FIRST LOOK at Sydney's Brand New Airport!
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- Опубликовано: 7 мар 2023
- 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 RUclips 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"
That's me, bringing you all the exclusives.
Interesting information
I hate it when they put roofs on the bottom.
@@rinzler9775 It's down under, No ? 🤔😮🤓
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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.
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.
The first time a second Sydney airport was discussed was 1949, glad to see it finally coming together
5:56 this has got to be the best engineer I’ve ever seen. Utter genius.
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.
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.
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..
Great video! I don't know why, but my favorite part was "The roof's going on top, obviously. That's where roofs go." 😆
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!
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.
An instant like, then settling back to watch. Nice one Stefan. 👍
Thanks Laz, I appreciate that.
2:07 "should be about a 45 minute drive ... HELICOPTERS!" Lol, love it!
Thanks Stef! Nice tour of the new airport!
You deserved this mate, I'm so proud on how great your channel grew. Hope to se EYZ flying here soin
Loving the old TransPerth Bus at the start of the video
Nice Video Stef, excited how WSI will look.
So I am taking it you are in Sydney now.
Good to hear about your channel.
All the best.
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.
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.
Great job on this one, very interesting. I used to fly the Robin 2160 out in that airspace too!
Very insightful!! tysm!!
great content, thanks stef
Yes! We need to see the infamous EYZ fly into the new WSI. 😎🙌🛩
If you manage to be the first plane to land at WSI I'll come over from the UK to watch!
You've always been greater than those other channels Stef! 👊🧑✈
Looks great!🙌
Thank You!
Great vid as always keep it up
Thanks Brandon
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!
Kurt from SydSquad 🎉
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.
I too got quite sunburned at Avalon on Sunday with the mere mortals..
Great Vid 👍
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.
awesome
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 💪☘️
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.
In other news Sydney renames itself Sidney!
Hey!! Nice job down there people.
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!
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
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! 😉
When I saw this, your video had 125K Views and you had 125K Subscribers. Now you are +1 in both.
I drive past this weekly on the northern road it's interesting to see how much progress has been made.
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.
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.
amazing things in The World!
Nice
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 🇧🇷
Great video and it looks amazing and also how was the Melbourne air show
Can't wait to fly in the next few years :)
Unreal mate. Love your accent too - great heritage in UK and Oz. Heaps of support on your channel and thanks to the GWS airport. Dunedin and Launceston airport are so picturesque.
I'm a student helicopter pilot flying out of Bankstown airport and I've done some training over this new airport a couple of times. It's been interesting to see its construction from an aerial perspective.
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
nice
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.
Great video, and WSI does look impressive. You mentioned you did your training in Bankstown, which flight school did you use?
I totally forgot there was a New Airport Coming!! Can't wait to watch man
Thanks Lachlan
I remember they were talking about this when i lived there in the 90s.
there was a lot of controversy as i recall.
I always wondered why no one talked about building at Windsor in the north west where there was already a military airbase that was being closed down.
That airbase kept getting flooded, so they decided not to build it there
Smile everyone! What a crack up. G'day Sam!
I saw EYZ last weekend at YSBK and you were at Avalon airshow apparently it is someelse flying EYZ then
I really like the Mantra at Sydney Airport too.
So who is going to use this airport? As a tourist to Sydney I like taking the short trip into the CBD from SYD.
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.
Stones came from Tunnels being built in Sydney by Westconex to lay down on the airstrip.
The only thing that worries me and you may have answered it , what is the connection for passengers between WSI and SYD.
enjoy the low flying air traffic over the blue mountains.
Thanks for showing us the Experience Centre. It is brill how much has ben completed already.
Not going to lie. I'll be disappointed if I don't get that experience of flying in over Botany Bay in the future coming in from the UK. It always gives me that magical feeling of being home.
There's just something magical about that landing path as a passenger. It won't be the same flying into WSI. But if it helps to lower the cost of flying into Sydney at the moment, then it'll be welcomed!
I can’t wait - I am under the current flight path. If it diverts even a few flights from here, I will be very happy.
@@brontewcat I feel bad for the inner west lol
@@ToadmcNinja It was pretty good during the lockdowns. Alas not so much now😉
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?”…
Ohhh nice, we're not too far from the new airport... how exciting! Great work to you all
Wait for the noise you wont believe it shake your house to bits and good luck sleeping.
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.
WSI is breaking news to me. Wow! I'm in the US and haven't heard about this exciting new project.
Thanks for the cool mini-documentary!
When I did my PPL back in 1990 I'd fly west out of Bankstown to Hoxton Park, out to Warragamba then down to Camden. Badgery's was direct on the flight path out to Hoxton [not there anymore] so I guess the new Bankstown training area will be around Camden somewhere. So do not want to be getting tangled in a primary flight zone.
Thanks for a very entertaining and informative video Stef as always. So I imagine the ICAO identifier will be YWSI?
Yeah I was curious about the ICAO code too but that's not been confirmed yet.
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?
The sheds at 9:35 & 9:38 look like the Bringelly chicken sheds that we used as reference points with the Royal Aero Club of NSW back in the day. I wonder if the old Hoxton Park rwy is discernible these days?
Unfortunately no - truck warehouses.
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.
good job old chap
AWSOME! what airport do you like more? the new one or the old one in Sydney
I wander what's going to happen to the GA training area they have over there Stef
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?🤔
Aw cute Syney will be allowed to stay awake late at night and play with the big boys in Melbourne
FYI there was an aircraft that landed there couple years ago. Piper Warrior II
4:30 Ground floor is for departure 2nd floor is for arrival? That is surprised me！
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.
That's my sign to start learning at Bankstown now, before they have to move the air space somewhere else.
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
A point of clarification, Avalon is Geelong.
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.
SYW would be my first guess as well, but looks like it is already taken (Sehwan Sharif Airport, SYW)
05/23 is also the main runway direction for ADL
Stefan, they going been metro train from St Mary's station to airport and beyond
i wonder how many WHSmith will be in the airport, maybe like 10 in each terminal like melb has now.
Great excitement about the IATA code WSI. But what about the ICAO code??? What's the four letter code? YSWS? YSSW?
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!
As a passenger I actually like it if no planes can start at night. I do not really want to leave or arrive at 3am.
And Melb still no train
The time to get to this airport will be longer than your trip to Europe. It really is in the middle of nowhere! I will use Kingsford Smith!