh' air.

 

[BiziBB]

Bump...

Silly me, booking a JQ sale to KUL earlier this year.
As you know, the 'reaccommodation' flight is SYD-DRW-SIN-KUL and back, but the toughest part is that 4 hour DRW transit ~4.40AM-8.40AM.

For returning Aussies, what are our chances of being able to exit the Intl terminal and re-enter Dom just before 5AM?

I imagine we are going to have no option but sleep in the corridor mentioned above.

I really wish we had some competition on SYD-Asia flights like you do in MEL, BNE and PER.

Has anyone had the 'experience' of a very early SIN-DRW arrival and 4hr stop around 5AM in DaRWin?

Thanks.

 

[gibspmuh]

My understanding of the Jetstar flights hubbing through Darwin is that Immigration and Customs are cleared in Darwin and then the flights continue on from the Domestic side of the terminal to the domestic terminals in the various other cities (as opposed to the QF flights that transit through DRW, which remain international all the way through).

So on the plus side, that gives you the opportunity to hit the QP if you have membership, or at least indulge in the few extra options available outside the international transit lounge.

 

[NM]

My understanding of the Jetstar flights hubbing through Darwin is that Immigration and Customs are cleared in Darwin and then the flights continue on from the Domestic side of the terminal to the domestic terminals in the various other cities (as opposed to the QF flights that transit through DRW, which remain international all the way through).

So on the plus side, that gives you the opportunity to hit the QP if you have membership, or at least indulge in the few extra options available outside the international transit lounge.

I don't believe QF has any international flights that "transit" Darwin any more. Since they moved the new A330-200 aircraft onto the QF123/124 SYD-BOM-SYD route, there is no longer a need to transit DRW. I am not aware of any QF flights that do it.

 

[BiziBB]

My understanding of the Jetstar flights hubbing through Darwin is that Immigration and Customs are cleared in Darwin and then the flights continue on from the Domestic side of the terminal to the domestic terminals in the various other cities...

So on the plus side, that gives you the opportunity to hit the QP if you have membership, or at least indulge in the few extra options available outside the international transit lounge.

Thanks, Gibspmuh!
Given there are a couple of flights into DRW and ours is the earlier one, I wonder if it's possible to arrange to change to the later DRW-SYD flight, so we can spend a bit of time in Darwin instead of the airport (and not have to rush back).

We're on JetFlex tix SIN-DRW-SYD as a result fo the reaccommodation fare, but whether we can make DRW into a <24hr stop (4-> 6 or 8hr stop) I don't know.

There's hope, anyway!

 

[SIA1A]

My understanding of the Jetstar flights hubbing through Darwin is that Immigration and Customs are cleared in Darwin and then the flights continue on from the Domestic side of the terminal to the domestic terminals in the various other cities (as opposed to the QF flights that transit through DRW, which remain international all the way through).

So on the plus side, that gives you the opportunity to hit the QP if you have membership, or at least indulge in the few extra options available outside the international transit lounge.

According the JQ website, the flights I am looking at taking depart my state capital from the international terminal and return to my state capital at the international terminal. This suggests that immigration and customs is not done in Darwin, at least for the flights that I am considering, hence I will be spending a couple of hours in some wretched mosquito-ridden holding bay on the wrong side of the immigration barrier while transiting at Darwin.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

According the JQ website, the flights I am looking at taking depart my state capital from the international terminal and return to my state capital at the international terminal. This suggests that immigration and customs is not done in Darwin, at least for the flights that I am considering, hence I will be spending a couple of hours in some wretched mosquito-ridden holding bay on the wrong side of the immigration barrier while transiting at Darwin.

In the absence of any specific details of what city you are flying out of, the only through international flights where you transit airside in DRW are JQ57 CNS/SIN and JQ58 SIN/CNS. Customs formalities on both of these flights are done in CNS.

I'm guessing that if you are departing from your state capital that you're not talking about CNS which means you will be clearing both outbound and inbound customs in DRW.

As for the mosquito-ridden holding bay??? You clearly have never been to DRW before. In the 8 years I've lived here I don't think I've even encountered a single mosquito either inside or outside the airport terminal. Now Charles Darwin National Park at sunset is a different matter.....

If insects aren't your think don't go anywhere near Alice Springs Airport for goodness sake, unless you like flies a lot that is. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

[MelUser]

There is no need to be rude about Darwin.

As per Adelaide, there is one Qantas Club in the combo domestic/international terminal and it is available for eligible passengers before they go through passport control.

 

[bigmal]

Straight from the JQ website

• Melbourne: operates from 2 airports - the Qantas Domestic Terminal at Tullamarine and Avalon Airport - EXCEPT for JQ3 and JQ30 Melbourne to Sydney, operating from Melbourne Tullamarine Terminal 2 International
• Sydney: operates from Terminal 2 - EXCEPT for JQ29 & JQ 35 Sydney to Melbourne & JQ 19 Sydney to Gold Coast operating from International Terminal 1
• Cairns: operates from the Domestic Terminal - EXCEPT for JQ57 Cairns to Darwin operating from the International Terminal
• Gold Coast (Coolangatta): operates from the Domestic Terminal - EXCEPT for JQ20 - Gold Coast to Sydney, operating from the International Terminal
• Darwin: operate out of the domestic terminal - EXCEPT for JQ58 Darwin to Cairns operating from the International Terminal.

Jetstar International flights operate from the following terminals with the following exceptions:

• Brisbane: operates from the international terminal - EXCEPT for JQ81 between Brisbane and Denpasar via Darwin which operates from the Brisbane domestic terminal
• Gold Coast: operates from Terminal 1 Domestic
• Melbourne: operates from terminal 2 - EXCEPT for JQ61 between Melbourne and Singapore via Darwin which operates from the Qantas domestic terminal
• Sydney: operates from terminal 1 - EXCEPT for JQ73 between Sydney and Ho Chi Minh City via Darwin which operates from terminal 2
• Cairns: operates from the international terminal

 

[WA flyer]

If insects aren't your think don't go anywhere near Alice Springs Airport for goodness sake, unless you like flies a lot that is. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I'm passing through Darwin from MCHC in a couple of weeks, would I be to clear Customs in time to make a Perth flight 1 1/4 hr later to avoid a long wait for the next flight?