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The first bits of track have officially been laid on the future rail link to Western Sydney Airport.
— Catherine King MP (@CatherineKingMP) April 2, 2025
Whether you live in Sydney or Melbourne, we're putting in the work to get trains to your airport. pic.twitter.com/VyuY5jsrUS
Free 30 min frequency bus to Western Sydney Airport launched.
Somehow a 30 minute bus frequency plus waiting for a train transfer does not seem frequent enough?
Transport for NSW’s coordinator, Howard Collins, has stated in a press briefing that the new Airport bus route will have sweeper services, as the NSW transport has recently acquired “new electric buses.” (0:35).
Any increase in demand will be met with a swift increase in frequency to the bus route.
At least they are getting a bus service unlike Cairns, Wellcamp and Brisbane.
Bus routes to Western Sydney Airport. 60 minutes in-vehicle time, and then adding on 30 min frequency or so, gives a 90 minute trip.
It’s really bad frequency, so the selling point was “it’s better than nothing” 
If this were Perth, the bus would be every 15 min all day.
Apparently they will increase to every 30 min or more when the airport is in full swing. 60 mins is just an interim measure.
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We have an opening date confirmed for the new Western Sydney Airport with the first flight to be an Airbus A320 operated by Jetstar on a flight to the Gold Coast.
Freight operations by Qantas meanwhile are expected to commence late next month.
Currently only 4 Airlines have announced flights out of the new Nancy Bird Walton Airport, these being Jetstar, Qantas, Singapore Airlines and Air New Zealand.
Virgin Australia is still yet to announce whether they plan to launch flights out of Western Sydney but I assume they will definitely be looking into how the new airport performs demand wise.
From launch, Jetstar will operate up to 14 flights a week to Melbourne, four weekly flights to the Gold Coast and three weekly flights to Brisbane.
Qantas will commence services on March 28, 2027, operating four flights per week to Brisbane and Melbourne.
Daily flights to Changi via Singapore Airlines will start on November 23, 2026 and Air New Zealand will commence flights to Auckland on October 26, 2026.
I also speculate that Qantas and Jetstar in particular will open up even more destinations at least domestically and possibly even to New Zealand over coming years and also expect Virgin Australia to launch their own flights at some point.
However the new Metro connecting to St Mary’s will unfortunately not be ready when the Airport opens and possibly not even open until 2028. Metro or not, multiple bus routes (I think it’s 5 routes + maybe a free Airport shuttle) will service the airport from day one with frequencies of every half hour or less. These will be served by a fleet of new accessible electric buses. These have already been delivered and are currently in the road testing/bus driver familiarity training phase.
The Airport will also be serviced by the new M12 motorway and in the future, a new Aerotropolis called Bradfield will be built from the ground up as a local business centre (also to be serviced by the metro & local bus services), located conveniently close to the new airport. Over the next few decades hundreds of thousands of jobs could be created from this Airport and the surrounding developments combined which have already created tens of thousands of jobs during their construction.
