First Plane Lands at Sydney's NEW Airport!

INSIDE the new Western Sydney International Airport. Watch the first plane landing on the brand new runway. See the new terminal arrivals and departures areas, gates, airbridges, and watch the test aircraft landing from next to the runway.
Thanks to Western Sydney International Airport for giving me such great access to the airport and runway environment to make this update video.
More about me and my adventures: stef747.com
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[@ronvorbach1464]

Thank you for your coverage especially showing us a little of inside. Regardless of what negative comments are made about the outside I think the inside will be mind blowing.

[@Mat-u9s]

We want viewing areas!! Please, Sydney resident here

[@F14-talktomegoose]

soulds like a good reason to build a tower - for viewing !

[@Leo-hv9mm]

Typical Sydney resident attitude

[@RUHappyATM]

@@F14-talktomegoose KSI had a viewing area within the terminal, without having to go through immigration. IIRC, it was above the departure area.

[@amcconnell6730]

Of all the airports I park at in Europe (I'm an A320 pilot), the best ones have reflective glass infront of the aircraft at the gate, angled a bit, so that sitting in the cockpit I can see the aircraft in the window reflection. Not to look at the aircraft so much, but to monitor the bag loading, refuelling, servicing etc. (Amsterdam is the best for this). It's probably a bit late to mention as I doubt they'll redesign the windows now....

[@cappuccino_please]

Have you been to Frankfurt and how are the windows there? I heard Frankfurt is very modern, with the de-icing station etc.

[@amcconnell6730]

@@cappuccino_please No, I don't fly to Frankfurt. My wife does, but she flies business jets, not airliners.

[@VanTran-ne4yf]

I found all the major airport similar design for passengers, turn the place into a shopping centre. it look like came from the same architecture company which they lack the innovation and ideas instead of a relax place waiting for the next flight

[@Nazannex]

@@amcconnell6730 Wait, both you AND your wife are pilots? How does that work 😅

[@amcconnell6730]

@@Nazannex Ships in the night sometimes. :)

[@andrewmackaybryan]

Sensational update and congratulations on achieving this milestone!

[@downunderdave5417]

Nice Update thanks

[@ozzy1280]

Great update. It's exciting seeing things moving so quickly inside!

[@MrJames_1]

That's awesome getting two firmly official agreements in place. Spotting area (with aircon and expresso machine) and Stef being the first GA aircraft to land. Gonna need a smaller aero-bridge tho I suppose.

[@becsterbrisbane6275]

Brilliant video Stef, great tour! I don't know how I feel about no control tower either.....there really is something to be said for actual visuals if things really do happen to go wrong, and they will from time to time. Wouldn't want to be locked away in a room without actually seeing out and manually having to direct if needed.

[@IvanProsper]

I literally looked up the channel 4 hours ago to check for new vids in case i'd missed one by accident... and here we are

[@kevinheard8364]

Stefan... it's clear that there are over 150,000 of us that care about how you're doing. Stick with it...... and I'll stay subscribed and viewing and commenting.

[@benjibutton7376]

First Love the content Stef!

[@geoffgatward2526]

Hey Stef, Great video as always! On the digital tower though, Canberra will be the first to go live followed by WSI. Airservices gave us YSCB locals a pretty good briefing on the tech and the timelines a couple of weeks ago, I reckon it could be a good topic for a video? I have a copy of the slide deck that they handed out if you are interested and some names at YSCB TWR that might be willing to walk through the plans and maybe give a tour of the new facilities?

[@johnfitzpatrick2469]

G,day Stefan from Sydney. That landing is quite significant for Sydney's transport infrastructure. I think a stamp or coin would be a great way to celebrate. 🇦🇺🌏

[@Norry218]

Awesome update, It has changed a lot since I was there. I'm also not sure about no ATC tower but I suppose lets take that leap into the future. I hope Sam can have enough influence to assure you are the first cirrus to land at WSI.

[@colinpotter7764]

London City have had a digital tower for over 3 years, ATC is provided from a facility 115km away.

