Hi everyone, my first post on this forum after having lurked for nearly three years. Before asking my question, thank you to all contributors for such a wonderful resource and having passively taught me just about everything I needed to know about the QFF programme and more on the sub-forum relating to that.
I am shortly traveling AKL-SYD-BNE with the first sector on LAN and the second on QF. As I understand it from reading various posts here I will be able to have my baggage checked all the way through to BNE from AKL as both LAN and QF are OW members.
The timing of my travel is slightly unusual in that I deliberately have a fairly long layover in SYD as I would like to leave the airport and go into the city for a few hours between flights to sort a few things out, but I don't want to lug my baggage around or (ideally) use a baggage storage outfit. My question is, is there any reason why I can't just check it through at AKL and clear customs at SYD and be on my merry way and then return to the domestic terminal and board the flight in the knowledge that my baggage should be on there?
I am guessing that I would need to get the boarding passes for both flights at AKL.
Am I missing anything, or is it all that simple?
Any thoughts would be very much appreciated.
I am shortly traveling AKL-SYD-BNE with the first sector on LAN and the second on QF. As I understand it from reading various posts here I will be able to have my baggage checked all the way through to BNE from AKL as both LAN and QF are OW members.
The timing of my travel is slightly unusual in that I deliberately have a fairly long layover in SYD as I would like to leave the airport and go into the city for a few hours between flights to sort a few things out, but I don't want to lug my baggage around or (ideally) use a baggage storage outfit. My question is, is there any reason why I can't just check it through at AKL and clear customs at SYD and be on my merry way and then return to the domestic terminal and board the flight in the knowledge that my baggage should be on there?
I am guessing that I would need to get the boarding passes for both flights at AKL.
Am I missing anything, or is it all that simple?
Any thoughts would be very much appreciated.