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While it looks like 7 'gates', there is actually 13 Aerobridges....allowing 13 planes to park and load all at once! Then there is more likely several bays for smaller planes to park and load with stair access. Every airport have these, Even Mascot and Tullamarine!

after more than 40 years just for a 7 gates airport

@@fatdoi003 There are actually 13 airbridges plus there will be several hard stand gates (same as Sydney for REX) so the number of gates will be up to 20. The airport will be the same size as Adelaide which handles 7.9 million passengers annually.

they doing it like later idk

What is your problem dude? The capacity of this airport is 10million as is, with the second half completed as demand grows. Why build a second runway until needed? If they did I'm sure you'd complain about it being a massive white elephant. It's got a 30 year development schedule ffs. Oh, that's right - build a 50m capacity airport in the middle of nowhere and wait 30 years for it to be needed. Glad you don't plan Sydney's infrastructure.

What, since this video was shot? Your comment is 2 days after the video was posted.

Melbourne airport handles 60 - 70% of the passengers that Sydney does, and they have a main runway and a cross runway. Equivalent to maybe 1.4 parallel runways? WSI will do just fine with one runway for many years.

with only 7 planes..... the traffic's too small for another runway.....

A second runway and three more terminals are being built as passenger numbers grow.

You mean “ will be built” Without a plane being landed planners knew that the demand will be overwhelming and planes and passengers will be diverted back to Sydney

cause thats the domestic side, the other side is international

I understand there are more gates (or should I call them "stands"..but access via a bus, similar to at Melbourne. As it grows I suppose they will make more aerobridges

I thought so too until I saw it in person.

It’s not finished yet. A second runway and three more terminals will be added as demand grows.

@@MaxS-hn8we The obvious demand is evident. The amount of traffic that is sent their way to alleviate congestion at Sydney is way too much for this so called International airport to handle. The Government will make a big fanfare years into the future announcing another runway when it should have been constructed at this moment

you're joking, right? They should build car parking to cater for the opening day crowds?? And they should build car parks not based on passenger requirements, but to grab revenue? Stage 1 will have 11,500 car spaces. Long term plans, as the airport grows and when it becomes a two runway operation, the plans call for 70,000. That's extremely unlikely. The existing airport only has about 16,000 split between domestic, international and long term. Remember, it is a SECOND airport, served by a high speed metro with more capacity than the existing airport line. Parking will not be a concern, ever. As for "the planners don't fly that much", yeah, sure, they've go no idea about this airport that has been more than a decade in the planning. Here's the easy-to-read public guidelines. Take a look and tell me they're a bunch of greenie dreamers. www.westernsydneyairport.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/wsa-plan-2021.pdf

@@zizhiqu The government has stuffed the public transport to this airport.. "jet " buses from Liverpool ,Campbelltown ? etc NOONE will use those they are absolute mockery. Who will be lugging their luggage on an old bus that takes a hour for a 15 minute drive? The metro takes the long way around back into Sydney via Parramatta and you must change from light to heavy .The car parkings will be in hot demand, all locals will drive to the airport.

@@zizhiqu As a retired Cabbie that use to service Mascot , One A330-300 or alike can easily absorb 300 taxis Alas , what if two or more planes are docking near the same time . A 24 hour airport will need ranking for at least 500 taxis at any given time and domestic peak will require even more. The Taxi holding should be capable of holding at least a thousand taxis. If I had my way the taxis would all be 7 seater maxis minimum capacity with some up to 15 seat capacity .

@@ronvorbach1464how does a 737 absorb 300 taxis when it seats 174 people?

@@nickwaller3823i was scratching my head over that one too!!

I am not sure. I would imagine it will be further to the south in all the green space below the Sydney Metro Station is my guess. Sorry

www.westernsydneyairport.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/wsa-plan-2021.pdf Scroll down to about page 20. Diagrams of airport layout showing parallel runways.

It will be parallel to the existing runway but on the other side of the terminal. They have a good visitor centre with all the details, near Luddenum.

Here we go again! “ will” In other words no idea or way into the future unless there is a catastrophic accident due to lack of construction to match the obvious present urgent need let alone the future

At the moment. After this opens they start on part two, terminal and runway of equal sizes.

More terminal extensions on current side in future, running most of apron length. Second runway later; parallel 1.9 km apart, in area out of view to the right. Mirror image of terminals on that side. Similar parallel runway layout as London Heathrow. Metro station is midway between terminals on either side. Also more terminals and aprons running left to right between two sides of airport (on this side of current construction.

No they will not. this will increase capacity for Sydney itself. This one will not have a curfew unlike Sydney International.

That's harbourside Sydney Airport. This is primarily for Western Sydney, which now has a larger population that the rest of greater Sydney.

Wdym?

Passengers won’t be walking to their plane, they will use busses or jet bridges.

Similar thing with circular or multiple circles (like DFW). Still have to go through baggage drop and security, except then you walk to your gate in a curve instead of a straight line. Straight systems are better for installing moving walkways.

Na, yeah. Provision for a full length parallel taxiway. Look left of the apron. The grass area has sufficient room up its centre, between the drainage ditches. Won't need it for several years though, probably around same time as second runway construction. The apron is a bit bigger than it looks. Some drone footage already shows the ground marking lines for aircraft on the apron, which gives a better sense of scale.

Wow didn't realise it had hail? Hope your wheels are ok. Glad I wasn't flying my plane or chopper..drone from 20km away is fine by me.

@@skyviewaerial2004 luckily im fine, maybe a scratch or a dent but im fine. and yes there was lots of hail maybe around coin-sized in width.

Gale-force winds had also hit my suburb, maybe around 70-100kmh