QF9/10 MEL to LHR via DRW - disembark in transit?
Feb 17, 2022, 10:54 am
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QF9/10 MEL to LHR via DRW - disembark in transit?
Looking to book this flight that transits via DRW. Both legs of the flight (LHR to DRW, DRW to MEL) are the same flight number, presume the same aircraft, with a stop in DRW.
Do you stay on the plane during the stop or have to go out into the terminal? And presume if the latter, you have to bring all your carry-on off the plane, just to bring it back on?
Do you stay on the plane during the stop or have to go out into the terminal? And presume if the latter, you have to bring all your carry-on off the plane, just to bring it back on?
Feb 17, 2022, 2:57 pm
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Note there is a small lounge set up for those who are in business or have sufficient status.
Feb 25, 2022, 3:25 pm
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This gives you a pretty good idea of the process;
at 20:50 etc
In effect you get off the plane, with your hand luggage, while it is cleaned (refuled, and extra catering added), but you spend the hour in a separate sealed off part of the terminal, and then just walk up the airbridge again.
Remember that in both directions this counts as an international flight MEL-LHR and LHR-MEL and DRW is just a 'technical' stop, not a real stop.
In effect you get off the plane, with your hand luggage, while it is cleaned (refuled, and extra catering added), but you spend the hour in a separate sealed off part of the terminal, and then just walk up the airbridge again.
Remember that in both directions this counts as an international flight MEL-LHR and LHR-MEL and DRW is just a 'technical' stop, not a real stop.
Feb 25, 2022, 11:36 pm
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Feb 25, 2022, 11:45 pm
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Mar 2, 2022, 10:45 pm
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This gives you a pretty good idea of the process;
at 20:50 etc
In effect you get off the plane, with your hand luggage, while it is cleaned (refuled, and extra catering added), but you spend the hour in a separate sealed off part of the terminal, and then just walk up the airbridge again.
Remember that in both directions this counts as an international flight MEL-LHR and LHR-MEL and DRW is just a 'technical' stop, not a real stop.
In effect you get off the plane, with your hand luggage, while it is cleaned (refuled, and extra catering added), but you spend the hour in a separate sealed off part of the terminal, and then just walk up the airbridge again.
Remember that in both directions this counts as an international flight MEL-LHR and LHR-MEL and DRW is just a 'technical' stop, not a real stop.
Mar 3, 2022, 3:01 am
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How on earth do you effectively clean the plane when it’s full of pax? Especially on the east bound flight
Mar 3, 2022, 4:04 am
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Got to love the smell of jet fuel when you are a pax.
Mar 3, 2022, 5:56 am
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This isn’t correct. I have flown this flight in both directions. You do have to remove all carry on but there is definitely no immigration/ customs.
Mar 3, 2022, 1:17 pm
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It would be operated as an international flight, which means you must carry ID and go through immigration, although you would not be recorded as departing / entering Australia.
You would use the international terminals at MEL or SYD (some distance away from the domestic), and go through international security screening which means no liquids over 100ml etc (normally allowed on domestics), and I believe at DRW that means going through security twice.
Mar 7, 2022, 8:22 pm
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I just did this route last week.
- You have to get off at Darwin and then you sit in the small terminal area.
- The lounge is makeshift, but quite nice.
- No security checks or immigration. You get callled back on the plane in 45mins.
- They clean the plane and there is new cabin crew.