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Originally Posted by bisonrav (Post 37200054)

I'm doing the BA15 route with MasterBR, and our approach is to take a room at the Rydges Hotel at the airport from the preceding night so we can check in immediately, and then use the first day as a rest day.

Rydges do a day rate too so you can check in immediately and I think you have to be out by 4pm so plenty of time for a snooze and a shower before moving on - done it a couple of times and it's made a massive amount of difference for me

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Originally Posted by email2markt (Post 37200037)

BA and QF are morning arrivals only :(

The QF way to get an evening arrival into SYD is to fly LHR-PER-SYD.
QF10 arrives in PER around midday, making for a shorter day if you were to stopover.

If you were to continue straight through, the connecting PER-SYD flight (QF650 in southern Winter gets into SYD at 20:40 or QF652 in southern Summer gets into SYD at 22:30) arrives in the evening.
Bonus points for the option to take QF656 once a week at certain times of the year (e.g. Thursdays in November) as it's 789-operated and arrives in SYD at 21:55.

An alternative would be to fly LHR-CDG/FCO-PER-SYD, which are 789 operated all the way from CDG/FCO through to Sydney, arriving at 16:25 (southern Winter) or 18:40 (southern Summer).

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Originally Posted by seanp7 (Post 37200634)

The QR 18:45 arrival is ideal. Less immigration & customs queues. By the time you are at the hotel it’s 20:00 - with guaranteed check-in.

You can have a meal, a workout, a night stroll and go to bed at a reasonable hour and you should be on the timezone faster than the morning arrivals.

Re:A380 - the seats are still good and you have the bar area to chill and break the trip up. Normally there’s a very good cognac there too.
Dine on demand for food plus Al Mourjan/Gardens access in DOH prior. QR hands down for me - especially if direct to SYD is preferred.

Certainly makes sense for a QR evening arrival. I’ve done the QR lounges/flights once a long time ago but would be good to do this again.

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Originally Posted by V1213 (Post 37200797)

Oddly, I hadn’t even considered QF. Not sure why, but that is a good option.

if I wasn’t weirdly tied to retaining Silver, I would look at EK in First. At the moment it’s about £1500 more than the OW alternatives.

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Originally Posted by Finland Station (Post 37200056)

You won't need to. BA15 SIN-SYD is proper dinner, followed by breakfast before arrival in SYD. It's a tough flight, however, very like a US East Coast departure back to London.

That's a very good comparison. For me, it's less about the arrival time but more about the length of flight and the length of unbroken sleep. In years past I deliberately routed HKG-AKL to get a decent night's sleep and then picked up the short flight from AKL-SYD/MEL.

I would take the QR A380. It's not a Q-suite, but it is a guaranteed 1-2-1 layout with the bar/lounge upstairs.