Originally Posted by
cavemanzk
Australian Customs doesn't accept digital board passes, for any airline ex Australia.
Think comes down to an outdated law in Australia, that prevents the use of an cellphone in an customs controlled area.
It becomes rather annoying when at all other NZ ports, you can use your mobile board passes at every stage upto boarding.
Ah, interesting
cavemanzk! This is the kind of background that I love learning about. I guess it makes sense. UA made some extensive announcements about not using cellphones in the customs processing area, but I don't think the staff had time to pay attention.
As another note, I couldn't get boarding passes for AKL-[NZ]-NRT-[NH]-SEA either. But I'm sure there's a different reasoning for that.
Great report!
But BTW there is also a SQ lounge at SYD airport, so *A travelers have 2 lounges to choose from (or they can use both
).
I just dropped down to UA Silver so unfortunately no *A Gold for me. The Silverkris lounge and Air NZ lounge are literally right next to each other so I'm sure if you had the time (or were curious
) you could check out both. Good tip
TPJ.
Wow, incredible report so far. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks
757!