With a 5 1/2 hour layover I can't see what would stop them checking you through from MEL to SYD.
heya mate,
I have linked my 2 day test to my British passport and will link the UK departure one to my Aus passport. Seems ok to me
Mrs FB and I had "results within 1 hour" antigen tests on Friday. Mine came in 20 minutes, hers came in a little over 1.5 hours. There was 2 minutes difference in our sample taken time. Beware.
The test needs to be done 2 calendar days before, so you have more than 24 hours.
The day 2 PCR doesn't get 'linked' to your passport as such, its more so just a link to say that you are the person that did have that test as your passport gets checked when you do it. Of course if you use a mail test it's less important anyway. Surely when you enter Australia, if you had your pre-departure PCR test (for Aus?? It's not clear, sorry) on a different passport you could just show that if requested, or your concern the airline won't let you board if it doesn't match the one you're using to exit the country? Are you planning to use the Day 2 PCR as your pre-departure test for Aus?
So if leaving Doha Thursday bound for UK the test needs to be done Tuesday SA time. Starting flight in Adelaide departs at about 6pm Weds for Melb. Spending about 3 weeks in UK. The risk is not getting the result back by Weds night. They don't guarantee it for the $150 test but will get it back by midnight same day for the $300. Not me, but son and DIL and grandson who hasn't seen her parents in The Wirral for two years. She's getting extremely stressed so I've been charged for doing all the research.
Wow, are rapid tests really costing $150 and taking more than a few hours for results? Madness.
On the current passenger locator form page which links to your 2 day per booking (can't fill out until 2 days prior). It says you need:
The e-gates do not link the 2 together, as much as they may try to make you think that. You have no worries at all.
That's what the guidance says; but I'd be waiting to see exactly what's written in the SI, likely to be updated on Monday if last week's prompt update is anything to go by.
As another dual citizen I had the same initial reaction to that wording in the PLF instructions but on reflection I don’t interpret it as a problem for us. You will be using your UK not AU passport to leave UK: you will show it at check-in though there is usually no outbound UKBF passport check. The AU passport (and the pre-dep PCR test result linked to it) is the credential for entry to Australia and thus outside the scope of the UK PLF. Large numbers of dual citizens are passing through the UK border every day and I’ve seen no reports of problems arising from people’s test bookings and results being linked to different passports for arrival and departure. As @Flashback has commented already, you (we) have nothing to worry about.
Hmmm. As you're doing the international sectors on EK you could check with their call centre. IME when you checkin with onward sectors to another carrier the checkin agents are hypersensitive particularly since COVID in case the checkin carrier gets it wrong and the onward carrier refuses boarding. It's the international carrier's call that really counts. Often the onwards carrier checks the doco and reissues their own boarding pass even if you have one already for the onward sectors.
Having just done the trip to the UK, just stick to your AU passport. There is no benefit of using the UK one as E-gates in the UK accept an AU passport. It just adds another layer for complexity and risk to the trip. Print everything out including the receipt for the UK Day 2 tests, lost count of how many times I had to provide these.
It may work to use your AU passport to enter the UK while also holding a UK passport but UKBF doesn’t like it. I did this once by mistake and was pulled up by the immigration officer who could see on the system that I was a dual national. It’s really not that hard to manage two or more nationalities/passports, just needs a bit more care in the age of Covid.
Based on that report it is arguably less intrusive to enter VIC via NSW. Compare your experience thus far to that of andye
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