It’s great news that Western Sydney Nancy-Bird Walton International Airport (WSI) is about to welcome passenger services. The famed aviatrix would be proud of the state-of-the-art facility that bears her name.
It’s been a long time in the making. A federal Senate select committee first considered Badgerys Creek as a site for Sydney’s second airport in 1969. Fast forward to 1986, when land acquisition began, and it was June 1992 when Aviation Minister Bob Collins turned the first sod at the new airport, due to be operational by 1995.
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