Transit in Perth International Airport!!.
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After the slight setback in Sydney this morning got into PER airport on time at 11:35am. Transfer bus was waiting so got to the international terminal just after 12:00noon.
You wouldn't believe it! The next flight does not leave until 15:30 so customs is closed until 2 hours before departure. What!
Sit at a bar and have a couple of beers to kill the time and I am the first waiting in line when customs finally opens. Fly through customs and get to the QP.
You wouldn't believe it! It does not open until 1 1/2 hours before departure. Considering that boarding opens 1 hour prior to departure then that leaves a grand total of 1/2 an hour in QP for a 4 hour transit. The staff seeing that there was a lot of people waiting to get inside, opened the QP about 15 minutes early.
While I am having a nice old whinge today there are only 2 PCs in the QP. In future I think I will have to reassess transits through PER International airport and see if I can get extra SCs another way.
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Mirrors mine and SWMBO's experience last January. Check-in opened 2.5 hours before the flight, customs 2 hours before and QP had the 1.5 hour sign (but did open ~1:50 before the flight).
I called the PER QP - They close during the day 'for cleaning' and as you said only open 90 minutes before departure.
In this regard, the info on the QF website is COMPLETELY misleading - it states "90 minutes before first departure to last departure" for the Perth International QP. Since there's an 11.25am departure, you'd expect it to be open from about 10am until the 8.40pm departure.
Time to revise our plans for tomorrow... I guess we won't be at the airport early after all.
Me too for all of the above whinges, plus this extra one - having to queue up at the service counter for a ticket for the bus to the other terminal instead of just being able to swipe a boarding pass like at SYD. Particularly annoying when the service counter is under-staffed and is dealing with complicated itinerary changes for other passengers.
....plus this extra one - having to queue up at the service counter for a ticket for the bus to the other terminal instead of just being able to swipe a boarding pass like at SYD.
Yes I forgot about that one. Waited well over 5 minutes to collect the bus ticket and then no one to ask for handover.
I did another 2 PCs scattered around the place somewhere, so in total 4 PCs.
While I am having a nice old whinge today there are only 2 PCs in the QP. In future I think I will have to reassess transits through PER International airport and see if I can get extra SCs another way.
JohnK, I think you will find there are 4 PC's, 2 on the rhs of the lounge past the food area, 1 immediately to the left of the fridges, and 1 in the far left hand corner.
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Yes I forgot about that one. Waited well over 5 minutes to collect the bus ticket and then no one to ask for handover.
I did another 2 PCs scattered around the place somewhere, so in total 4 PCs.
Oh I see you found them.
I have to say, I live in Perth, thus luckily never have to transfer between terminals. But the whole shutting down the customs and the lounge for "cleaning" is ridiculous.
QF77 Singapore 11:25
QF71 Singapore 15:30
QF139 Jakarta 20:40
So barring delays, contracted flights with other carriers using the lounge, etc., the QP should be open from ~09:55am-10:55am, ~2:00pm-3:00pm & ~7:10pm-8:10pm.
Last year flying NZ out of PER our flight was significantly delayed - instead of evening departure it became early am departure. Pax put up in hotels in PER (since delay known to be significant) and bussed back to airport. You guessed it - immigration was closed when we arrived back at terminal (along with most everything else). Immigration staff were there, just refused to open up for departures
Last year flying NZ out of PER our flight was significantly delayed - instead of evening departure it became early am departure. Pax put up in hotels in PER (since delay known to be significant) and bussed back to airport. You guessed it - immigration was closed when we arrived back at terminal (along with most everything else). Immigration staff were there, just refused to open up for departures
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