Originally Posted by
PAXboy
Is that shortcut with or without your checked baggage?
The shortcut is, effectively, just an alternative immigration and security channel, situated in the domestic terminal but taking you directly in to the international terminal airside departures area. So you have to have disposed of your checked baggage already.
I used it when flying DUR-JNB-LHR a few weeks back, so my bag could be directly transferred from the DUR-JNB flight to the JNB-LHR flight. All I had to do was to walk out of the domestic arrivals area (up the ramp that bypasses domestic baggage claim) and then into this shortcut.
If connecting domestic->international, you don't have to reclaim and recheck because the bag doesn't have to clear customs at JNB, unlike on an international->domestic connection.
The shortcut was brilliant. I'm still smiling when I think of it - and still grateful for the inside knowledge!
