Originally Posted by
pauldb
Oops, I got mixed up - I'm actually arriving on CA from PEK. But I doubt that's any better.
If I were to go for it, is it complicated. I guess I go up through transfer security as any transferring passenger, but how do I get back down to arrivals. Do you mean transit security will give me a hard time, or arrivals customs - how will they know what I've done?
You request that you want to exit departures; you can do this with the lounge staff (the easiest) or by contacting security. They will phone immigration and customs who will send an AFP (federal police) officer to escort you down to arrivals and to be processed. You will be well known to customs when you arrive. Transit security has nothing to do with this, other than stopping you from going from departures back to arrivals. At least this was the procedure the one and only time that I have done this, a few years ago.