FIRST LOOK at Sydney's Brand New Airport!
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- A rare look inside Sydney’s new International Airport during construction. See the terminal, new runway, the construction site, transport links, airport layout and more. See one of the biggest construction projects ever undertaken in Australia.
Thanks to Sam and the team at Western Sydney International Airport for hosting myself and the other media outlets. I am excited to travel through WSI as a passenger once you're open.
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Congratulations Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport secures the airport code WSI. Now that the New western Sydney airport given official code it really feels like the airport project is making great progress. It really is one of the Biggest Megaprojects Under Construction in 2023.
The Western sydney airport construction is well underway, a megabuild for Sydney, covered here by 7news australia, 9 news, the ABC and me. In this exclusive first look at Sydney's brand new airport, you can see inside and get a glimpse of what's to come!
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Questionable tour guide, but awesome video.
Thanks so much for coming Stef! Was awesome to meet you, and can't wait to have EYZ as our first landing... maybe... 🛫🛣
Somehow I don’t think it’s the tour guide’s last appearance on this channel. Here’s to the “first landing” video in 2026 :) Thanks for a brilliant day at your very impressive site Sam, excited to see it progress.
Hopefully GA pilots will be able to shoot the ILS for a while before it opens, and maybe a GA fly-in a week before to give ATC a bit of a workout.
I don’t know, I thought he was pure UA-cam talent. Can’t wait for him to start his own channel.
I like how he managed to squeeze the "watch this _airspace_ " gag in. Nice work son.
"the roof's gonna go on top, that's where roofs go"
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I hate it when they put roofs on the bottom.
@@rinzler9775 It's down under, No ? 🤔😮🤓
@@StefanDrury 00000000000
I would say you’re a lot more important in terms of reaching the correct audience than channel 1,2,3,4 news etc could ever be. I’m in Scotland and had no idea WSI was even an idea let alone being built, so you have spread the news far wider than the AU news channels did.
Our community is strong David! Thanks, I’m grateful for the support. Also, hello to Scotland, spent many a Christmas up there with Grandparents from near Edinburgh.
WSI is 30 years too late. Gubmints ummed and ahhhd over it for all this time, meanwhile people moved into that area only to have an international airport shoved up their noses.
Pilot.
YMER
I'd concur with this David. I too am in Scotland having recently moved over from Australia, and I also had no idea that there was a new airport being built in Sydney until watching this video!
Definitely gotta fly out in 2027
Ahhh. You haven’t ever lived in Sydney. This has been a hot button issue since 1990. That’s when they expanded the capacity of Sydney Kingsford Smith, instead of building a second airport. Over 500,000 people live under the current runways, and I can assure you they know about the second airport.
As it was started in 2018, it’s no longer a hot story. However I think it will be big story when it opens.
Wait until people buy houses next to it, then start complaining about the noise. I am not sure that lack of curfew will last. Looks like a great piece of infrastructure, thanks for the tour.
If they zone it that way thats 100% on the council/state government.
@@theDataStudent State Government. With the small population around WSI, councils and their residents have virtually no say.
FYI all night flights will arrive and depart in the south/west direction only.
You deserved this mate, I'm so proud on how great your channel grew. Hope to se EYZ flying here soin
Definitely Australia's premier news outlet right here! Some may decry the lack of sport and weather, but those things would only get in the way of more aviation.
Haha. Lola the sports reporter cat sleeps 23 hours a day unfortunately so we had to cancel her segment.
So who is going to use this airport? As a tourist to Sydney I like taking the short trip into the CBD from SYD.
Very cool!!! Thank you for your video I live in Sydney and didn’t even know that they are actually building this second airport!
My pilot brother told me about your channel and I’ve subscribed right away!
Thank You!
Stones came from Tunnels being built in Sydney by Westconex to lay down on the airstrip.
In other news Sydney renames itself Sidney!
Ground floor is always used for arrival. Upper level is for departure, as it is equally high alke aeroplane level. You seemed to be confused about it..
I drive past this weekly on the northern road it's interesting to see how much progress has been made.
Great vid as always keep it up
Thanks Brandon
Great video, and WSI does look impressive. You mentioned you did your training in Bankstown, which flight school did you use?
