So the passenger arrived from Bathurst, unscreened and somehow walked around Sydney airport in the screened area before boarding the Melbourne flight, doesn't that mean the whole of Sydney T1 is now un-screened? And since when is it the passengers prerogative to exit and re-enter screened areas, how would they know the requirement, the terminal should be designed that unscreened passengers can not enter a screened area anyway. I see more issues than the fact Melbourne wanted them re-screened... More so how are passengers inbound from unscreened ports handled at that terminal.
The regular traveller, who asked to remain anonymous, said he had flown into Sydney Airport on a regional flight from Orange and explained the missed screening occurred in the transfer.
Orange Airport did not have security screening and normally passengers would be directed out of the airport once landing in Sydney, and made to come back through to be checked before boarding their next flight, he said.
In this instance, he said passengers who got off the Orange flight were allowed to proceed through the airport to their next flight without going through security.
I think this might be just adding to QFs woes if they are making mistakes where a whole plane of unscreened pax start walking around a terminal.