[@iamaro]

Love your work Stefan

[@Anthony.248]

love the videos! keep up the amazing work Stef!

[@cromulentparty]

They went with a digital tower partly as a test case for installing one at Kingsford Smith. Airservices want to run everything from Melbourne so they can finally get rid of the Sydney TCU and won't have to replace the current tower which is beyond end of life.

[@sandyhumby88]

Amazing - I was wondering how this new airport was coming along 🙂

[@EliteAussies]

Love the videos!! Been watching you for years, and will continue!! Planes are absolutely BEAUTIFUL!! Fav KZbinr! Love if you could replyyy!! 😁😅

[@StefanDrury]

Thanks for the kind words EA. Good to have you here on the channel.

[@-PORK-CHOP-]

Oh, I though it was missing a Metro station with direct access to Central 🤣🤣😂😂

[@jjcoolaus]

That's coming, you will be able to stay on the same train at St Marys and travel through to central is my understanding

[@peterhoz]

Nothing wrong with 2 trains. That's how most metros work, easy interchange between lines. The Bankstown metro will eventually be extended through Leppington. Similarly the Tallawong will be extended to connect with St Marys. However St Marys to airport is a different setup, voltage and all, so they'll need to convert it if they want to run through trains from Tallawong. Brought to you by the same people who decided that a 24/7 international airport doesn't need a fuel pipeline, trucks will be fine. You're looking at 3 trucks for every 2 planes on average, so there'll be a helluvalot of trucks running out from Botany! Let's hope they don't get caught in their self-made traffic thus delaying the flights. Why does AUS always look for the quick fix, save money on capital but end up with a massive and ongoing operational expense?

[@kadmow]

@@peterhoz - definitely shortsighted...

[@theparks6541]

Imagine thinking everyone who flies to Sydney wants to go to the CBD

[@quarkcypher]

@@theparks6541 You are right. I live over 100kms west of the new airport, so it will be beneficial to people who don't want to go to Mascot.

[@7figuretraveller]

Happy landings

[@oscarwyer2771]

6:01 I thought it was a fence?! 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣

[@GiuseppeBasile]

Brilliant Stef, airport is coming along nicely. Any idea what the first domestic and international flight will be? Going to be hot tickets.

[@bigboy0625]

Manchester Airport by far has the best plane spotters spot in the world.

[@DaveHines1]

Come on Stef , gotta get EYZ in there 😃🍻

[@aussieaircraft]

Lovely work.

[@sebastien79a]

Would have been awesome if they had let you do the landing :) - They still have an opportunity to engage the private pilot community to do a meet-up before operations begin!

[@captainsman]

Looking great. Digital control tower hey...so a CTAF when the network/software goes down.

[@Newlyfound]

Great Video, strange that parts of the airport building already look 30 years old.

[@chrismick4361]

Love the fact you said that you keep asking about EYZ when you see him. The squeaky wheel gets the grease... hopefully. 🤞🏻

[@StefanDrury]

Annoy them into submission, that’s my tactic.

[@grantkingston8955]

Fact check I was flying from that site in the late 90s in a thruster

[@VHMMP]

I flew from there in the early 1990s in a Trike ultralight.

[@ivanb52]

interesting line markings on the apron. is it designed for 1 widebody using 2 bridges or 2 narrow bodies tucked in with one bridge each of the 2 from each pier ?

[@VL3Sim]

Nooo! It wasn’t EYZ 😢. Nice video Stef! 😊

[@StefanDrury]

I know 😢 But I can still be the first with a cow onboard.

[@craigmoy5428]

Swingers gates, I am in!

[@nealbekheetsaliyb2854]

That light aircraft was not the first aircraft to land there. A trainee pilot flight from a Bankstown airport flight schools made an emergency landing at the airport some time back and was partially dismantled for road transport back to Bankstown.

[@BataraKado]

never stop doing the videos im sure you will get your wings back soon @Stefan Drury

[@davidpearn5925]

Funny that Australia's biggest city - Melbourne, doesn't even have a parallel runway yet. It's coming one day apparently.

