Perth Airport

✅ Trip Verified | We travelled overseas and was returning from Philippines. We are residents here! We are law abiding citizens and the way that the arrogance is flaunted in our face when providing our passport and coming thru immigration is nothing short of disgusting behaviour! This behaviour needs to be culled!

✅ Trip Verified | 1) need to vet the security screening personnel, very rude and abrupt. Cannot understand what some are saying 2) can only use a card in the international departures. And to top it off they then hit you with a card fee for purchases and on public holidays throw a hefty surcharge on top of the bill. 3) went to JB Hifi duty free and bought a JBL speaker, check on internet and the price was $15 dearer than Myer normal price. Management and the government should be aware that Perth Airport is the first and last place international tourists see of our country and from what I hear overseas I. My regular trips is that the reviews are not that good

Not Verified | My biggest complaint is the actual building design. I cannot believe how poor the design is, whoever the architect was they had no foresight to the future. How can you build an airport when arriving and departing passengers are exposed to the weather, particularly in winter. If you are being dropped off or picked up you have no protection from the elements, if it is raining you will get wet entering or leaving the drop off points or trying to get or being dropped off. It is an unbelievably poor design. The whole building needs demolishing and a 2 story building built, the upper level for departing passengers and the ground level for arrivals, whilst all under cover for pick up and drop off points. The car park should be a under cover multi story. It is time Perth Airport actually built a modern and feasable airport that will look to the future, not just the next 5 years. Wake up Perth.

✅ Trip Verified | Again, very long lines and delays due to the inefficient way passengers are jockeyed through border control. Seems that there are never enough staff working. Was told by one member of staff that I didn't have to remove my belt and watch, only to be re scanned for the same thing by another staff member not even five metres away. Scanned for explosives AGAIN, even though I work for an airline! They claim that they don't profile, but they must do. I want to formalise a complaint, but not possible to find out who is in charge.

Not Verified | The worst airport especially the security screening through the virgin domestic terminal. Staff are rude, arrogant and are on a power trip that is totally over the top making for a miserable experience. I wear a sunflower pin which is globally recognised except in Perth where they seem to think it gives them carte blanche to cause you as much upset as possible asking your medical condition which they should not do. Not wishing to go through the body scanner due to the health risk of being microwaved but being willing to endure a pat down requested politely saw their behaviour be very aggressive and threatening to prevent my partner from flying. They appeared to enjoy seeing the distress that it was causing me. You don't get treated like this on a bus or train in fact the train from Melbourne to Sydney is an example of great customer service at a reasonable price with decent food also sensibly priced. Sadly flying is pretty much to only way to get anywhere when leaving Perth as if there was an alternative we would take it. As for the rest of the airport - the food is crazy price and poor quality.

✅ Trip Verified | I have had a few pretty poor experiences but my latest one this morning kinda tops the rest. Due to a mix between drop off queuing, airport security and Qantas tomfoolery I managed to miss a flight. I left home this morning at 0357 for my 0515 flight to Karratha. The average travel time to and from the Airport is usually around the area of 45 minutes. I arrived to the drop off queue for my 0515 flight at 0442 this morning leaving me 13 minutes to do the above things and arrive at my boarding terminal for boarding at 0455. No bags to check in so in "theory" plenty of time. Queuing several flights causes huge waves of congestion particularly around 6AM/9AM and 4PM/7PM. I was expecting that my earlier flight may have missed that window but I was wrong. Managed through the queue departing the car at 0446, dashed for airport screening and managed to get through to the scanners relatively fast as they where hurrying people through that had flights boarding soon. The queue, de-bagging myself and body screening probably took about 3 minutes. Upon scanning my bag they identified a grease coupler fitting, due to the fact that the the fitting while clearly viable due to the clear plastic was still in the clearly labelled original packaging. The identity and use of such a tool eluded the security staff, and required a manager to inspect it. The screening procedure, checking 3 other peoples baggage took 14 minutes. I dashed up the escalator and made the short trip to gate 8. All in all about a minute from the scanners, I checked my phone to bring up my boarding pass and noticed I missed a alert from Qantas that boarding had began early. 2 minutes early. I arrived at 0505, 10 minutes after boarding was supposed to start. Yet they closed the gates 1 minute prior as they "only allow 12 minutes for boarding." I was both somehow two minutes spare and two minutes short to board my flight to Karratha this morning. Qantas was unable to change my flight to either of the couple that would leave leave this morning. Also quick review about the Terminal, Parking is expensive, the stuff in the "mall" is expensive, airport screening staff is an acronym and it's self describing of their competence), the pick up and drop off needs far more work not just overpriced boom-gates if it takes longer than 6 minutes to get around and public transport needs work, takes almost 3 hours for me to bus and train to from my home.