Just as a matter of curiosity how are they getting the fuel for the planes there - is it going to be piped from Port Botany or trucked in?🤔
Very amazing to see all the progress made on the airport. It's amazing that you got the opportunity to get a look-around!
Yeah a really special experience to take a look around, thanks Declan.
Like all Sydney GA pilots I’m worried about the airspace changes - in the meantime with a 3km runway under a training area at times there’s practically a circuit of training aircraft doing PFLs. Instructor “Simulated Engine Failure!” Student “Hmm, I wonder where I’m going to land? Perhaps that bloody great big 3000m strip of bitumen under my left wing?”…
I see so many big cities adding 2nd airports or expanding existing ones. Toronto Pearson expanded as far as it could.....but I don't see another Toronto airport ever being built; we just keep spreading out!
Hey!! Nice job down there people.
I saw EYZ last weekend at YSBK and you were at Avalon airshow apparently it is someelse flying EYZ then
If you manage to be the first plane to land at WSI I'll come over from the UK to watch!
Piper Warrior from Basair has the record of being first to land there. Surprised everyone, including the pilot!
Ha yes, I heard about that one. I am talking new runway surface, ILS, media helicopters recording the event, Qantas in the hold waiting for me. That's the landing I'm after!
4:30 Ground floor is for departure 2nd floor is for arrival? That is surprised me！
The first time a second Sydney airport was discussed was 1949, glad to see it finally coming together
Kingsford Smith waaaaay more convenient to get to for me. Door to door, around 35 mins on public transport w connections.
And cheaper, now that I've worked out how to avoid the exorbitant private train station access fee.
WSI would probably a whole day trip.
And Melb still no train
Aw cute Syney will be allowed to stay awake late at night and play with the big boys in Melbourne
It is a Nice piece of engineering. Its 3 years from completion and still A 24/7 airport with no published flight paths or indications of the noise impact on 1/2 of Sydney population who live in Western Sydney A Noise issue even with quieter aircraft that now exist. As as most flights will be after hours to make to connections to the major Asian hubs.
The only thing that worries me and you may have answered it , what is the connection for passengers between WSI and SYD.
Steff, you have always been better than Channel 7, 9 and the ABC. And a quick question, most international airports around the world have 60m wide runways. Why does Australia always do 45m. Are we too poor? I would have thought that a 4000m x 60m wide runway would have been ideal. Anyway, great video and I'm happy to see it finally come to fruition. I remember flying out of Bankstown in the 80s and we knew where the airport was gonna be. Does "Brinjelly chicken sheds" rekindle any memories? 40 years plus - better late than never. Keep up the great wok.
Why isn’t departures on the top level of the airport, once you land you want to get out of the airport, usually you walk down onto the aircraft and then off aircraft down another level.
Living in Pyrmont and flying Scoot and Air Asia quite a bit I'm not looking forward to this. They don't seem to have bothered with a quick way of getting there from the city.
I wish they had built it in Wilton and worked on a fast train from Central.
Western Sydney International is a good name for the new airport. It has a good ring about it.
Let's hope that whatever party wins the state election on March 25. They make a commitment to extend the Sydney metro train line from Talawong through Ropes Crossing into St Marys. It gives people a second way to access the new airport from the CBD. If there is a problem with the main western line. A second train line to the west makes good sense. It would help reduce congestion on the western rail line.
5:56 this has got to be the best engineer I’ve ever seen. Utter genius.
I wander what's going to happen to the GA training area they have over there Stef
The lack of curfew should make it attractive to long haul eg Emirates. But I wonder how they will avoid the Tokyo situation where everyone really wants to go to Haneda (like Kingsford Smith) but is forced to Narita (like Western Sydney). Also it could spread domestic connections more thinly if eg Qantas needs to serve both. Not being negative, I just wonder how it will work out. Particularly as a kiwi I would rather not have to go 50km out of town to catch a 3hr flight to NZ!
Really, Do a twelve hour shift with a 3.30 start in a hospital with Terminal cancer child patients.Enjoy your trip to Dubai...
