Originally Posted by
Xiaotung
I can't really understand. UK citizens (unless he is not travelling with a UK passport) can enter Australia visa free, transit or not. Something is not right here.
I assume you mean "can't enter..."
but the URL you gave says:
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Categories of eligible travellers
The following categories of travellers are eligible to transit through Australia without applying for a visa:
... Citizens of the following countries: ... United Kingdom (including its colonies),...
Criteria
Eligible travellers must be able to meet the following criteria to be permitted to transit Australia without applying for a visa. Travellers must:
enter Australia by aircraft
hold a confirmed onward booking to leave Australia to travel to a third country on the same or another aircraft within 8 hours of arrival in Australia
hold documentation necessary to enter the country of destination
and
not need to leave the airport transit lounge except to continue their journey.
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so citizens of UK (and a number of other countries) can transit visa free. He broke the last rule though because we forgot about the luggage issue as a separate ticket and no interlining (though AI didn't actually say this was the reason -- I think their computer is more knowledable than the agents at BHX ;-)