Express Arrival Cards Australia
Dec 13, 2018, 11:26 am
#16
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Sydney
I find them useful because smartgate never works for me in Australia.
I find them useful because smartgate never works for me in Australia.
Dec 13, 2018, 10:11 pm
#17
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: BNE
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I seriously don't think some people at Air NZ who are responsible for things such as this and for writing arrival PA messages actually understand how things work inside some of the airports. The messages used for arrivals into SFO and LAX for example are simply out of date by years. Their messages about who uses kiosks and who needs to use a counter use are simply inaccurate and wrong.
Dec 14, 2018, 11:42 am
#19
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Christchurch, NZ
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Dec 14, 2018, 4:42 pm
#20
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: BNE
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Turns out apparently US passports and Air New Zealand passengers are treated the same way now.
Dec 26, 2018, 12:19 am
#22
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: BNE
Programs: NZ*G, QF Bronze, VA Red
Posts: 563
NZ135 25/12, Express Path card handed out with arrival cards for BP pax - only one of the BP cabins was half full though, the other was totally empty. Ended up not using it as BNE pax throughput was so low, you could clear passport control in 30 seconds flat without it. APEC holders dumped in regular lane.
Nov 15, 2019, 9:51 pm
#23
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 2,645
New data point 855 this morning, got one. Didn't need it as was 18mim from wheels down to landside, 10min from door open.
Not even sure where the express lanes would be at MEL arrivals.
Really wish WLG would have it for arrivals as if not at front of plane for the first flight in the wave it is a bad day.
Not even sure where the express lanes would be at MEL arrivals.
Really wish WLG would have it for arrivals as if not at front of plane for the first flight in the wave it is a bad day.
Nov 15, 2019, 11:09 pm
#24
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: New Zealand
Programs: Air NZ *E
Posts: 146
New data point 855 this morning, got one. Didn't need it as was 18mim from wheels down to landside, 10min from door open.
Not even sure where the express lanes would be at MEL arrivals.
Really wish WLG would have it for arrivals as if not at front of plane for the first flight in the wave it is a bad day.
Not even sure where the express lanes would be at MEL arrivals.
Really wish WLG would have it for arrivals as if not at front of plane for the first flight in the wave it is a bad day.
Dec 29, 2019, 9:30 pm
#25
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Auckland, NZ
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Posts: 88
The end of the Express Arrival card in Sydney
A customs agent told me today the program will be removed in Sydney. It will remain for now in Brisbane and Melbourne, but he was not aware for how long.
Dec 31, 2019, 6:19 pm
#27
Join Date: Dec 2013
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Had one last month into BNE and boy did I need it. Arrival at 08.30 and the queues were huge to get out - maybe 300. I had to fight through miles of snaking lines to get to the express path - only about 20 in that line, probably because no one could find it. It's either horrendous or empty with Aus arrivals for me.
And off topic but I'm finding the Australian sliding e-gate machines are now kinking the page near the spine (British passport) making it unreadable every time. Slap-it-on-the-reader machines in NZ work fine.
And off topic but I'm finding the Australian sliding e-gate machines are now kinking the page near the spine (British passport) making it unreadable every time. Slap-it-on-the-reader machines in NZ work fine.