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LHR/MEL/Europe FF
I stand by that.
If you are already reading FT advice that you should spend money to get a visa you don't actually need is not the best advice available. TIMATIC is easy to read and plenty of folks able to interpret on here if needed.
If you didn't know about FT/other fora or TIMATIC then I agree the exceptions like WUH are probably a little obscure.
Timatic does not take into account special situations. Once a CX SFO checkin agent scanned my daughter's US passport and told her that her passport was expiring in three months, and to be allowed into Hong Kong, her passport would need one-month validity upon leaving Hong Kong. As my daughter still had 2.5 months when leaving HK, he could check her in. I told the checkin agent my daughter has the HKID and she would not be entering HK on US passport. The check-in agent said he only went by the system and would not check her in if the system rejected, and the system did not ask if she possessed a permanent HKID.