[@MarkMcLT]

Very cool. I lived in Sydney in the 90's and remember well all the talk about Badgerys Creek that seemed would never go beyond talk. I'm curious what the plan is for surface transportation to the city.

[@milesmayhem]

Me too, I lived in Sydney in the 90's as well and also remember the protests against the 3 runway at Kingsford Smith, the No Aircraft Noise party and the plans for a new airport out at Badgeries . . . .which has taken 30 years to finally come into existence 😮

[@paratyshow]

👍✅Tks Stef👏

[@x-manproductions3278]

8th view :) always enjoy your videos

[@danielharkins174]

Thanks Pom

[@davidhugill4668]

A general aviation one-off fly-in would be great. If not, maybe you can ask ... agitate for ... a GA approach day. When I was flying out of Fairoaks (near London as you'd know), I remember - at least hope my memory still serves me - being told that Heathrow allowed, at least back then, on the quietest day of the year (Christmas Day? New Years Day?) for light aircraft to run an approach and go-around^h^h^h go-away on one of the runways. Would be great if WSA could allow this just once.

[@camerond-x5s]

I'm sure they'd be happy to - for a price! How much for the landing fee? $100? $500?? 🙄

[@optickmedia1281]

I wonder if anyone needs thier ASIC to get in yet, or is it still not not operational enough...

[@Gavin1549-l5e]

Nice! Will there be big planes?

[@julianwang9015]

We have a digital tower here in Fort Collins, colorado fnl

[@the_flying_pivers]

You forgot the USA has a few digital airports! KFNL in colorado is one I have used.

[@rgeismann]

Why not build a tower as an observation platform? :D

[@ronvorbach1464]

Just rent a cherry picker and choose your desired location.

[@spiro5327]

Actually, it may not be EYZ landing because when opening time arrives, Stef could be flying in with his new Vision Jet. Thanks mate

[@StefanDrury]

Haha. Got to make a LOT more KZbin videos before that becomes a reality!

[@DimitriRytsk]

Have they planned to upgrade roads and railway yet? Airport there is like the heart moved from the chest to the arse. ;))

[@johnsavill6238]

ahhhh yes lots of glass at the termial just what you want when its 43c outside

[@j3j326]

Not long till the Airport is complete.

[@F14-talktomegoose]

i remember Badgerys Creek started getting traction in the 1980's .......

[@commodorenut]

So did Wilton, which was tipped to be the preferred site after all the protests and logical arguments against BC.

[@themixstuff1016]

Giving Avalon vibes

[@robinhilliard]

I’m sorry EYZ will be landing AFTER the formation of Victa Airtourers (Western Sydney’s own GA aircraft, built in Wetherill Park and assembled at Bankstown in the 60s) I’m going to rustle up for the opening ceremony :-).

[@theregularnoob]

i drove past 4years ago before contructsion

[@cheng-alvin]

Not EYZ?

[@simiot1]

Be nice if they do a CAT3 ILS as an alternate to SYD. Just saying...

[@SauronsEye]

Get the boys from Sydsquad KZbin channel and others such channels to consult on where to locate viewing platforms. Their product is a visual medium. They'll find the best places to watch from. Oh and you've got have viewing platforms at each end of the runway for that spectacular head on shot and then the French chef kiss moment as the plane goes directly overhead. Make a fake Air Traffic Control (ATC) Tower accessible from the terminal as a viewing area. Mock up of ATC desks and have actual ATC communications piped in over speakers in the viewing area. Could be a focus for school excursions. The plane that had, "engine" trouble. Nice gluasad mate. Will be remembered like the fellow on the Harbour bridge who ducked and weaved the official guests to be the first to cut the ribbon. "Gluasad", is Scottish gaelic for manoeuver and so much easier to spell. I thing we should adopt it as the word from now on.

[@jonkvh]

How many noticed the similarity to Adelaide Airport.

[@Its-NoahBoy]

Yes😊

[@kadmow]

- Am I right in thinking, the GA route North-South (class G west of prospect reservoir ) through western Sydney is GONE, or will be once this new airspace is active...

