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Sydney’s New $4 Billion Airport Set to Open with Barely Any Flights
The airport opens with only a handful of airlines and fewer than six scheduled passenger flights a day as carriers wait for demand to build.
- On Oct 25, Western Sydney International will handle its first passenger flight, a Jetstar service to the Gold Coast, serving the growing population of Greater Western Sydney 50km inland from the city centre.
- While the facility anticipates 82 million passengers annually by 2063, current adoption remains limited, with only a handful of airlines and half a dozen or fewer scheduled flights daily for the next 12 months according to aviation data company Cirium.
- Compounding logistical hurdles, the planned rail link will not open until 2027 and a shuttle bus to Sydney costs A$55. Sydney Kingsford Smith remains more practical, sitting 20 minutes from the central business district by taxi or train.
- Transport professor David Levinson of the University of Sydney warned the facility could mirror Mirabel Airport in Montreal, which ceased commercial passenger flights in 2004, calling passenger forecasts "a bit optimistic."
- Western Sydney International Chief Executive Officer Simon Hickey stated he is "really happy with where we're sitting" as he negotiates with additional carriers to capture demand from the region's 6.1 million residents by 2030.
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Sydney's second airport, which cost over 5 trillion won, is preparing to begin passenger operations, but it has been revealed that fewer than six flights per day are scheduled for the next year. With few airlines operating there and the railway connecting to the city center not yet open, it remains unclear how many passengers the airport will be able to attract. According to a report by Bloomberg on the 19th (local time), citing data from aviati…
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