Sydney Airport

Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport
IATA: SYD ICAO: YSSY
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Leased Commonwealth Airport
Operator	Sydney Airport Corporation Limited
Serves	Sydney
Location	Mascot, New South Wales, Australia
Hub for	Qantas Regional Express Airlines Virgin Australia Jetstar Airways Tigerair Australia
Elevation AMSL	21 ft / 6 m
Coordinates	33°56′46″S 151°10′38″E / 33.94611°S 151.17722°E / -33.94611; 151.17722
Website	sydneyairport.com.au
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 07/25 2,530 8,301 Asphalt 16L/34R 2,438 7,999 Asphalt 16R/34L 3,962 12,999 Asphalt
Statistics
Passengers (Jan to Dec 2016) 41,870,000[1] Aircraft movements (2013–2014) 327,190[2] Airfreight in tonnes (2012) 444,419[3] Economic & social impacts (2012) $13.2 billion & 146 thousand[4]
Source: AIP[5] Passenger and aircraft movements from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics[3]

Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport^[6] (also known as Kingsford-Smith Airport and Sydney Airport) (IATA: SYD, ICAO: YSSY) is in the suburb of Mascot in Sydney, Australia. It is Sydney's main airport, and is the main hub for Qantas, and a secondary hub for Virgin Australia and Jetstar Airways. It is next to Botany Bay. The airport has three runways, the "east–west", "north–south" and "third" runways.

Sydney Airport is one of the oldest airports in the world still in use.^[7] It is the busiest airport in Australia, handling 36 million passengers in 2010^[8] and 289,741 aircraft movements in 2009.^[9] It was the 28th busiest airport in the world in 2009. The airport is managed by Sydney Airport Corporation Limited (SACL). Flights from Sydney link with all parts of Australia. There are direct flights to 47 Australian cities and towns

1. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
2. ↑ Annual Report 2014 (PDF). Sydney Airport. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "Airport Traffic Data". Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics.^{[permanent dead link]}
4. ↑ "Sydney airport – Economic and social impacts". Ecquants. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
5. ↑ YSSY – SYDNEY/(Kingsford Smith) (PDF). AIP En Route Supplement from Airservices Australia, effective 08 November 2018
6. ↑ "Geographical Names Register Extract: Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
7. ↑ Fact Sheet Archived 2006-03-23 at the Wayback Machine Sydney Airport
8. ↑ Passenger Traffic 2009 FINAL Archived 2012-04-29 at the Wayback Machine Airports Council International
9. ↑ Sydney Airport – An Overview Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine Sydney Airport