Originally Posted by
robr
SYD>MEL Dec 1 flexible times
MEL>SYD Dec 9 in early am (SYD>DFW flight leaves at 1130)
For 4 people.
Dec 9 is a Friday. The early morning flights are always busy and more expensive. QF are (now) unlikely to through check your checked baggage. So you have to reclaim and make your own way landside to T1 international. Look here
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ocean...nnections.html
For a 11:30 USA flight I would be flying to SYD the night before. Take a ~18:30 flight and stay at an airport hotel (there are not many)