✅ Trip Verified | Things just go from bad to worse at this airport, mostly by border force and security services. I intend to make a written complaint to Border Force after I have completed this review. They state that they do not do profiling but every time I have departed this airport, I have been pulled aside and checked for explosives. For reference, I've never had a run in with the law, I'm a 57 year old IT Professional currently working IN aviation. So why do I keep getting pulled aside? Somebody this morning tried to tell me it was coincidence. This morning's arrival back to Perth was even worse. After checking in to the airport electronically with my passport, I was asked about explosives etc, even asked about my passport and who provided my ticket.

✅ Trip Verified | It starts with the T1/T2/T3/T4 roulette - international except qantas domestic, domestic except qantas, does your head in; badly-signed roundabouts etc. Long term parking and bus seems logical though. Self-check-in - nobody around to assist, most people struggling with the bag tag sticker puzzle, some people just not familiar with the system, but a human would be just the thing to ease that confusion, or so you'd think. No bins for the label backing strip. So zero points there Perth. Bag drop - one man in hi-vis, looking blankly at a screen while sitting on a stool, ignoring the elderly ladies trying to work out where to drop and how to lift their cases onto the conveyor. They had sent one of their number to seek help elsewhere. I helped them in the end. I called out in frustration to the empty void where people could be that some human help would be appreciated and that whoever worked there was a lazy dog. Surprisingly, a woman soon sauntered out with as much enthusiasm as one. Hi-vis guy was totally ignorant. The bag drop pass reader that shows "scan here" on the left while the scanner itself is on the right. When I asked the hi-vis guy for help with this he was annoyed and not helpful, "Read the sign" and stormed back to his stool. Zero points here again. Gate 53 bar cafe Haymark. Staffed by three people having a yarn on the cafe side where there were no customers, while two people waited at the bar. One of the three staff came thru and saw the bar customers, said nothing, turned around and went back to the cafe side. Same guy came thru to the bar side again a few minutes later and didn't say anything until my lady asked him to serve her. "Oh" he said, "I thought you were being served"! By whom I wonder, as his two colleagues were still next door. Perth airport has no drink bottle refill stations after security. There is a drink tap designed for slurping from, hidden around in the toilet lobby, with more poor signage. So to refill a bottle you are blocking access to the toilets, as well as having to half fill a second container and pour that into your bottle. Auckland and Queenstown airports both had multiple, well-signed drink bottle refill stations. Absolutely the worst experience, I'm a regular Perth airport user since i live there, and that was the one that broke the camel's back. Shit all the way. Only gets a 1/10 because I can't leave the slider at zero. 30th December 2023, QF176, 7pm departure.

✅ Trip Verified | Perth Airport is the Western Gateway to Australia. Well somebody should fix the gate because it is badly broken. The International departure lounge is an absolute embarrassment. Lack of toilets, substandard and inadequate food outlets and general lack of space, once again created a low point of our latest overseas trip. Having to traverse the entire length of the T1 Departure lounge and then go downstairs to go to the toilet, as the 3 single stalls behind the bar close to our gate were queued up. Grabbing a bottle of water and trying to pay for it ... standing at the counter for 5 minutes I then noticed a sign saying "Go to the other Counter". I did so and stood for another couple of minutes without laying eyes on any staff member. I then went up to another counter where 2 ladies were having a conversation and was told to go over to the lady sitting at a Till. There I joined the queue, with people ordering food and paying for items ... the whole episode took nearly 20 minutes. Having to move from our seat and table for passengers boarding a Singapore Airlines flight as the line of passengers had to double back into the bar area perimeter. Going back to previous departure where our only option for food was Hungry Jacks, Chicken Nuggets n Chips or cold Pizza , washed down with a $17 pint. We might be presenting a beautiful place for our international visitors to holiday or conduct business, but all that may be lost to the dreadful, dreary & painful memory of Departure.

✅ Trip Verified |  Men’s toilets are a disgrace. Putrid smells, taps not working to wash hands, dirty basins, dirty floors and overall awful. You can always tell an establishment by their toilets. It’s the 1% that goes a long way.