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LHR/MEL/Europe FF
I'm not entirely sure the two scenarios are the same? The 'last flight from Taipei' arrives something like 2330. I wonder if that is considered differently to an arrival in the afternoon?
FWIW, I’ve arrived on CX776 from CGK which arrives around 8 pm, and was admitted by virtue of a departing boarding pass on CX257 the next day. Don’t ask me why I had that itinerary but I did. Spent around 5 hours on the steel benches near the ichiban shop.