Australia's New Western Sydney Airport Is a Logistical Nightmare 

I remember when I was young, hearing people saying the Sydney Opera House project would never be finished. I hope they felt embarrassed.

This was such a bizarre video…

The information in this video is out of date by a long shot. Whilst the oil pipeline is still subject of a discussion as to a preferred route, there is a motorway link between the airport site and Ampol's oil terminal at Kurnell. As for the rail link, it has been approved by the NSW Government and construction has begun. Both the rail line and the M12 Motorway will be complete by the time the airport is due to open.

What a strange video. A delayed pipeline, a metro train line within a few years of opening and a current squabble about funding for bus connections doesn't mean it will be anywhere near a white elephant. The worst, the pipeline, will be constructed. It's fine.

The fuel pipeline not withstanding, this video needs to be fact checked throughout. It’s just plain wrong!

Slight fact correction. Sydney Airport is not Australia's largest. Bad fact checking here..... it's actually extremely small and in fact, it's the smallest of any of the state capital airports in Australia. What this video meant to say is that it is Australia's busiest airport. The size comes down to two simple issues. Age and location. The current Sydney International Airport is actually the oldest continually operating international airport. It's second in pure age to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. This should not be a surprise given that both the Netherlands and Australia share very early trans-continental history with the Dutch national carrier KLM being the oldest airline and the Australian national carrier Qantas, being the longest continually operating airline (3rd oldest after KLM and Avianca). Australia was also the first country to have both a National Airline and Air Force. When the airport was built, it was in a rural area. But today, that rural area is only 5km from the CBD (downtown) of Sydney. To put that in perspective, if the edge of Sydney Airport was the Empire State building, the centre of Sydney would be the new World Trade Centre. Sydney needs a second airport. The biggest issue is that Sydney is hemmed in by rivers and mountains. Very early in its development, governments quickly stepped in to convert as much of the land as possible into parklands and national parks. Sydney is home to the second oldest national park in the world, and has almost 50% of the land protected which adds to what makes it such a liveable city. The urban spawl has moved around national parks but has left almost no place for a second airport. Thankfully the government is not shy in spending money. The airport will receive a train line not too long after the airport is built, and well before the airport traffic is ramped up. It won't be perfect to start with, but I expect the metro projects will soon see frequent express services. Metro projects going on in Sydney are collectively twice as large as London's Crossrail project, taking most of the engineers and designers from those projects.

What's exactly wrong with the metro? As of now, the metro ends at St Marys, which has a direct train link to the CBD (where most visitors would be headed). Cannot see an issue with this.

So many errors in this video unfortunately!

The site was earmarked for the second airport by the NSW Department of Planning back in the late 1960s. Until recently the airline lobby blocked the project from being built to force the constant expansion of Kingsford Smith Airport. When KSA was privatised the monopoly operators price gouged airport users to an extent that the airline lobby allowed the building of Western Sydney Airport to go ahead.

LOL "curfew free" I guarantee, when those planes start taking off and landing in that area- not far from the foot of the mountains- which will give those jet engine decibels something to bounce off and echo over Western Sydney. It'll impact everyone west of Kingsford Smith.

I would be more concerned about Multiplex being the builder. They are no exactly renowned in bringing megaprojects to completion on time and under budget. My biggest issue with Western Sydney International is how long before the airport gets hemmed in by industrial development like Kingsford Smith and Perth Airport, amongst others. Given the cost of the airport and all the new infrastructure proposed, it would probably have been cheaper just to buy up the property around the existing airport and do a complete redevelopment of the rabbit warren of current terminals and probably ask Qantas to kindly move their maintenance facility somewhere else that was less busy.

The major Flaw in this western Sydney Airport is . In the 1980's the flight paths were not confirmed. NOISE was an issue ,The peoples choice then was not Badgery's creek. But Politicians conveniently have Not talked about this now, to fast tracked project. Runways built, Terminal on the way, Contracts for the useless Short shuttle metro line and toll way connections developed. So this site will impact the greatest number of Western Sydney residents with aircraft having to take off and land Mainly OVERNIGHT. To make international connections in SIN,KL and HNK So, Urban growth Land use planning ignored the Flight paths So this was not factored into the massive new suburbs where 1/3 of Sydney's population with be subject to aircraft noise 24/7.

Penrith is pronounced with emphasis on the first syllable in Australia (PEN-r’th).

@3:42 aussie airport, Shows American currency.... Riiiiiiight 👌

CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE NEW AIRPORT COMPLETED❤❤❤

What a load of crock Build huge fuel tanks have trucks transport and fill tanks over night and not during peak times This airport IS WHAT THE WEST NEEDS

Why no mention that there are many local workers nearby that do not want to commute across Sydney to work. Also enabling transport efficiency of air, road and rail for freight, the workforce and travellers means productivity across multiple viewpoints. I suppose providing jobs and economic value is not relevant to some critics. Get real, please we dont need such biased commentary there is too much in society already.

This is a rubbish beat up

The time to get to this airport will be longer than your trip to Europe. It really is in the middle of nowhere! It will service the cheap bucket airlines which means the travelers coming through here will not spend money and will try and transit as soon as possible to the CBD. I will use Kingsford Smith!

