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Old May 15, 2022, 7:15 pm
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Originally Posted by prestonh
interesting. both Syd airport and Virgin AU website list the Virgin AU transfer desk at T1.
Looks like this was re-added in the past few weeks.

web.archive.org has a copy of the VA page from April 27, and whilst it doesn't display it properly if you look at the page source it shows the old instructions of taking your bags to the T-bus and then re-checking them in Terminal 2 (domestic).

So sometime between April 27 and today they must have re-opened the transfer desk at the international terminal.

They haven't restarted their own bus, but honestly I wouldn't be surprised if they never do. When they first started running that bus there was no free bus between terminals. Now there is, I could see them considering that as a viable answer - although it's annoying as it's literally at the opposite end of the International terminal as their transfer area.
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