To make sure you don’t confuse the OP, their bags cannot be through checked on arrival into Australia. They will still need to collect them and clear customs and check them back in. Refer to Serg’s commentIf the person was flying out of Australia or transiting that’s different, ...

You will need to collect you bags in Sydney - clear customs and then check them back in for your flight to Perth. Checking your bags back in can be done at the domestic transfer desk in the international terminal - then just catch the transfer bus across to T3. This would be the same pro...

Qantas airside bus if your bag is already checked through.

I flew them last month. I think we got to check-in about 3.5 hours ahead of our flight and the desks were open with no-wait. Not sure if that’s standard (I forgot to ask) but I would not expect the desks to be staffed much earlier for BA’s one flight per day. I’d say we’re...

Last time I checked baggage with Virgin (in April) the ground staff specifically asked if it was okay to check-in both bags under my name, otherwise only one bag would have been tagged as priority. I am only relativity recently gold with VA so unclear if this is a new thing or not. However I do n...