It will be a historic moment for the first major airport to be built in Australia since Melbourne’s Tullamarine more than 50 years ago.
A plane will land and take off from Sydney’s new international airport for the first time on Wednesday afternoon, in a historic milestone for the aviation hub which is quickly taking shape near the foothills of the Blue Mountains.
It is a little over two years until the first passenger aircraft is due to take off from Australia’s first new major airport since Melbourne’s Tullamarine opened in 1970. Western Sydney Airport chief executive Simon Hickey said the first flight was a significant milestone, and signalled that the curfew-free airport was entering a new phase after years of construction.“We’re moving from being a construction site to being a testing site,” he said. “It certainly is that signal that we’re actually moving towards operations.”
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