Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) will welcome its first passengers on 25 October 2026.
WSI is Australia’s brand-new full-service airport operating curfew-free to deliver international, domestic and freight services.
The airport’s delivery has taken years of planning and construction, as well as a year of testing. It will have the capacity to serve up to 10 million passengers annually, with scalable expansion to meet future demand.
“In 2011, I commissioned a joint study with the NSW Government into how we’d deliver a second airport,” said Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister of Australia. “I said at the time, ‘it wasn’t a matter of if Sydney needed a new airport, but when.’
“Fifteen years later, this new airport is almost ready to open.”
Jetstar will operate WSI’s first ever commercial passenger flight, with an Airbus A320 set to take off from WSI to the Gold Coast at 11am on 25 October.
From launch, Jetstar will operate up to 14 flights a week between WSI and Melbourne, in addition to four weekly flights to the Gold Coast and three weekly flights to Brisbane.
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Qantas will commence services from WSI from 28 March 2027, operating four flights per week to Brisbane and fourth flights per week to Melbourne, using QantasLink Embraer E190 aircraft.
Freight operations will commence earlier on Sunday 26 July, and Qantas Freight will begin regular flights to and from WSI the following evening.
These regular flights were secured by the Federal Government in June 2023, as Qantas and Jetstar became the first airlines to announce they would fly in and out of Sydney’s new airport.
They will be joined by Air New Zealand, who will commence flights to Auckland on 26 October and Singapore Airlines, whose daily flights to Changi start on 23 November 2026.
Western Sydney’s new 24-hour airport is the centrepiece of the Federal Government’s near $18 billion investment in Western Sydney, including the future Sydney Metro Airport rail connection and significant road upgrades to nearby Elizabeth Drive, Fifteenth Avenue and Mamre Road.
This investment builds upon benefits already delivered through the recent opening of the M12 Motorway.
