After a year of ups and downs, Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport posted its strongest monthly passenger traffic since 2019 in December, ending 2023 with a 90.6% recovery compared to December 2019. The airport and its former CEO, Geoff Culbert, spent all year calling for local domestic airlines, like Qantas and Virgin Australia, to add more capacity, but in the end, it was the international airlines that came to the party.