My best friend is travelling to New Zealand with QF on Sunday. She'll be going via Sydney on the A330, then switching a/c to continue to Christchurch. On the return trip, she'll be stopping in BNE before returning to Perth. Apparently, she's been told that she'll have to collect her bag and re-check it onto the trans-Tasman flight, even though PER-SYD is supposed to be a continuous flight. Also the same again returning via BNE, having to grab her bag and check it BNE-PER as a se[arate flight.
Can anyone enlighten me as to why this is so? I've always been under the impression that she'd be put through as a continuing pax, and her bag automatically loaded onto the outbound aircraft. Seems a bit silly to risk having her not check in on time, thus missing or holding up the NZ flight while waiting for people to go get their bags!!!!
So what's the deal? Or did she just score the new person with no idea?
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