western Sydney airport august update 2024
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- The Western Sydney International Airport is under construction and scheduled to commence operation in 2026. The airport is located 44 kilometres west of the Sydney CBD on Badgerys Creek Road, Badgerys Creek in Western Sydney. The airport has been named after Nancy-Bird Walton, a female aviation pioneer in Australia who trained female pilots in World War II.
The Australian Government is investing up to $5.3 billion in equity to deliver the airport through the Commonwealth company, “Western Sydney Airport”. The project will be delivered in stages as demand grows.
The airport will open initially with a single runway and facilities to cater for up to 5 million international and domestic passengers. By 2031 a second runway will be added and it is expected that passenger numbers will grow to around 10 million passengers. By around 2063, it is expected that around 82 million passengers will pass through the terminals annually.
The link below provides additional information and resources from the official website for the Western Sydney Airport.
The Sydney Metro Western Sydney Airport which will connect the airport with rail in time for its opening in 2026. The airport is also supported by the Western Sydney Infrastructure Plan, which outlines major road infrastructure projects to keep traffic moving in Western Sydney.
Sydney Airport was founded by Nigel Love, who, on 19 November 1919 took off from the grassy paddocks in Mascot he had leased. He carried one passenger, a photographer named Billy Marshall who wanted to get some aerial photos of Sydney.
In 2019, 100 years later, more than 44 million passengers will travel through Sydney Airport. That’s the equivalent of filling the Sydney Cricket Ground three times over every day of the year!
Some amazing things have been found on the site of Sydney Airport, none more so than a dugong skeleton in Shea’s Creek (now Alexandra Canal). Radiocarbon dating found these bones to be around 6000 years old, with marks on the skeleton demonstrating an Aboriginal connection.
Today’s Domestic terminal precinct sits on the Lauriston Park estate, built for workers at nearby factories from 1902. The horseshoe-shaped road remains from the original Lauriston Park road layout and there were still residents living in the estate up until 1990.
A railway line once crossed one of the runways at Sydney Airport.
Keith ‘Bill’ Bradfield, son of John Bradfield who designed the Sydney Harbour Bridge and City Circle railway line, designed the runway configuration (the current main runway and east-west runway) in 1945.
The Cooks River previously flowed across what is today the airfield, but was diverted to allow for construction of the Bradfield plan.
The first jet plane at Sydney Airport took off in July 1959 - a Qantas Boeing 707. The first Boeing 747 flew to Sydney in October 1970, and the famous supersonic Concorde visited Sydney several times between 1972 and 1999.
When The Beatles touched down at Sydney Airport in 1964, there were scenes of hysteria from the crowd of more than 1000 screaming fans, and 150 police were on hand to try and keep control. Although cold and raining heavily, the band was paraded on an open-top truck.
Sydney Airport’s main runway is one of the longest commercial runways in the world at just under 4km. It was extended to this length in the late 1970s so it could double as a designated emergency landing site for the NASA Space Shuttle until 1986.
The International terminal, now known as T1, was officially opened in 1970 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Before then, all terminals were in today’s Domestic precinct.
The third runway (16L-34R) opened in 1994.
Sydney Airport’s biggest single makeover took place ahead of the 2000 Olympics and cost $2 billion.
The world’s first commercial A380 flight (Singapore Airlines) landed at Sydney Airport in October 2007.
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Just visited the experience centre today and saw the airport for the first time since construction began. I've been watching these drone videos for a long time, but tell you what, seeing it in person was something else. You don't comprehend how big it actually is until you see it in person. And seeing the amount of construction of infrastructure surrounding the airport was astonishing. This really is a huge operation, and it's fantastic to see. Awesome video mate.
@@Agent44996
KISS please
I also haven’t been out there since they started clearing the land, I better get out there.
Yes it is very big up close I get many comments about how small it is and not small by any means thank you for watching my video 👍
Chill beats, great close ups of the terminal, interesting insights 👏 great video. Thanks.
Thank you 😊
Thank you fr updating the WSI building progress.😃
Your welcome 😊
Singapore Airlines announced this past week that it will be the first foreign carrier to serve WSI. This will allow residents whom live in the western suburbs of Sydney to travel to global destinations such as London without having to drive to SYD. Hopefully, the Australian government will be able to persuade other carriers such as Cathay Pacific Airways and Emirates Airlines to serve the new airport as well as cargo operators moving their services from SYD to WSI to take advantage of the latter's 24-hour curfew-free operations.
Yes seen this on the news great for Western Sydney 👍
Very nice overview of WSI construction.
Thank you
Thanks so much for your updates Colin.
Hey Colin, you probably have already heard that they are closing down the airspace at WSI from 1st October...
Wow out of all that visual footage I could only see one person moving on a forklift ..cracking pace 😮😊
Yeah forklift operator was flying 😅
It's Sunday morning not many people working on Sunday and most of them are inside the terminal working
Love the way the rooftop air handling units shade the solar cells😁 maybe they could've used an architect?
@watos77 well you be able to enjoy the Architecture from your flight every time you fly 😁
I noticed that the gate and the end of the Domestic side has no provision for an airbridge. Every other gate has a hole for a doorway. My guess is that there will a few stands away from the gate and maybe this is where passengers will enter. I wonder if Air Services Australia is planning to take away the towers at other airports if the digital technology works at WSI. I can see one hub controlling all airports.
🇦🇺🛬🌐✈ Most impressive construction side of WSA hire in West Sydney. Compare to future development this is just beginning. Yat. Not toomany airports under construction equivalent to this huge growing new hub, Western Sydney Airport. At list on Southern Hemisphere.
Yesterday I was lucky enough to be one of many visitors.
In last 55 years of traveling to 179 airports, 7.500 hours of flights. Witnessed so much about trveling and airports.
