QF enforcing 3 hour checkin time limit at MEL?

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Madrid gave us 4 hours for international on EK.
 
But it's all fake news anyway - people connecting from other ports on the same flight are checked-in - their bags are sitting somewhere. Why can't mine join them?

Ask MEL Airport. They are the ones enforcing the restriction, not the airlines. Apparently there's limited space to store checked luggage...
 
Ask MEL Airport. They are the ones enforcing the restriction, not the airlines. Apparently there's limited space to store checked luggage...
Well maybe if they spent less on building carparks and more on their core business of "running an airport"..... oh wow can't believe I said that!

Will I get banned permanently for speaking ill of MEL?
 
Well maybe if they spent less on building carparks and more on their core business of "running an airport"..... oh wow can't believe I said that!

Will I get banned permanently for speaking ill of MEL?
We have to remember the airport leases have all been handed over to property developers who just happen to have invested in land which has an airport on it.
They are more concerned about squeezing another DFO in somewhere than they are about airport operations.
 
We have to remember the airport leases have all been handed over to property developers who just happen to have invested in land which has an airport on it.
They are more concerned about squeezing another DFO in somewhere than they are about airport operations.
Yeah yeah I know... doesn't make me feel any better though :-(
 
MEL must need space for baggage intenational connections. Arrive at 6 am, left at 10 am and bags transferred automatically. Does MEL apply it for people with international connections? When travelling domestic to Sydney for an international flight with a 6 hour Sydney stopover ( i hadmeetings before the international flight), I was advised that I may have to collect my bags in Sydney as Sydney may not like to keep my bags for such a long time, however the bags wre checked through. Was that a close call?
 
MEL must need space for baggage intenational connections. Arrive at 6 am, left at 10 am and bags transferred automatically. Does MEL apply it for people with international connections? When travelling domestic to Sydney for an international flight with a 6 hour Sydney stopover ( i hadmeetings before the international flight), I was advised that I may have to collect my bags in Sydney as Sydney may not like to keep my bags for such a long time, however the bags wre checked through. Was that a close call?
No in SYD it should be fine as long as your international flight is leaving the same day.
They won't hold baggage overnight, regardless of the actual duration of the hold.
So PAX from PER arriving close to 23:00 will have to collect bags and check in again for a flight at 05:00 the next morning - 6 hours later.
Whereas PAX arriving at 05:00 with an international connection leaving at 23:00 can be through-checked, for a transit of 18 hours.
 
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