Originally Posted by
littlevoices
My general understanding is that an airline can't check you in on the SYD-HKG leg, even with a separate different booking, unless they can see a visa for HKG as that is for that explicit booking.
An easy override for most airlines/countries..atleast for CX,SQ,UA,AA,QR,TG in my experience (I need a visa for many countries and have flown more than a fair share of ‘funky’ cross ticket itineraries)
That said however, I recall reading posts on FT about BA being problematic on this.