When is check in open at Sydney airport?
Jan 30, 2019, 5:20 pm
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When is check in open at Sydney airport?
Hiya
Travelling on BA16 from SYD to LHR in a few days time departing at 16.30.
Question is what time should we turn up at airport to check in? Are the BA check in gates open all day or only 3 hours before the flight?
Travelling in Club World and have a Priority Pass and AmEx so any advice on lounges or food at Sydney airport. Wasn't terribly impressed with Amex lounge there last time I visited as it was absolutely bunged (although the pancake machine was good!)
Thanks!
Travelling on BA16 from SYD to LHR in a few days time departing at 16.30.
Question is what time should we turn up at airport to check in? Are the BA check in gates open all day or only 3 hours before the flight?
Travelling in Club World and have a Priority Pass and AmEx so any advice on lounges or food at Sydney airport. Wasn't terribly impressed with Amex lounge there last time I visited as it was absolutely bunged (although the pancake machine was good!)
Thanks!
Jan 30, 2019, 9:47 pm
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There are a few restaurants listed for priority pass, some airside, some landside. They are decent enough, and the QF lounge in J is quite good.
If you want to visit multiple priority pass restaurants, they want to stamp your boarding pass and stop you from visiting multiple restaurants. But there is nothing stopping you from printing a few of your self check in boarding passes...
Jan 31, 2019, 12:38 am
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Having sat around Sydney waiting for check in to open a few times (separate tickets flying in in the morning from other cities and being quite risk averse), my experience is the check in desks open at 12:30 to 13:00. Which is earlier than they have to. So if you have anywhere better to be, then don't go to the airport too early.
The Qantas lounge has better food, imo, than the other oneworld lounges. And they have a nice bar and barista coffee. But I don't think you get access with a BA Club World ticket, I think they will point you to BA. BA lounge is fine and wines are ok.
The Qantas lounge has better food, imo, than the other oneworld lounges. And they have a nice bar and barista coffee. But I don't think you get access with a BA Club World ticket, I think they will point you to BA. BA lounge is fine and wines are ok.
Jan 31, 2019, 12:55 am
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Where is the BA lounge in SYD? And for that matter...where are the other oneworld lounges in SYD?
Jan 31, 2019, 1:06 am
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Where is the BA lounge in SYD? And for that matter...where are the other oneworld lounges in SYD?
Access by class of travel or OW Sapphire/Emerald
OW web site --->https://www.oneworld.com/ffp/lounge-...eaccess/SYD/-1
Airport web site T1 --->https://www.sydneyairport.com.au/inf...ine-lounges-t1
Edit
As 01 Feb Australian time the oneworld.com web site has been revised so now next to useless
Last edited by Mwenenzi; Jan 31, 2019 at 7:08 pm
Jan 31, 2019, 1:13 am
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Strictly speaking check in opens three hours before departure but it's usually more like 3.5. There are no early check in facilities.
Jan 31, 2019, 2:05 am
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Jan 31, 2019, 4:31 am
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There is also an Amex lounge if you have a platinum Amex. In my experience checkin is usually 3.5 hours and rarely a queue in the F or J lines.
Jan 31, 2019, 5:26 am
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QF J Lounge is ok but can be exceptionally busy, the lounge dragons are not dragons, they are quite lovely and enjoy bending the rules for families and those without status.
Food is not bad for a J lounge and wine can be good.
Through security, through duty free, head upstairs to first floor, walk past the excellent QF first lounge and in you go.
Food is not bad for a J lounge and wine can be good.
Through security, through duty free, head upstairs to first floor, walk past the excellent QF first lounge and in you go.