[@camerond-x5s]

Yep, all gone... Bankstown training area also. Tough for GA, but then the government doesn't care about GA

[@maxwellbenjamin5476]

When will you be flying again ?

[@StefanDrury]

Got an update on that for you all very soon. Thanks for checking in.

[@Paininthrneck]

Need to think a bit more about tourism. Transferring tour groups out to this place ( most groups and individual tourists stay in Sydney CBD)will put at least an extra hour on the trip. The costs in hiring coaches, taxis, ubers etc...will be pretty steep. I say at least an hour as we all know M5 M7 and M4 can be a nightmare at the best of times, no t counting the amount of tolls. Taking a coach out there, or shuttle bus, and then having to race back to the city for another job is going to blow the costs for operators out of the water. These costs will, of course, be passed on. Australia is not only an expensive place to come to but takes a long time to get here. We need to encourage tourists, not sllug them with yet more costs

[@jamesharris9816]

Western Sydney Airport will be used primarily by budget airlines like Jetstar, scoot and Air Asia X. Ill be shocked if you'll ever see a qantas widebody there.

[@Paininthrneck]

@jamesharris9816 oh. Is that a figment of my imagination that Singapore are already committed to it. This will open the floodgates for airlines who want to do a quick turnarounds rather than park overnight seeing as it's 24 hour. You can bet airlines like QATAR and Emirates will be out there doing midnight departures. QANTAS are already committed to setting up a terminal . I reckon ANZ will love some early departures as well.

[@jamesharris9816]

@@Paininthrneck Emirates and Qatar will do it if they get australian govt approval for more flights but I'll be shocked if they move existing capacity from YSSY. YSSY is a business hub and airlines like Qantas who's bread and butter is business class travel will not shift from YSSY. You may see QF move some Asian routes that are tourist based with little or no business travel such as SYD-BKK/MNL to appease regulators. I see all those QF flight numbers change to JQ anyway. Watch Qantas commitment turn into a Jetstar terminal. Asian budget carriers like Scoot and Air Asia X will move. Some new ones may arrive also unless they get slugged massive landing fees. Legacy carriers like Malaysian, Thai and Singapore may move one flight (the late arrival which stays overnight) over to Badgerys but I feel that Singapore will take a hit in their business class sales. They just dumped Canberra as they thought they could get a slice of that government business travel which didn't happen (wonder why). Also think about transfer options especially to regional centres. I don't forsee regional leaving syd unless forced to. Just look at who comes and goes out of YMML after 11:00pm to 6:00am and they're the ones who will take advantage of Badgerys. Cargo ops will move lock stock and barrel out of YSSY. Cargo ops out of Bankstown will also stop which may make Bankstown financially vulnerable

[@motha_trucker]

great so now we need to fly further out around orange to bypass sydney and avoid controlled airspace

[@jamesharris9816]

When this becomes a white elephant, watch them attempt to close YSBK and YSCN and move GA to Badgerys.

[@martinmckowen1588]

I landed there in a helicopter about 20 years ago!!!

[@DavidBromage]

Ballina will get digital ATC and a remote tower before Western Sydney.

[@Randomgold88]

They've already built the camera tower in Canberra

[@gavinsullivan9015]

What are the links to central Sydney? I’m in Newy so I’m not sure it’ll help me for access 😢

[@quarkcypher]

Metro line is being built from the new airport to St Marys station. Change at St Marys for a Sydney trains or intercity service to the Sydney CBD.

[@gavinsullivan9015]

@ interesting looks like an hour and half by car to Sydney. Long way out…

[@commodorenut]

It has to be the most pathetically thought out rail infrastructure project Australia has ever seen. Worse than using 3 different gauges across neighbouring states. At present I’m 35 minutes on 1 train from Kingsford Smith. If Badgerys Creek gets the flights I take, it will be 3 trains + a metro, and literally doing 3 sides of a square to get there. Just the 3 trains will be over 90 minutes and I don’t know what the metro will take. Leppington station is one of the closest locations to WSAP, why don’t the just extend the heavy rail tracks into there? It would open up a huge corridor for passenger movements back into the heart of Sydney (or to Kingsford Smith) and take many cars from the south and south west off the roads. But no, they rather build more toll roads for their buddies to rake in more cash from those who can least afford it.

