00:02Touchdown.
00:03But this A320 passenger jet only has a flight crew.
00:08It's the first to simulate commercial flights in large-scale testing at the new airport.
00:13There's a really seamless arrival today.
00:15It's exactly the reason why we do a test flight like this before we operate commercially and bring passengers in
00:20here.
00:21Thousands of volunteers posing as passengers have been breaking in the airport's systems since early August.
00:27I've been waiting 70 years for this to happen.
00:31I was a teenager when I first started talking about it.
00:34Some even skipped school to be here.
00:37My name is Aether. I'm seven years old.
00:40He's a massive avgeek and I thought what better way to get him out of school for a day than
00:46to bring him out here.
00:47The promise of the airport's small design is speed.
00:51The gates are close to the runway and the carousels are close to the car park.
00:55Rapid exit taxiways are designed to get planes off the runway in minutes.
01:00And this theme extends inside the airport too with a human-free check-in experience.
01:06Today, I'm a fake passenger on a fake flight to Brisbane.
01:10But in this airport, it doesn't matter where you're going because these kiosks are both airline and destination agnostic.
01:17Meaning you can walk up to any of them, print out your boarding pass, drop your bags and be on
01:22your way.
01:23Ironing out the kinks means emulating everything from checking in to boarding and the reverse.
01:29It's a very quick process. If they have to pick up their bags, we're looking for 10 to 15 minutes.
01:33Until the first real flight takes off on October 25th, it'll be all hands on deck at Western Sydney International.
01:40At the time that we're getting ready for a number of people from static cooperators.
01:40The second real flight is not just phenomenal.
01:41I'm an advanced user, you can see that people are moving the skunk in and out of the car park
01:41right now.
01:41So, if you can click to pause at the end of the car park, switch over to the car park
01:41and hold the car park, switch over to the car park.
01:41...and the car park and then we'll see where the truck is.
01:41So, if you can see the car park at the park, there are not as much low power.
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