@@cambo123451 That’s apples and oranges. Unless you are staying in Western Sydney or travelling out of Sydney, then adding almost an hour to a 3 hour journey is very unattractive.
awesome
Imagine the faces of tourists when they find out they've flown into an Airport 50km away from actual Sydney.
45 degrees in the middle of summer.
Sorry how does that differ from the horror of turning up at "London" Stansted, or "Tokyo" Narita, or Ryanair's "Paris" Beauvais, or the stupidity of callng Avalon "Melbourne"
Pretty relaxed I’d say. Sydney’s never had a 45 degree day. They’d step off an ac plane into an ac terminal then take an ac metro into Sydney. The geographical centre of ‘actual Sydney’ is Parramatta CBD which is 24km away and being developed as a parallel transport hub to Sydney CBD.
I'm not sure if it's for tourists, moreso people who live out west
@@FlyxPat Penrith had had plenty of 45 degree days. It is often 5-8 degrees hotter in western Sydney than it is in actual Sydney.
@@emmett3067 - omg you’re quite right, I checked, the highest temp was 48.9 in January 4 2020. That’s grim. That could be extremely stressful - even fatal - for many Australians let alone foreigners.
Great video! I don't know why, but my favorite part was "The roof's going on top, obviously. That's where roofs go." 😆
Looks great so far. The whole project has been an impressive feat of planning, logistics and construction and I'm very much looking forward to more flight and connection options once it opens and there's no curfew.
An instant like, then settling back to watch. Nice one Stefan. 👍
Thanks Laz, I appreciate that.
What's funny is it's already had it's first landing; an aircraft did an emergency landing there last year/year before
So am I to understand domestic flights will land there, or will transiting passengers from city’s inside Australia have to travel the 45 mins between airports to do the international flight.
great content, thanks stef
In my opinion, as a private owner of a plane you are also owner of a privately owned airline: Milkshake Air. That being said, it would be cool to see Milkshake Air send EYZ on a maiden flight to WSI. Maybe even have the firetrucks out for a water hose/cannon salute! 😉
I live in leonay near Emu plains no flight path details yet,the people of Penrith won't like No Curfew...
Someone already landed there in a forced landing due to engine out
Great video and well deserved! 👍 I’m bewildered why the 2nd parallel runway isn’t built now since all the equipment and engineers are available now? It’ll become mighty expensive to add it on later. Strange here in Australia we have very few parallel runway airports.
Do you live here????
Probably due to cost.... And maybe their isn't the need?
@@longnamedude3947 if there is an incident or air traffic increases there will be a need.
My question is about the Jet A-1 fuel we import to Botany Bay.
How will billions of liters of fuel get to WSI? '
Thanks SD I am a long time sub and enjoyed many of your tubes.
Make sure you add a observation deck (a terrace) for the kids and adults that love to watch aeroplanes, photograph aircraft, and aircraft spotting. In fact where he was reporting on the other side of the terminal, western side of the runway looks elevated and above the fence line.
Interesting that the arrival hall is on a higher floor than departure hall. It's generally the other way with other major international airports around the world.
I agree. I was wondering the same thing. I think Stefan may have got it wrong.
Hmmm I am sure property prices around the future WSI are shooting up already and if Kingsford Smith is closing sometime in the future that area should be very interesting for development too. You are so lucky there around Sydney getting a brand new airport running. Wish we had it here in Frankfurt too. Now the next project should be high speed railroads in Australia, at least the Cairns, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne corridor; or even further to Adelaide and on. Tourists would be absolutely overrunning you then enjoying the great Australian landscape. Business and travel to and from Sydney would certainly appreciate it too and catapult you into an amazing future. So do yourself the service and have a high speed rail from Sydney out to the airport via either Parramatta/Liverpool or a circleline- that connected to a line going north south would be awesome even with short haul air travel around.
Is it true, that the new WSI airport have to use trucks to fuel aeroplanes..? As in the WSI airport don't have fueling area..?
just a question...is there plans to build a hotel (s) at this airport? because Im guessing there will be not much around this airport besides new residential areas...also so what happens if there is a major bushfire out this way....everything will be diverted to Kingsford Smith?