[@ronvorbach1464]

@@commodorenut Ideally it would be suitable to extend Mascot`s rail line direct through Glenfield to WSI. Alas I`m am just an old timer and what would I know?

[@commodorenut4238]

@@ronvorbach1464 That's exactly what I was referring to. They already have heavy rail from Mascot to Leppington (change at Glenfield) and it would be a simple task to extend Leppington to BC if it's done now, before development wipes out all the corridors. It would open up the entire south west to WSIA, via train. It would also be far simpler to send tourist into Sydney on one train, with no changes, which could easily be achieved that way. At present someone in Leppington needs to do almost a full circle via Glenfield, Parramatta & St Marys, back to BC, taking over 90 minutes, to travel what would ideally be just 15km of track (as the crow flies) if Leppington were linked. But the NSW Govt is hell bent on freezing out the SW and W (except to fly planes over), in order to spend NSW money on the NW suburbs. If they cared about the west then Tallawong would already be linked to St Marys. Before the line was finished, the member (the guy who replaced Parrot-tay) was campaigning at Castle Hill one day, and someone said to him "I heard you don't want to link Tallawong to St Marys because your constituents don't want the westie bogans riding on their new NW metro." He was lost for words. There's likely some plausible substance behind that claim....

[@prussiaaero1802]

"Remote Tower" run by Airservices. What can possibly go wrong!

[@jamesharris9816]

Safety is their first priority...so they say.

[@ronvorbach1464]

Bankstown flight tower was closed years ago and the service there is done by Mascot.

[@camerond-x5s]

The first and last GA aircraft to land at WSA!

[@jamesharris9816]

Don't bet on it. Developers have been eyeing off YSBK and YSCN for years. They may move its all to this place when there are only 20 movements a day after 5 years

[@jadeng1147]

Twin Comanche mentioned! WTF IS A SAFE VMC DEMO🦅🦅🦅🦅⁉⁉⁉⁉

[@gabebabe1]

No control tower - lunacy.

[@brendanbayer5002]

😮the local councils and developers will screw up the fact that there's 24/7 operations by building residential all around...

[@jamesharris9816]

Eventually this will happen.

[@ronvorbach1464]

Lets face it, that is what happened to Mascot and all those noise protests at Mascot just prior to it becoming privet. Really , protests all of a sudden ?

[@davidrawles5732]

Not enough air bridges only 13 for a airport that size

[@arandomperson920]

I don't like the idea of digital control tower. It sounds rather dangerous in an event of loss of power ect.

[@Randomgold88]

There is a lot of back ups for it. London city airport runs on a digital control tower and i haven't heard of any issues

[@JarvisDevonDariel-nv3io]

i think someone landed there before for an engine failure.

[@OVTraveller]

A great performance by a non government organisation, but how come you weren't in control of that light plane , Stefan

[@asjeot]

Western Sydney Airport Corporation (WSA Co) is a government-owned entity. It's a wholly-owned company of the Australian Government, established to manage and oversee the development of the Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport.

[@OVTraveller]

@@asjeotI was talking about the construction company?

[@ronvorbach1464]

@@asjeot Thus will future government consider selling this off to fund more election winning votes.

[@asjeot]

@@OVTraveller ok, it wasn't clear from your comment.

[@gibbo_303]

lol there is barely any point to using a digital control tower, only benefit is that control tower staff will not have to travel as far, there are many down sides though which include the equipment being more expensive, the electricity being more expensive, maintenance being more expensive, more prone to failures and most importantly, its not as safe as you cannot hear your surroundings if you are not there and controllers do not get a sense of depth, cameras are also never as good as the human eye so they might have issues seeing planes that are far away

[@jasonwalandouw]

I'm sure the Government of the day will grant the people's request of a plane spotting viewing area like they have done in YSSY Aka Sydney Kingsford Smith, wont they premier! 😂🎉❤

[@Crypt_AU]

The pet resting area kinda triggers me a little and I don't totally understand why

[@jasonswift7098]

Wow no curfew! those poor people who live in the houses at either ends of the runways. Who is nancy Bird Walton?

