Originally Posted by crwilkins Flew to and from SYD/LA 3 times over the past 6 weeks and chose the VA/DL option as I was connecting on to Minneapolis. On every occasion the VA1 and VA2 flights were delayed, flying yesterday on VA1 it was delayed 2-1/2 hours missing my DL connection in LA. It app...

Not sure if it's new (seems to be since my last trip a month ago) but all passports with a chip can now leave HK at terminal 1 using smart gates similar to what's in Australia. was the same leaving HK to Macau (wasn't signed as being for visitors but was directed there by customs and it worked no...