It's nice that Sydney is opening up a new airport but for international folks like myself who travel frequently to Sydney, given the choice, I won't be using WSI, it's just too far from where my relatives reside. It's much closer to go to Kingsford. When it's all said and done I wonder how useful this second airport will be for the majority of the folks who need to go to the Eastern suburbs.
Western Sydney has higher growth and population than the eastern suburbs, also most of the state's largest warehouses/dcs are all in the west now so lots of cargo will land here.
It's not necessarily for tourists or visitors though. The only reason they'd use it is to fly in and out during Kingsford's closing hrs. The airport is for Western Sydney residents that already have a hard time reaching Kingsford-Smith, and for further development out west.
Usually arrivals is on ground level and departures is up above, apparently WSI will be the other way around...
Unless that's how it's done in Australia as I've never been down under, greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷
YWSI... smack bang in the middle of the training area where I did my GFPT out of YSBK back in 2008... interesting to see how the new training area will look.
Over tiger country
Hi Stefan, great reporting but I've a big question, why just one runway?
Shouldn't they take the opportunity to get two in order to accomodate more flights in the future?
I was thinking the exact same thing. There must be a reason but even so...a new international airport which, in due course will take the brunt of international flights as, if I'm not mistaken, YSSY will be Qantas only, a single runway seems very odd indeed.
@@nsw72 There won't be any issues with capacity of a single runway for at least the first 5 years of the airport's life. The vast majority of movements will be freight to begin with, and a few domestic RPT flights. I think you will see Bonza fly from here also. International will be players like Jetstar, Air Asia and Scoot initially, plus a diversion available at YWSI when fog at YSSY is too thick of the CAT III A approaches. I believe YWSI will have CAT III B like Brisbane & Perth.
The second runway will be built in the future when needed, it's all planned and ready to go, and all the infrastructure is built with that in mind.
@@MonstaAU Appreciate the input, mate.
Cheers!
I was thinking the same, I would of thought two runways from the start, if you have an incident on the runway, or maintenance etc it shuts the whole airport down, with traffic having to divert to Sydney airport
@@MikedWilson Simply not enough utilisation in the first 5 years of the airport life to make the spend on the additional runway (and additional services and maintenance costs including terminal space on both side and taxiways between them) worthwhile. A single runway will provide for ~500 movements per day with a peak hour of 49 movements, which the EIS (specifically section 5, go check it out) states will equate to 37 million annual passengers PLUS freight.
The projection is that the first runway is out of capacity ~2050. Now I would say that you will probably get more airlines flying there because of no curfew to make scheduling easier, or lack of available slots at YSSY, so I would say that projected date is a bit too far into the future. They probably want to start constructing it around 2032-2035 by my reckoning.
There's a ton of forward planning in the design, including 1900m separation between runways so each one is fully independent for takeoffs and landings. I do wish they started with a wider runway than 60m though. They can be widened later however.
they're going to build a private space station before this thing is finished. go slow Australia, go slow
Yes! We need to see the infamous EYZ fly into the new WSI. 😎🙌🛩
EYZ , first to Land at WSI… didn’t you just make a video on making plans for future events that don’t happen?? 😂
That would be a coup if you get the first landing at WSI, even if it’s not the first official one. Good luck Stefan
Good to know that channels 7,9,10 and ABC are still a thing ... who knew.
A good wrap up of the current state. Slightly concerned about the training areas myself. I didn't see anything about the control tower. Did you find out where that's going?
Just incredible. Building a new intl airport with just ONE RUNWAY and second not to be finished till 2050. Are they serious/ Singapore has two runways, London HTW has two, Schipol Amsterdam has two and now a brand new sydney airport will have ONE for 2026. There is no future planning there. Two runways ought have been default for 2026. Poor planning for the future. If a small city state of 5 million, Singapore can have the best airport on the planet with 2 runways, then Sydney is just lazy, backward and inept. Yep.
💯% Correct !! As usual leave it to the Polies to get it Wrong !?!?
Planes flying over my area 24/7 I HATE IT
Kurt from SydSquad 🎉
You know if construction on any hangers has started yet??
Great job on this one, very interesting. I used to fly the Robin 2160 out in that airspace too!
