Western Sydney Airport (WSI) Discussion

[ANstar]

Interesting its a day flight to WSI and night flight from WSI.

Presumably to take advantage of no curfew and a different offering to SYD.

 

[dajop]

Interesting its a day flight to WSI and night flight from WSI.

Presumably to take advantage of no curfew and a different offering to SYD.

Was always going to be that schedule. Mirrors flights that have operated out of MEL and BNE for years. Provides robust connections to all sort of places with 0505 arrival.

 

[kamchatsky]

With a new flight from November onwards, it means potentially wide open J awards tomorrow, potentially including all peak seasons including Christmas and New Year.

Time to redeem some awards!

 

[AIRwin]

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.

Looks like booking was originally supposed to have opened even before 18 March?

 

[Saab34]

Only a matter of time before the low costs jump in.

 

[serfty]

Time to redeem some awards!

I'd need an award flight to get to WSI ...

 

[AIRwin]

I'd need an award flight to get to WSI ...

MEL-SIN-WSI?

 

[kamchatsky]

I'd need an award flight to get to WSI ...

Book SQ award flight first, then book domestic flight at later date....

 

[moa999]

Only a matter of time before the low costs jump in.

Depends. Other than for some possible startup costs, are the ongoing costs any cheaper than SYD. Remember this has been built as a 2nd full service airport not a low cost operation.

 

[HS-TQE]

Only a matter of time before the low costs jump in.

QZ from DPS to SYD a more likely candidate. Indonesia still has capacity on their side of the bilateral (even though they are disadvantaged against the Australian O&D.

With the remote stands on both sides of the terminal QZ could easily save money on aerobridge gate usage.

 

[kamchatsky]

QZ from DPS to SYD a more likely candidate. Indonesia still has capacity on their side of the bilateral (even though they are disadvantaged against the Australian O&D.

With the remote stands on both sides of the terminal QZ could easily save money on aerobridge gate usage.

I think JQ will fly DPS, and will be far more popular than QZ.

VJ could be another candidate due to WSI's closeness to Cabramatta.

 

[justinbrett]

I think JQ will fly DPS, and will be far more popular than QZ.

VJ could be another candidate due to WSI's closeness to Cabramatta.

As it stands the Air Services Agreement with Indonesia will count WSI as part of Sydney (It counts AVV as Melbourne) so there’s no availability for Australian carriers.

 

[elanshin]

I fully expect Zipair to be looking seriously at WSI to coincide with then getting more planes. They can seriously give JQ (and even QF) a run for their money with a real J seat on LCC fares to Japan.

 

[transpactraveller]

Redeye to SIN
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Singapore Airlines launching flights to Western Sydney Airport from November 2026

Singapore Airlines will be the first international carrier at the new Western Sydney Airport, with daily Airbus A350 flights commencing in November 2026.

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and a 10:20pm arrival into Western Sydney.... might just make it into the city by midnight if you're first off the plane, probably no chance by train though.

Unless the fare is cheap enough to offset the expensive taxi/Uber to get out there, we'll stick to SYD.

Good for people who live out that way though. For many this will be almost as inconvenient as flying into NTL. Or going to AVV instead of MEL.

 

[jase05]

and a 10:20pm arrival into Western Sydney.... might just make it into the city by midnight if you're first off the plane, probably no chance by train though.

Unless the fare is cheap enough to offset the expensive taxi/Uber to get out there, we'll stick to SYD.

Good for people who live out that way though. For many this will be almost as inconvenient as flying into NTL. Or going to AVV instead of MEL.

Might be of benefit to those who want to connect from the early LHR flights into SIN or from a whole stack of Asian ports.
Obviously won’t be everyone’s cup of tea but I do think people will be surprised at how popular it is

 

[http_x92]

Hoping JQ has some DPS or NRT routes planned. Bali speaks for itself but Japan has become a very popular place for tourism these days. Maybe SGN as well considering the demographics in that area.

But, I guess they want to see how WSI patronage is before that...

 

[mbe1510]

Given WSI is meant to have the third largest catchment area in the country behind Sydney and Melbourne and ahead of every other capital city in the country, I'm sure there will be decent demand for these flights particularly given how popular Singapore is. Lot of family travel no doubt between WSI and India/Asia hubs.

If priced $50-$100 cheaper in economy, it will appeal to the budget traveller who overseas picks flights from Gatwick or Stanstead in London.

 

[TomVexille]

I expect the SQ flight will be very popular with the multinational Data Centre corporations with site in Eastern Creek and Kemps Park

 

[kookaburra75]

There's also the Canberra market. A lot of us the Murrays bus to get to Sydney International and back, to avoid paying the "Canberra Tax" on CBR-SYD flights and to avoid delays with fog or cancelled flights (which happens all too often). If Murrays set up a similar service to WSI, then that would work for us. The daytime flight would be a bonus.

 

[markis10]

I expect the SQ flight will be very popular with the multinational Data Centre corporations with site in Eastern Creek and Kemps Park

Why? Data centres need power, water and fibre connectivity with trunk land points such as broadway in Sydney, they tend not to have a need for much staff or airports. Next DC has 200 staff for its 30 odd centres, Airtrunk 400 odd. Most of those are cable guys who don’t go anywhere.