Western Sydney Airport (WSI) Discussion

[Chatswood]

With regards to all the naysayers talking about “well it’s just a commitment, the airlines haven’t confirmed they’ll fly from WSI”, look at what’s popped up on the SQ desktop website. Special launch fares coming soon?

The link leads to a 404 error for now but it looks like it’s ready to go live soon.

 

[LionKing]

With regards to all the naysayers talking about “well it’s just a commitment, the airlines haven’t confirmed they’ll fly from WSI”, look at what’s popped up on the SQ desktop website. Special launch fares coming soon?

The link leads to a 404 error for now but it looks like it’s ready to go live soon.

Hopefully that'll be a late night departure which Sydney desperately needs.

 

[AIRwin]

Hopefully that'll be a late night departure which Sydney desperately needs.

Wonder if flight number will also be SQ2X1/SQ2X2?

 

[kamchatsky]

It would be ironic if the first international flight takes off before first domestic flight at WSI. But hey good news for Western Sydney.

It has to be a midnight departure.

 

[jase05]

It would be ironic if the first international flight takes off before first domestic flight at WSI. But hey good news for Western Sydney.

It has to be a midnight departure.

Domestic are still planned to start first but who knows. At our most recent info session we were told QF/JQ are ready and that both SQ and NZ will start on the same day as each other not long after.

 

[Saab34]

QF/JQ are ready

Which QF subsidiary are operating these?

 

[jase05]

Which QF subsidiary are operating these?

I’m not sure as the details were pretty basic.
But from what was presented it seems the group are looking at around 30-40 flights per day when it opens and hopefully 70-80 flights per day within 6 months. JQ would have around 70% of those initially. I did query a few things that would benefit my job and QF will run the E190’s out of there to start.
I don’t know what QF’s fleet management looks like and don’t know of other services will be affected to cover it

 

[Chatswood]

It would be ironic if the first international flight takes off before first domestic flight at WSI. But hey good news for Western Sydney.

It has to be a midnight departure.

It seems sensible for a midnight departure given SQ seems to have a bank of early morning flights arriving in SIN (5-6am) from BNE, MEL, PER, and DRW at present.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a morning departure ex-SIN at a time similar to the current SQ211 which arrives at 9pm and sits overnight in SYD.