You've always been greater than those other channels Stef! 👊🧑✈
Why didn't they expand Bankstown airport to accommodate larger planes etc?
No room as it is surrounded by residential and light commercial suburbs; also it would have been subject to curfew because its in the middle of suburbia.
As an international visitor I will still much rather come in through Kingsford Smith, even when the metro opens at western Sydney. For me the journey time counts getting into the CBD. I will chose flights that accommodate the current airports opening times, they suit me.
Even for domestic travellers onto international flights I couldn’t imagine flying into here and flying the next leg out of Kingsford smith
@@Sporty12boy Those are teething issues with any new "secondary airport." Mind you, I dont know how many people outside of rural areas (accounting for 13% of australias population) would actually need to fly into Sydney in order to fly internationally. Given most cities outside of Canberra have flights out to Asia, and from asia you can go basically anywhere.
Any ideas on how they will get the fuel there? Apparently there is no plans in place for a pipeline and trucking a few million litres a day would be a totally rediculous concept for a supposedly international standard airport.
We spoke briefly about this. The fuel line is being economically and environmentally assessed but to start with fuel will be trucked in. The decision on a fuel line is a huge one and there is a team dedicated just to monitoring and assessing that.
A thoroughly enjoyable video and channel. Keep it up, would be great to start an early petition to get EYZ to perform the first landing 💪☘️
05 and 23 are very familiar to me - both are Wellington (WLG) and Queenstown (ZQN) runways in NZ. Will definitely have to add WSI to the list in 2026/7. Great to see you back in the saddle, so to speak. The barren airport visits you made during Covid were almost haunting in their absence of activity.
Wellington rwy is 34/16
It would be incredible to see EYZ being the first to land there. Who usually gets the privilege with other airport openings?
Traditionally a local Or national airline.
I'm super excited once this airport finishes. Just imagine: no more curfews flying in or out of Sydney! Thanks for this Stef!
No worries, thanks for watching.
2:07 "should be about a 45 minute drive ... HELICOPTERS!" Lol, love it!
Hopefully qatar airways gets more slots finally!
I'm a die hard fan of aviation. I just did a 2000+km round trip for the Avalon airshow and went all 3 days... but this airport and its lack of curfew is one of the driving factors that is steadily pushing me to leave Sydney. Its frighteningly expensive to live in, becoming steadily overcrowded and there is not a whole heap to do if you're not a tourist. Still a very interesting video Stef! Keep it up
P.S. I am also wondering what's going to happen to the G.A. training area as I want to get my PPL
Thanks xbrules, hope you had a good time at the airshow as well.
@Stefan Drury by the end I was tired, sunburnt and deaf from all the fun... I'll definitely be back in 2025!!!
Not a lot to do in Sydney, if you live out near the new WSI then yes there is nothing out there, that's not reflective of Sydney, there are thousands of things to do if you are reasonably close to the CBD, WSI area is not close to anything
@@-PORK-CHOP- What are all those things to do in the CBD? The place shuts at 5pm. Have a look at the bridge and the Opera House? There's a couple of hours, what then? There are a million acres of world heritage national park half an hour drive from Badgerys Creek. Sydney CBD is tired.
Gosh.
Brisbane airports desperately need to be relocated also. Despite what they try, noise pollution etc will always remain rampant where it is and only get worse. But no politicians yet have the guts to do the right thing and get the ball rolling with relocation plans. It will happen eventually, there is no real other option. The extremely valuable airport lands near the city center where it currently is, when sold, would more that cover the cost of a super airport in the Brisbane valley on the Toowoomba side of Brisbane.
Can't see that happening. That would be billions upon billions of current and future earnings plus the train line.
They can’t even afford the Olympics...
Can't wait to fly in the next few years :)
Lol let's build a huge airport miiles from the city with great 'on paper' transport options... I'm sure it will work..
Just like Avalon..... oh, wait..... hmmm lol. They say Aussie has little top end corruption lol
Weird that departure gates are at ground level
nice
Transport between the two airports is the issue, Currently its being setup as a round-about route.....or an expensive tolled route. Like Avalon and Tullermarine, you need to pick your airports and hope you can transfer easily if required.
