This Friday has seen a forecast total of 82,779 passengers transit through the airport, a record driven by both the AFL and NRL finals and the start of school holidays in NSW. Around three quarters of the passengers are domestic travellers.
Dubbed the “most significant transformation of the departure hall since the 1970s”, the project will see the installation of common-use self-service kiosks and automated bag drops to replace around 60 existing check-in desks by the end of the decade.
The systems from global technology firm Amadeus are being constructed at Micron Manufacturing, which is based at Glendenning near Blacktown in western Sydney. Once the consoles and kiosks are complete, they will be fitted with Amadeus hardware and link…