[@amcconnell6730]

I guess with cameras running a digital control tower service it would be nice to stream the camera views for the spotter community. A bit like Big Jet TV (who stream landings during storms)....

[@ronvorbach1464]

I would assume to much chance of Hackers and HACKERS COULD BE AN ISSUE WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE.

[@mxyzptlyk]

In the early outside shots, there was a Piper of sorts behind Stefan before the "first" plane lands.

[@DanFrederiksen]

Just do it, why wait for permission, they are just going to say no :)

[@allanjones4800]

Emirates

[@cmtelobo1146]

Incredibly small airport

[@jamesharris9816]

6 years to build it too.

[@josephking6515]

If they had given the job to the Wagner family there would been International flight running out of there two years ago. Wellcamp anyone....took 18 months and 747 Freighters land there.

[@jamesharris9816]

Yep.

[@VanTran-ne4yf]

The biggest loser of Sydney New Airport will be people from Wollongong and Newscatle. It will take them 4 hours to the airport. If they have morning flight before 12 or land in Sydney after 6pm , they have to stay overnight in Sydney which cost them extra at leat $100 dollar for the hotel. that why it took the government so long to decide where to build the new airport, but they have no choice

[@jamesharris9816]

People from Wollongong or Newcastle will still be going to the current sydney airport.

[@VanTran-ne4yf]

@jamesharris9816 All the budget airline T Sydney new airport. I don't think people from Wollongong and Newscastle willing to pay full fare for oversea trips like Jetstar not Virgin or Qantas

[@ronvorbach1464]

People out this way have that problem with going to Mascot. If need to check in by 11am,you need to leave this area at 4 am or get caught heavy in traffic.

[@dwykejack1279]

That pilot did not maintain his centre line 🤪just saying Stef, think you could of done a better job than him 👍

[@daviddou1408]

Except it wasn't the first, 10 Dec 2020 the first.

[@grantkingston8955]

There was an ultralight field where the terminal is ever since the land was acquired for the new airport in the 80s it only closed when construction began

[@BruceMorley-w2u]

Tindal in the Northern Territory was the first digital air traffic control system in the world 8n the mid 1980s. Bruce

[@BruceMorley-w2u]

Mid 1980s

[@peterhoz]

It is actually missing a fuel pipeline. All the jet fuel will be driven by truck from Mascot/Botany. Ridiculous. Brought to you by the same LNP people who decided that a copper NBN was better than a fibre one, so they built copper then are now upgrading much of it to fibre thus paying for it twice!

[@phanoonki]

That is crazy. Purposeful inadequacy

[@jamesharris9816]

The unions want jobs for the truckies.

[@cozzo734]

I cannot understand why a 24/7 airport is being built amongst rapidly growing Sydney Suburbia. What moron in a suit and tie thought that was a great idea? The existing airport has a curfew because it is amongst suburbia, probably less because it is on the coast. Why do the people of western Sydney not have the same respect directed towards them?

[@edgaritjust37]

Slight misleading title...

[@sarahthompson2636]

1 runway? seriously?

[@MikeDudley-b4b]

Too much talkin' heads.

[@costad9844]

I feel sorry for everyone in Penrith living under the flight path. This was the wrong location for an airport but this country is run by stupid bureaucrats.

[@hamishwilson4927]

You're a flog

[@williambyast7791]

Do they have a Muslim prayer room!

[@johnthurn1559]

What a joke…..it’s already been built for yesterday….where’s a second runway….where are the extra aerobridges like an extra 20 or so. Do Australians realise how backward we are? I started flying 50 years ago and remain embarrassed. Appropriate for a twin Comanche to land at the new airport.

[@hershalkrostofsky825]

Whine much? Look at future expansion plans for your runways, bridges etc. Its a second airport, not a replacement. The only joke is the ignorant naysayers.