With hope to can have little jujment of present development at WESTERN SYDNEY AIRPORT.
My hearth go to WSA. 🇦🇺✈
Rodney Marinkovic Enthusiast ♥️✈♥️🛬😀✈
West Ryde NSW 2114
Well said 👍
I would have express buses going from WSI to Glenfield Station.
Then it is only 35 minutes to Kingford Smith.
I would expect that bus route will put in place
missed opportunity with the roof design, look at the new fish market roof in Sydney or overseas.
I think the roof will have a much better view from inside. A lot o curve shapes will be in the ceiling. I hope you will like it more once finished
It looks like a small shed compared to other airports around the world like Singapore. And only 1 runway "Seriously "
I still don’t understand the claims on passenger numbers etc. that terminal is small and looks to be the size of Adelaide regarding number of gates etc. is there a bigger master plan we are not seeing?
What you see is 25% of what it will be in the future. There is plenty of space to grow.
There is a bigger master plan you can see. WSI Airport site plan 10Map (of when it opens for 10 million a year) and WSI Airport Site 82Map for when it is developed for up to 82 million. The latter shows something like 80 of those. They are not gates but piers that can provide up to four gates. Suggest you either see it in the flesh or compare with the terminal sizes at Sydney KSA. Even what is there is large. It’s all public information thats easy to find.
Believe me it's not a small terminal I don't how many times iv said this
Exactly my thoughts. Tbh Adelaide looks bigger 😂
Nice looking bunnings
Looks like a long walk to the metro station. Maybe they will get a moving walkway?
No only 60 metres to front of the terminal
A couple of things Coln.
The three white tanks shown above the ground and said to be for aircraft fuel.
New airports and some old the tanks are located underground.
By 2031 it is planned another runway will be installed with only twelve existing bays.
Another terminal or a large extension will be needed also.
It is evident that there was no achitecteral award given for the design of the terminal.
If these upgrades were to be done now the extra expense would be say another billion against
probably 10 billion in another five or six years.
The drone footage is getting better. Would love to see a lower one on the runway. Be cool
Thanks for watching unfortunately I can only go the information ready available on the internet so if the tanks are under ground or above ground I wouldn't know mate and regards the flying even lower to the runway well I could however I would lose signal back to the RC controller there are many Environmental factors cheers col
A couple of things Mark.
Your information about fuel storage appears to be from a Quora article (came up with the same words as soon as I Googled it - sadly t's not really an authoritative source).
Airport fuel tanks are usually underground at smaller regional airports, similar to the scale of underground tanks at your local Service Stations. Large fuel farms for larger airports (and at oil refineries, and large storage facilities, like Port Botany) are generally above-ground. Look at any of the major Australian airports and you will see them (e.g. Sydney KSA, just north of the international terminal as you drive past - Brisbane off Hakea street, just north of their international terminal - Melbourne, just east across the M2 from the airport - Perth, just west of Fricker Rd, etc.
If you do a search for 'WSI Airport Site Layout 10Map' and '...82Map' you can look at the layout for the airport on opening (10 million pax per year) and up to the 2050s (82 million). The terminal you currently see has 7 piers, each of which can accommodate one wide body, two narrow body or four regional aircraft. That first terminal alone will expand out to about 25 piers. Even so the existing structure is quite large. Google map it and measure its length, then flick across to Sydney KSA at the same scale and see how it compares with the current terminals there (spoiler alert - it's quite big)
That will all be replicated on other side of the airport, along with a connecting section, forming a large H shaped set of terminals centred around the Metro station. The current terminal building is just a bit of one of four proposed. Just look at those maps and it will tell the story. I think it ends up with about 80 piers in total. The second Metro station just east of the current one is also shown on 82 map.
As for fast-tracking some of it, your intentions are good but your business economics are a bit off. The increased costs are mostly inflation, not the real costs/savings. Infrastructure is designed to provide a return; so it's not appropriate or responsible to build it until the market is ready to use it to generate income. Better off spending on nearby industry/employment infrastructure, services for residential areas and for the increasing population (hospitals, schools, that sort of thing).
@@tacitdionysus3220 KISS
Just as well that attitude wasn't around 100 years ago when they designed and built Sydney Harbour bridge.
And the fast train to the city will be great. 🙄😉
Fast train will be great, alas one kink in the planning. Freight trains also pass through St Mary`s and have a history of breakdowns causing the rail system stop and after long delays they then elect to use buses until the breakdown is resolved.
Not in my lifetime
@@colindobson4045 👍😄😄😄
did they opt for the cheapest design
My first concern when going to an airport isn't the design it's getting on the my flight quickly and as efficiently as possible
@@colindobson4045and doing that is connected to the design of the airport if your technically speaking
house prices in the south west are not going to have a good time
Have seen prices in south-West Sydney just about double in price so I don't see the airport affecting house prices well not yet anyhow
@@colindobson4045 over on the flight routes out and into the airport, there will be 24/7 noise, lowering house prices on any houses located underneath
Why does this have ONLY 7 airbays? DAFQ? also "toll free"? yeah right XD. its so far away LMAFO
There is plenty of public information about the airport I would suggest you check it out
Shame the architects didn’t visit China before starting their design. 🙄😏
Yeah, nah mate. Don’t think images of a Great Wall or Tiananmen Square would quite blend into the Western suburbs. The indoor forest thing, the aerofoils, the framed vista of the Blue Mountains, and sense of space and functionality over grand displays are just fine.
ThThanks for your update Colin, very interesting. One thing, at 13:56 you mention "aircrafts". This is not a valid word. The word "aircraft" is both singular and plural. One aircraft, two aircraft, etc.
Thanks for the feedback 👍