I wonder how long before they selloff the surrounding land to companies wanting air transportation. Then selling off surrounding land to housing developers for employees to live closer. 🤔 Then introducing flight path curfews… 😂

Could you imagine a family of tourists with large baggage and kids to keep in check trying to catch a bus to there final destination. Could you imagine a group of elderly travellers walking 500m to 1000m or more from there plane to catch a train. Could you imagine a tourist that landed at Western Sydney Airport catching 3 trains to link with a connecting flight at Kingsford Smith Airport or better yet a bus on the M5 and M5 at 7am. Could you imagine trying to get to Western Sydney Airport from Campbelltown by train. 4 trains that is and 3hours plus travel time plus waiting 3 hours for a flight. The government couldn't plan to turn a tap on. It was $8Bil then $11Bil, What is the actual cost to tax payers? Incomplete rail, no sustainable fuel supply, no accommodation nearby for the volume of travellers and flight crews, no public transport even planned. What an absolute joke.

Roads are getting built and a lot of mega factories are getting built to accommodate the ever increasing demand from supplier chains as well as a lot of companies moving out that way.

The transport should meet up with the Campbelltown line so you get from one airport to the other

The Federal government has pulled its funding for the road infrastructure to the new airport. The State can't afford to build the roads without that funding. How will the road links get built? By a massive new toll road for 100 years.

Badgery Creek had been designated for the second airport since the mid 70s, never thought it would get started until the LIBs found a way to get some money for their mates ($10M block of land sold for $30M - well done you crooks) But at least they did start the thing

Pollution will shut it down most days - due to thermal inversions - creating pollution locked in from all over Sydney with Western Sydney pollutions of Industrial Economy reliance. LNP FAILURE as USUAL=Business as usual.

Everything in Sydney is expensive

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Where should you built the second airport than? Tell me! Kingsford Smith will definitely reach its capacity soon!

Need a high speed train corridors. Bradfield to Sydney CBD Bradfield to Canberra Bradfield to Wollongong Bradfield to Newcastle Bradfield to Bathurst These are just few backbone lines. The train’s speed should be around 300km/h to be efficient Metro is too slow and only efficient within reasonable distance say 8-15 km’s. Anything further than that needs limited stops suburban trains.

Fuel by daily trucks and no transport ready in time ! … how friggin stupid and embarrassing can it be .

2050 for a 2nd Runway….. 😂😂😂 Typical of Australia ! Imagine the cost of building then.

So much of this clip is outdated and just plain wrong. The pipeline issue in particular is complete rubbish. I won't say any more. Good to see so many commenting below have more sense than to believe it.

What has flooding got to do with the project? Metro is well underway!

funny how they built a multi billion dollar airport but totally forgot about the fact that planes need fuel to fly

It's going to end up like Melbourne Avalon in my opinion. Only a few domestic flights a day and large empty terminal

If they lift the curfew on mascot there no need for for this. No political party have the guts to lift the curfew so this is for the benefit of the sitting member of mascot. Grubs

Or it would just become a underutilised airport with just a few domestic flights per day

When this is done, I reckon they are probably gonna have mostly all International flights move here and turn the current airport into a Domestic Airport. I don't like the plans for the Metro, though, as people will just have to change Trains at St Marys. They should've built an Airport Express Train service via Parramatta instead.

Delay caused by pandemic isn't connected to logistical nightmare

Melbourne still doesn't have a rail link and as for the fuel problem it would apply to any new airport built anywhere in the world. The big advantage of the new airport is that there will be no curfew between 11pm and 6am. International flights currently cannot be scheduled for night arrivals in case there is a two or three hour delay. Large numbers of overnight flights also arrive shortly after 6am putting strain on the infrastructure. There is nothing worse than waiting for immigration and customs then taking a train full of commuters into the CBD during the morning peak hour.

Jesus you lost me by minute 2 with the real bad stock photos and videos largely irrelevant plus the previous government photos (we’ve had a new government since early 2022). That’s RU-vid creators for you.

Why are you illustrating American dollars in your presentation?

This is poorly researched and thought out.

Hmm, can anyone say 'Mirabel'?

Nobody seems to worry about the massive fog problem

Takes 2hrs to get to the actual city 💀

This incompetence is normal for Australia look how many housing developments have been built with no infrastructure like roads. They wait until it is finished, people complain about it for years, the Government says it can't afford to do anything yet and eventually many years later they finally build something that will be too little to late, like the M4, then they will screw everyone around for a few more years adding on what should have been done in the first place and then when it is finally done it is not enough because they have kept on expanding new developments. And we end up back at the beginning again. The place is run by idiots.

Totally wrong it will become the number one airport

The new airport in Sydney is going to be awful just like Avalon it is way too far from the CBD. If we ran Mascot more efficiently we wouldn’t need another airport for decades. It’s the same size as Heathrow and they’re able to handle significantly more air movements per annum.

Load of.

Have you seen how far the metro station is from the terminal? It should be un der it! PLUS it is simply a shuttle from St Marys, and will remain that way until at least the 2050s. It should have been built from Tallawong through to Macarthur, with a connection/extension from Luddenham, from day 1 of opening. Car centric Sydney planning yet again. White elephant indeed. It's Sydney's Avalon plus freight services. And, without a freight rail line, all that frieght has to move my truck too. Dumb.

Does not surprise me from a liberal state government,