While WSI itself is a Commonwealth project with no involvement from the NSW Department of Transport, Jo Haylen as Minister has overseen transport links to the airport site including its metro, which is slated to open alongside the airport in late 2026.
Australia’s largest international gateway saw 11 million passengers in total across the three months to December 2024, up five per cent on the same period in 2023 but only 94.4 per cent of the fourth quarter of 2019.