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A view of the completed terminal and runway at Western Sydney International Airport. (Image: WSI)
Opinion: WSI is no white elephant
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Listen – do you hear that creaking noise? That’s the sound of Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport straining at its seams. For more than 100 years, it’s been the only commercial airport of any real significance serving the Sydney metropolitan area, and it’s still the busiest in the country, handling more than 40 million passengers in 2023–24. As those numbers continue to swell, however, the airport will inevitably hit a problem: running out of room.
Sydney Airport is constrained in more ways than one: not just by the overnight curfew and by the hourly cap of 80 aircraft movements, but geographically, as well. Hemmed in on all sides by suburbia and the waters of Botany Bay, there’s just not a whole lot of room for the airport to grow outwards and keep up with growing demand.
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