WSI will start as a small airport for those based in Western Sydney with a small number of flights duplicating those at SYD or wanting to take back of clock flights (maybe NZ or Asia)
If you want to transfer in Australia (and that's pretty minimal) you do it at SYD.
There really is no need for a connection between the airports.
@@mark123655 Even as it expands internationally, you would basically be forced to make transfers within WSI.
In 1957 I worked at The Australian Head Office of DCA 'The Department of Civil Aviation' (now CASA) in Melbourne. Regarding a future airport for Sydney. Badgerys Creek Airport plans for future construction were already in the wings. A future Melbourne airport was still being planned (esp for Concorde + 747 with 12,000 foot runways) with a number of sites under consideration. Ultimately Tullamarine was chosen. Further into the future two extra airports would be needed. One in Melbourne's south east and one in the south west. Importantly. There were to be flight lines with ZERO CURFEWS at any future Airports. (Avalon was not yet even a concept being later built by 'The Dept of Supply for USAF U2 spy planes.) Thanks Stef for your fascination aviation content.
This project was originally planned to start 30 years ago, and it should have gone ahead back then. Protests by local residents as well as petty NSW state politics meant the can got kicked down the road. Instead, Sydney Kingsford Smith International went from two runways (perpendicular design - 07/25, shorter, and 16/34 longer) to three (another runway 16/34 added in parallel to the original longer runway was opened in 1994 to handle extra capacity).
The single runway, 05/23 at WSI is a bit odd, but I did read that the plan is for all Asia-bound and west-destined flights to depart from there as well as schedules outside of Sydney's curfew time frame, while eastern flights, like to the US and NZ, will continue to fly out of YSSY. Time will tell whether this will be adhered to.
FYI SYW wouldn't have worked because there are rules around airports in close proximity that share codes that are close in nature. IIRC, that's why Washington Dulles had to change from DIA (Dulles International Airport) to IAD (meaningless, other than a scrambling of the original name), because it was near DCA and one letter off wasn't acceptable.
Modern aircraft have quieter engines to reduce operating noise Unfortunately, many of the aircraft using the new airport will be 35 to 50 years old. Did you know that the Government (via Air Services Australia) mechanically checks every aircraft when it first enters the country. Then it is up to the owner's discretion. Cars have to get a pink slip each year if they are over 3 years old. Planes 50 years old are NOT required to be checked. Not looking forward to this airport
Seems like the new airport was just announced a little while ago and, with the snap of fingers, the tarmac and terminals are already well on their way to being finished! Amazing!
Hope to fly into WSI when I return to my hometown in 2026 from California.
Maybe the Western Sydney Metro will be up and running by then too!
Western Sydney Airport will be great for freight, but lets be serious, even as Aviation fans, the best way from Syd-Mel or Syd-Brs should be via HSR. This will delay that national building project.
Hopefully YWSI has a cat 3a ILS...... Embarrassing for Sydney that KS could never accept auto lands for the few days a year they need them.......
how do all? i wonder how many pilots, [ de cressney, etc ], were invited to the planning processing prelims ], probably none. taztez storemen would know heaps about location
just imagine how an ambo station would work heaps better if they're involved in planning process.
i was taught tech d. by a brother who won highest honours coming through sydney uni. plus after first 12 months storeman was made stock location manager when 17. taztez
The Metro->Cityrail change-trains is really unacceptable. Need dedicated express train WSI -> SYD -> Central We need a normal Rail. Leppington station is 40min from the existing airport on the current train and you could easy extend the line and run an express in possibly 40 minutes.
"We now have a channel which is at the same status, if not greater than, channel 7, channel 9 and the ABC"
Well, I don't watch any of those channels (even though I live near Sydney), but I'm watching yours. Make of that what you will 😉
Me thinketh any chance of finding some of these., freeloading Jolly 'ol's some.........honest work!@!?😜😝🤪😎
I'm just wondering if cargo runners can run cargo out to Aircraft without worrying about pushbacks...🤔
P.S W.S.I is better than U.S.I
Was that Curt/Kurt from SydSquad ?!
Yes! 5:10 The highlight of the video! 👈🏻