Anyone flown VA SYD-LAX recently?
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I flew VA SYD-LAX on Christmas Day.
We landed on time and everything was a breeze! Baggage & immigration were really quick and I think it was just over 30 minutes from landing until we were out of the terminal.
T5 is nice, although we had a fair walk from the gate to baggage collection but that was good after a 14 hour flight.
T3 coming back was not as nice (Alaska lounge is cough) so I am looking forward to them moving everything over to T5 in future.
We landed on time and everything was a breeze! Baggage & immigration were really quick and I think it was just over 30 minutes from landing until we were out of the terminal.
T5 is nice, although we had a fair walk from the gate to baggage collection but that was good after a 14 hour flight.
T3 coming back was not as nice (Alaska lounge is cough) so I am looking forward to them moving everything over to T5 in future.
Thanks for the reply!
Wow...30mins! I don't think I've ever gotten through that quick, but I'm usually way up the back in economy and one of the last off lol.
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I've got to say that the nice thing is that although there are less customs agents to process everyone, there are also many less people to process. I flew SYD-LAX a couple of days before Christmas and we were the only plane load in T5 immigration. There was a holding room where we were divided into locals and visitors and then each group was led into the processing area. It was very quick - I think the big factors that help the process go quickly is that there are generally very few issues with Australian visas and also less language barriers. I've been stuck behind a full plane load or two from non-english speaking countries several times in TBIT and it really can hold up the process.
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