The news comes despite earlier promises that new flightpaths would reduce disruption for locals by allowing aircraft to take off over the bay at night.
A pilot program to allow international students to fly into Australia will begin in September, Trade Minister Simon Birmingham has announced.
Virgin Australia has said it will fly from Newcastle to Brisbane three times a week, despite Queensland shutting its border to NSW.
Sydney Airport’s domestic passenger traffic doubled in July, due to three-weeks when there was unrestricted travel between NSW, Victoria and Queensland.
Around 15 people worked on the 14-month project, which replaces an existing taxiway north of the terminal that was first built in the 1940s.
An enterprise agreement between Swissport and its workers has been ripped up, after the TWU and ASU won an appeal against an earlier Fair Work Commission ruling.