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Sydney Airport is one of the world's longest continuously operated commercial airports [7] and is the busiest airport in Australia, handling 42.6 million passengers [8] and 348,904 aircraft movements [9] in 2016–17. It was the 38th busiest airport in the world in 2016.
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1920–30: Early history
Before the airport was built, it was a field for bullocks. Nigel Love, a former World War I pilot, wanted to start building aircraft. He needed to set up a factory and an aerodrome close to the city. He found some land owned by the Kensington Race Club. It had been used by a local abattoir, which was closing down, to graze sheep and cattle. The surface was perfectly flat and was covered with a pasture of buffalo grass. This grass which had been grazed so evenly by the sheep and cattle running...
1930–60
In 1933, the first gravel runways were built. The course of Cooks River was moved away from the area in 1947–52 to provide more land for the airport and other small streams were filled. When Mascot was declared an aerodrome in 1920 it was known as Sydney Airport. In 1953 it was renamed Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport after Charles Kingsford Smith, a pioneering Australian aviator. The first paved runway was 07–25 and the next one built was 16R, sticking out into Botany Bay, starting in 1959,...
1960–2000
By the 1960s a new international terminal was needed, and work started in late 1966. The new building was officially opened on 3 May 1970, by Queen Elizabeth II. The first Boeing 747 "Jumbo Jet" to land at the airport, Pan American's Clipper Flying Cloud (N734PA), arrived on 4 October 1970. In the 1970s the north-south runway was made longer to become one of the longest runways in the southern hemisphere. The international terminal was made bigger in 1992 and has been modernized several times...
Sydney Airport has three passenger terminals. The International Terminal is separated from the other two by a runway. Passengers needing to catch another flight need to allow for longer transfer times. Sydney Airport requires minimum connection times: 1. From domestic flight to domestic flight: 30 minutes 2. From domestic flight to international fl...
Cargo
1. Signage at the entrance to the domestic side of the airport 2. Control tower 3. A Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 and a Korean Air Boeing 747on the tarmac 4. Qantas jet on taxiway with aircraft viewing area and Botany Bay beach in foreground 5. Virgin Australia B737 on the tarmac 6. Qantas A330 taking off 7. Qantas Boeing 747-300landing at the airport
In 1995 the Australian Government passed a law through parliament called "The Sydney Airport Curfew Act". This limits the operating hours of the airport. This was done in an effort to stop complaints about aircraft noise. The curfew disallows aircraft from taking off or landing between the hours of 23:00 and 06:00. However, some special flights are...
Rail
The airport can be reached from the city by the Airport Link underground rail line. The International railway station is under the International terminal, while the Domestic railway station is under the car park between the domestic terminals (Terminal 2 and Terminal 3). While the stations are part of the Cityrailnetwork, they are privately owned and operated by Airport Link. Passengers have to pay a station fee or 'gate fee' of $11.80. This fee is added to the price of the train ticket. The...
Bus
Sydney Buses operates Route 400 from Burwood to Bondi Junction railway stations and stops at the International and Domestic terminals. It connects the eastern suburbs, Inner West and St George areas to the airport.[source?]Private shuttle buses also service the airport from the Sutherland Shire, Blue Mountains and Central Coast.
Road
Sydney Airport has road connections in all directions. Southern Cross Drive (M1), a motorway, is the fastest link with the city centre. The only other motorway, the M5 South Western Motorway(including the M5 East Freeway) links the airport with the south-western suburbs of Sydney. There is a ring road around the airport. General Holmes Drive has a tunnel under the main north-south runway and three taxiways as well as an aircraft viewing area. Inside the airport a part-ring road joins the Dome...
On 18 June 1950 a Douglas DC-3 of Ansett Airwayspreparing for take-off from Sydney's former Runway 22 hit and derailed a coal train on the railway line that crossed the runway. Only the co-pilot wa...On 30 November 1961, Ansett-ANA Flight 325, a Vickers Viscount, crashed into Botany Bay shortly after take-off. The starboard wing failed after the aircraft flew into a thunderstorm. All 15 people...On 1 December 1969, Boeing 707-321B N892PA of Pan Am Flight 812 overran the runway during take-off due to bird strikes. Number 2 engine was damaged and lost power. The takeoff was abandoned. The ai...On 21 February 1980, VH-AAV, a Beechcraft Super King Air took off from Sydney Airport and suffered an engine failure. The pilot flew the aircraft back to the Airport and attempted to land but crash...Sydney Tower Archived 2007-06-13 at the Wayback MachineSydney Airport Frequency and Airway Data Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine- Leased Commonwealth Airport
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Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport — colloquially Mascot Airport, Kingsford Smith Airport, or Sydney Airport — is an international airport in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, located 8 km (5 mi) south of the Sydney central business district, in the suburb of Mascot. The airport is owned by Sydney Airport Holdings. It is the primary airport serving Sydney and is a primary hub for Qantas, as ...
1 Rydges Sydney Airport, 8 Arrivals Court, Sydney International Airport ( in front of Terminal 1 ), ☏ +61 2 9313 2500, reservations_rydgessydneyairport@evt.com. The hotel is a 2-minute walk from the International Terminal T1 and includes a restaurant, bar and cafe in addition to a 24-hour gym.
Nov 8, 2019 · Each year, Sydney Airport handles 44 million passengersand the airport's chief executive, Geoff Culbert, predicts it will welcome its two billionth passenger by 2040. The estimate is complicated ...
