I use a mobile phone app https://www.linkt.com.au/sydney/accounts-and-passes/linktgo. It works everywhere, not just Sydney. You just need to enter the car registration of your rental car. You will get an SMS telling you when you have incurred a toll. You select pay now and the toll is paid by you...

MCT is Minimum Connection Time and has no relation to actual check-in cut-off as it assumes the passenger will have already been checked in, either by automated through check or by the transfer desk. Each airline has a different time. 60 minutes should be taken as the minimum for international ch...

I find VA's upgrades are very hit and miss. I bid for an upgrade SYD/DPS using points. Never heard a thing. I enquired at check-in and also at the gate. The flight left with empty J seats. Not impressed as a Gold Member.

A decent train connection to both Tulla & Avalon would certainly help everyone. A train that rain from the Frankston line to Tullamarine would be the icing on the cake.

My experience of separate tickets and requesting baggage interlining goes back a couple of years but the blunt answer was "no". Staff are not trained to do this.  My flights were VA to VA.Considering that in the days of Ansett the staff bent over backwards to interline baggage and issue part...