Sydney’s Kingsford Smith airport has a bold plan to dominate air travel. Can new rival Western Sydney compete? | Transport

On the 25th anniversary of the Sydney Olympics, the airport – Sydney Kingsford Smith, who invited thousands of athletes and thousands of fans to the city, declared a plan to dominate competition.

The 2045 Master Plan of the private airport, released on Monday, aims to increase the annual passengers from 41 million to 72 million in 20 years. The airport described the planned construction as its largest expansion since 2000 matches.

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Scott Charlton, General Manager of the Airport, said that Kingsford Smith should compete with the new West Sydney Airport, which is planned to be opened in late 2026. He said the new airport targeted 82 million passengers a year until 2063.

But there are already worries about the viability of West Sydney, at least not because of uncertainty about transportation connections. So what does Kingsford Smith’s plan mean to the new contestant? Here are the winners and the losers in Sydney’s airspace competition.

Plans

Sydney Airport Draft 2045 Master Plan – Open for December – 36.4 million international passengers and 36.2 million domestic and regional passengers by 2045.

The freight will grow more than 1.4 million tons per year, more than double current levels.

The plan is centralized around the connection of two local terminals T2 and T3, adding 12 international gates to create a region where all regional, domestic and overseas services are separated. Two more will be added to the T1 international terminal.

In the meantime, Western Sydney Airport’s 2045 Master Plan – subjected to government approval later – by 2033, a total of 10 million passengers and 19.3 million by 2045.

Navlu volumes are expected to increase to approximately 547,000 tons a year until 2045, and long -term estimates are 1.8m tons per year.

The domestic and international services of the new airport will operate from a single terminal and at least from only one track to the 2050s.

Winners

Nader Naderpajouh Sydney University, the President of the Project Management School, says that competition is a good thing for travelers and airlines. “Now we have an airport… We force the other airport to improve and expand.”

Sydney Airport’s passenger numbers are estimated to increase by 75% by 2045, while the number of flights will increase by 34%.

Mathew Hounsell, a transportation expert in Sydney at the University of Technology, means that passenger goals will be achieved by increasing the passenger density and burden, that is to ie more clogging and use of more people on large -bodied aircraft ”. This may mean more competitive wages than the airport, but don’t expect too much leg gap.

Sydney’s main plan also confirms the changes in the north-south runway to host the 24-hour runway of Western Sydney Airport. Sydney Airport’s three slopes are subject to curfew at 11.00-16:00.

Hounsell said that the curfew can mean small gains for Western Sydney, including low -cost carrier flights to holiday destinations and the hubs in Southeast Asia and some international loads. However, the distance of the airport to the CBD means that Sydney airport cannot make a notch on the “cash cow” routes for Brisbane, Canberra and Melbourne.

Flight Road changes, the route, which was taken by planes on the north-south track of Sydney Airport, offers suburbs on the west in the west, such as Dulwich Hill and Ashfield, in the west and offer CBD suburbs at the expense of others.

Hounsell, the airport’s noise reduction strategy, says that the promise of quieter aircraft such as the airport, such as the Airbus A350, is only a “relative measure”, “a little relaxation”. The main plan of the airport still refers to the limit of 80 movements per hour, which is departure every 45 seconds.

Loser

Hounsell said Western Sydney Airport lost from its opponent’s ambitious main plan and described it to its new opponent as “kneeling”.

Sydney Airport refused to comment on the potential impact of the 2045 target on its opponent. Western Sydney Airport spokesman said that his goals remained the same and that the position of “Sydney’s only 24 -hour International Age Pass” meant that new operators are “well positioned”.

Only four airlines – Qantas, Jetstar, Singapore Airlines and Air New Zealand – so far confirmed their plans to use the new airport. Hounsell, 80 million passengers target when it comes to the airport may need to “get a cold pill,” he said.

Naderpajouh says that no airport’s plan does not take into account the impact of the climate crisis on the number of passengers who want to travel.

Hounsell shows that the airports do not take into account the effects of rising home and energy prices and stagnant wages on passenger demand, and the addition of high targets, including pollution, shows kimse no one thinks of climate change in this sector ”.

When the impact of high passenger targets on the climate was asked, the spokesman of Sydney Airport was postponed to the climate flexibility strategy in his main plan, which determined his plan to obtain a net zero emission in his operations until 2030.

Western Sydney Airport Spokesman said the new Terminal has thousands of solar panels as well as recycled materials. It has a sustainable aviation fuel and the infrastructure to support electric ground service tools for the coming years ”.

Naderpajouh says that the influence of Sydney Airport’s pressure on the pressure of the Airport and on a new West Sydney Airport. “Over time, largely on the budget on the budget” indicates the opera house.

“When you look after 50 years, a great success not only for Sydney, but also for the whole Australia”.